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 (http://mobifymedia.com) is a leading mobile web company providing products for publishers, ad networks and e-commerce retailers. [more]
Rob Lewis
Rob is the President of Techvibes Media and Editor in Chief of Techvibes.com.
His diverse background includes stints with 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.
