20 EASY TOOLS FOR PROFESSIONALS WITH LOW BANDWIDTH
In developing countries, one of the major challenges confronting Library and Information Professionals (LIPs) is the low bandwidth. Sometime you want to do a simple search and you just discovered that the Internet connection is vey low. I have discovered over time that some websites and search engines have portable sites specifically meant for mobile platforms. The most fascinating ones listed below.For instance, if you want a quick Facebook page, try Facebook Lite or mobile. Seach engines like Google mobile and Clusty are examples of effective search engines on the go.
- Answers.com http://mobile.answers.com/ All-in-one encyclopedia, manuals and dictionaries
- Ask.com http://m.ask.com/
- Bing http://m.bing.com/
- Clusty.com http://m.clusty.com/ Great for viewing results in stripped down format
- CNET http://m.cnet.com/
- CNN http://m.cnn.com/
- Facebook Mobile http://m.facebook.com/
- Facebook Lite http://lite.facebook.com/
- Flickr http://m.flickr.com/
- Google Books http://books.google.com/m Read free public domain books
- Google News www.google.com/m/news/i Access personalized news for Ghana, India, Ireland, Italia, Kenya, México, Namibia, Nederland, New Zealand, Nigeria..
- Google Images http://images.google.com/m/
- Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/ RSS Reader
- Google Web http://www.google.com/m
- Gmail.com http://m.gmail.com/
- Making of America Books http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/
- Netvibes http://m.netvibes.com/tabs RSS Reader
- Technorati http://m.technorati.com/ Search the blogs
- USA Today http://m.usatoday.com/
- Yahoo Mobile (including Yahoo Mail) http://m.yahoo.com/ Right click on the list and open in a new window. Let me know how useful you have found it.