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Why choose Mowser for mobile transcoding over Google?

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If you've ever used a mobile phone or PDA to surf the web, you've probably noticed that some sites render better than others on a small screen. That's because some web developers design special mobile versions of their pages. But there are also several web-based services that "mobilize" web sites by stripping some data and presenting you with a stripped down version of a web page.

Probably the most popular web-site mobilizing services are Google Mobile and Skweezer. Mowser is a less popular service, but it might be the best of the bunch. We first checked out Mowser earlier this year, but a recent article from Mowser creator Russel Beattie made us take another look.

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Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Mobile Minute

MoFuse: Mobilize your website in 60 seconds

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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:
  1. Create an account
  2. Name your site
  3. Enter the RSS feed
  4. 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]

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