Mowser is a Command Line for Mobile Browsing

Mobile-friendly versions of big web sites are becoming a lot more common. Most news sites have them, as do the portals. Edelman too has one that's on a dot-mobi URL (one of our clients). Still, lots of sites don't have a mini companions.

Enter Mowser. The site, which is run by mobile guru Russ Beattie, is a great home page for your your phone. You can enter any URL and it will shrink it down for you. Even better, if the site you want to view has a feed it will auto-detect it and present it in a very clean, efficient way that's perfect for phones. For example, here's Lifehacker as viewed through Mowser. A list of popular feeds can be found here. There's also a directory of mobile sites.

The best feature, however, is Mowser's command-line interface. Preface your searches with special keywords like "am" for Amazon, "gs" for Google or "wi" for Wikipedia and Mowser will present a stripped down version of the page - like this one. I would love Mowser to adopt open keywords similar to what Yahoo has or adopt social keywords like YubNub. Check out Mowser.

Comments

[smith]

That profits matter. That may have been the case for several years after the dot-com explosion, but venture capitalists are hungry for deals now. And, in light of recent high-priced acquisitions (for example, Skype), it makes more sense for startups to lose money and go for growth--not build a stable, profitable business

[akbarali]

hi how are you doing good anyway yes i got your mail but the problem is when i want to open your some of site so that,s dosen,t open i don,t what,s wrong anyway take care have a good evening by.

[Mike]

Steve,

Edelman's client is dotmobi NOT dot MOBIL :)
I'm sure your Edelman counterparts got a good chuckle

My suggestion is that Edelman needs to help end users (i.e. UPS) launch dot MOBI sites.

[Kevin Perkins, CEO Greenlight Wireless]

Something else to consider before you use Mowser...

http://kevinperkins.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/mowing-your-content-down-with-mowser/