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BBC's h2g2 Goes Mobile - Again

Posted by timothy on from the as-well-it-ought dept.

zaktheduck writes "According to a recent press release, in anticipation of the new movie and the h2g2 website's sixth birthday, the BBC have relaunched the long-shelved h2g2 Mobile service. The new version of the popular community website allows access to the 7000+ and growing edited guide entries from PDAs, and smartphones. H2g2 had a WAP service back in 2001, aptly named "h2g2 on the Move", but was cancelled when the company faced financial trouble and was purchased by the BBC. Here's a copy of the old promotion page for the service."

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  1. Re:Sorry, but no one cares by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 4, Interesting

    h2g2 could have been great, but Wikipedia and e2 have it beat both in size and content quality. 7000 entries is nothing.

    So should I throw away all my reference books and keep just one encyclopaedia?

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  2. Useful for hhgg2xml by Jaffa · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Interesting. This could be useful for my own hhgg2xml converts H2G2 articles into a variety of formats, including XML and TomeRaider - which is useful for carrying it around with you on a PDA without network access.

    I'll have to look more closely at this new version to see if it can be parsed more easily.