You know how it is with the mobile web. You break out your smartphone with the intention of having a bit of a browse on the way to work, but everything takes so much *longer* when you are fiddling with a keypad and by the time you have negotiated the search engine to find what you are looking for the train has already pulled into the station and the cleaners are ushering you out on to the platform.
Joey is one of those ideas that sound so obvious in retrospect - a sort of del.icio.us meets pbwiki aimed at streamlining mobile browsing.
If you spot something interesting while browsing the web at your desktop you can use a Firefox extension to grab the content (be it a whole page, snippet of text or some multimedia) and it will be saved, with a suitable title, on your Joey feed. Point your phone's browser at the Joey site, log in and you will be able to access cached versions of the data.
Its a bit rough around the edges at the moment, but I'm going to give it a try and see how it works in practice. If it makes extended browsing on a Nokia N73 enjoyable then we may have a winner.
There is a YouTube demo film here.
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