Stay Mobile In San Diego
Posted by victor on Mar 31, 2008 in Mobile 2.0, Mobile Websites, Mobilize
This San Diego mini mobile mashup has a Ron Burgundy style retro logo. That looks hand drawn to me, almost looks like a colored pencil sketch. I like the logo and the mobile site, it appears to be ad supported via AdMob and they’ve got some mobile community staples like:
- Mobile Search
- Traffic
- Directions
- Stock
- Current Weather Conditions
This site has one other killer feature that you won’t find on most other mobile community sites. Any ideas what that might be? Here’s a hint.
Mobile Surf Reports! Awesome idea. These guys have a mini Surf Report Drill Down, check this out.
Drilling into North San Diego gets you the Oceanside report.
It looks like the surf reports are actually widgets integrated from Surfline.com. I couldn’t see that getting mashed in real time. Same goes for the Traffic Reports, that’s got to be getting mixed in on the server-side in the backend. And though it looks like the Weather stuff is coming across the wire from Microsoft it’s not, I believe that’s the phishing url service check that the browser makes.
Hopefully, someone from sdca.mobi will see that above screenshot and get themselves a favicon file to fix that 404 faux pas.
mobienthusiast | Mar 31, 2008 | Reply
Great analysis of the site – I really like the screen shots. SDCA is a great site, too – thank you for profiling it.
Chris | Apr 1, 2008 | Reply
I love this site….Soooo useful for people on the go in San Diego….Its just got stuff we need – right there, when we need it
Shaun Morton | Apr 1, 2008 | Reply
I am the designer of the site. The weather is from the Weather Channel and the traffic reports are from Yahoo. Thanks for the complements.
Shaun Morton
http://boroughs.mobi