Santa Tracking Site

It is not Monday, and this is not a mobile site! But it is Christmas and this is a great site.

As your may be aware NORAD is the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization responsible for the aerospace and maritime defense of the United States and Canada, they use highly sophisticated tracking equipment to monitor the airspace above Canada, USA and the North Pole. It was the monitoring of the North Pole that led to the annual tracking of Santa. And before you ask, yes this is the real NORAD. Check out the offical NORAD Santa Tracking site and share it with the kids.

Merry Christmas, normal service will be resumed in the New Year

Looking at mobile sites on your PC

It is often the case that you want to review a mobile site from your PC. There are a number of ways that you can do this, but probably the easiest is using an emulator in a web browser, as you can then also easily grab screen shots of the service.

The emulator that I normally use is the one provided by dotMobi. As you can see in the screen shot below it frames the site in a handset image.

Have a try on these sites:

Google

Facebook

And finally, given the bad weather you may find the weather.co.uk site useful.

Do you use another emulator? Please share via comments below.

Time to spread some Christmas Cheer

This week we have a site that you can share with customers, suppliers and friends. We have made a Christmas micro site, with a variety of seasonal content available for download, and best of all its all free!

To get to the site simply text WIN to 83738 (standard text charge), you will then get a WAP push to allow access to the site. Have an explore, and try some of the content.

We are planning to send a Christmas MMS message to our customers and suppliers, wishing them a Happy Christmas and giving them a link to access to this site - if you would like to have your customers and suppliers included please send your contacts mobile numbers through to me, please send in excel ideally in a +447 format.

For non-UK mobiles and iPhones please browse to http://bit.ly/winxmas

Radio 2 Foodie Club

No excuses this week, as this one is simple and free, and best of all its run by WIN. If your not in the UK try signing up on a test SIM in the office.

As you are probably aware we run a number of services for the BBC, including text in services for radio stations. We also run SMS News alerts, and text clubs and its a text club that you can try this week.

The Radio 2 Chris Evans foodie club is extremely popular. To join simply text Food to 88291 and receive a weekly link to the Radio 2 mobile site with a creative recipe. That's it! So give it a go.



If you want to end the service simpy text STOP to 88291.