MoFuse: Mobilize your website in 60 seconds

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MoFuse: Mobilize your website in 60 seconds

by Brad Linder Nov 6th 2007

Ever run across a website that just looks like crap on a mobile web browser? Download Squad is optimized for viewing on a small screen, but many web sites aren't. Sure, you could spend a lot of time tweaking a site's style sheet, but there's an easier way.

MoFuse lets you make a mobile version of pretty much any site. The entire process basically boils down to:

Create an account
Name your site
Enter the RSS feed
Tweak if you like

In other words, it takes about a minute to create a custom, mobile version of any web site. While the service is great for web publishers (WordPress users can even add auto-redirect tags to their site so that users on mobile browsers will be sent to the MoFuse version), you can also use it to make mobile versions of websites that you don't own. Tired of struggling to read your favorite site on your Treo? Just mobilize it.

But there's one potential problem with that last part. MoFuse also lets you monetize mobile sites by placing AdSense or AdMob content on mobile pages. If you're placing advertising on your own site, that's great. But if you're putting ads on a site registered to someone else and then publicizing and profiting from the feed? Well, that could cause some legal issues, don't you think?

[via Mashable]

Tags: mobile-web, mobilize, MoFuse

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jon Aizen said 1:47PM on 11-06-2007

This kind of stuff is cool and very useful. However, if your site doesn't have RSS it leaves you out in the cold. You can use Dapper (http://www.dapper.net/) to create an RSS feed for a site that doesn't have one and then use MoFuse to make the mobile version.

ranova said 1:50PM on 11-06-2007

or you can use google mobile and do this...

gg42 said 7:59AM on 11-07-2007

Nothing new. I've been doing this with Winksite (http://winksite.com) for years.

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