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Yellowpages.com Launches New Web App

Posted October 30, 2007 11:00 AM by Jovan Washington
Categories: Announcements 

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Yellowpages.com has announced the launch of its new web application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

This application will allow the iPhone to find local businesses and services by typing in a search term, category and location, and provides additional details such as user ratings, driving directions, and mapping.

The iPhone application is pretty neat. I know we have Google Maps built into the phone, but this application is cool to. Plus it is new, and we all like cool, new stuff, right?

The application was designed specifically for the iPhone/iPod Touch, so it will resize to whatever position you hold the phone. You can start using it today, just by visiting Yellowpages.com. Of course it is free.

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  1. you test this shit before you write about it?  the mapping sucks, it wont give me directions and the functionality just isn’t there.  good review though!

    Posted by mike on October 30, 2007 11:54 AM

  2. This isn’t an application. It’s a mobile website yellowpages.com launched, that is accessible from the iphone’s safari browser, and is designed to work specifically for the iphone and ipod touch interfaces.

    Posted by tim on October 30, 2007 2:23 PM

  3. that is basically what all iPhone apps are Tim…

    Posted by Sarah on October 30, 2007 5:17 PM

  4. Thanks! Mapping was not working to well for me either. It works fine now though. Perhaps they were experiencing high volumes of visitors. First day launches are rarely flawless.

    Jovan

    Posted by Jovan on October 30, 2007 5:25 PM

  5. Yes, but this is more a mobile website than an application. Calling something an application implies that it is a program uploaded to the device and accessible from the home screen (particularly when compared to Google Maps which is an app planted on the home screen).

    There are currently “jailbreak” apps available for unlocked iPhones and in early ‘08 we’ll see lots of third party applications when Apple releases its SDK for legit (allowed by apple) open source development. Then we’ll see lots of apps.

    Until then, development resides on the mobile web and requires users to navigate to a site, rather than plant an application on the home screen. Quite different in user experience. And from a product penetration standpoint it also raises a barrier to adoption the minute you make users push a bunch of buttons and type in a URL in order to access mobile search features.

    So again, very different and this distinction should be made clear or it easily causes confusion on what this product actually is.

    Posted by tim on October 31, 2007 12:37 AM

  6. Follow up comment: I noticed the title of the post says “web app” don’t know if that was changed or if i missed that the first time. In any case that clears it up and i apologize for confusion. Thanks.

    Posted by tim on October 31, 2007 12:39 AM

  7. Jeez, don’t you folks read Apple’s web site?  All iPhone-optimized sites are referred to as ‘web applications’ or ‘web apps’.  Just go to www.apple.com/webapps if you don’t believe me.  They’re all Web 2.0 applications—so, yes, they qualify as applications, but they’re web-based.

    Posted by Bryan on October 31, 2007 11:04 AM

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