Over the weekend, Mobify.Me - a hosted mobile transcoding service - launched its Open Beta at the IxDA's Interaction'09 conference in Vancouver.
Mobify.Me promises to provide a quick way to optimize existing websites for mobile access without installing any new frameworks or writing code. Anybody with a basic knowledge of CSS can "mobify" a site in order to improve its accessibility on mobile. In a nutshell, you can choose which elements of your site are important to a mobile visitor and optimize those while minimizing elements that are bandwidth hogs or less relevant.
Mobify.Me is a product of Vancouver-based Handi Mobility. They've used some of the technology that has been tried and tested in past mobile projects they've executed for clients - an iPhone App & mobile site for TransLink and a mobile feedback feature for Global TV.
The Mobify.Me service is following the "freemium" model - a free basic service and a paid upgraded service with premium features for higher traffic sites.
Techvibes is excited to be a Mobify.Me launch partner - be sure to check out our mobified site at m.techvibes.com.
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Mobify is the leading mobile web platform for publishing & e-commerce. [more]
Rob Lewis
Rob is the President of Techvibes Media Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of Techvibes.com.
His diverse background includes stints in International Trade Finance, Web Development, and Enterprise Software and he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Simon Fraser University.
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