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.