Link dump for April 12, 2006

On the “mobile web” and contextual relevance

Lawrence.com goes mobile, and does an amazingly kick-ass job of it. As Croft explains on his blog: “So what’s on the mobile site? Five things. Just five. We’ve parred it down to things we think people will really want to do on their cell phone or similar device, rather than simply reformatting all of our content.” [Via Stylegala]

Text Fields

The latest builds of WebKit means you can style text fields. [Via Stylegala]

Mobile Device UI Design

Brian Fling breaks it down in this post covering the some of the problems he sees in the current state of Mobile Device UI Design.

The MySpace Economy

Some enterprising folks are figuring out ways to cash in on MySpace’s popularity.

Search users ‘stop at page three’

Or why search engine optimization is important to your marketing mission. [Via LifeHacker; Related: Search engine optimization secrets revealed! and This Boring Headline Is Written for Google]

The Down Side of Slashdot

Alternet Tech columnist Analee Newitz discusses sexism in the geek world.