Comments on: Baresite Makes Every Site Mobile

By: Prashant

Prashant — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:39:17 +0000

this kind of transcoding removes advertisements also ? this is a bad proposition to content publishers . is there a way for a publisher to opt out ?

By: godie

godie — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:57:20 +0000

Hi Guys,

Google does this already; it can translate a site from one format to another. Here is what I did to translate my blog to WML for mobile browsing:

http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcorruptedpartition.blogspot.com%2F&_gwt_pg=2&hl=tl&mrestrict=wml&q=corruptedpartition&source=m&output=wml&site=search

then I made a shorter URL using tinyurl.com:

http://tinyurl.com/ts7me

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:51:39 +0000

Tried it and like it a lot. The favorite function and most visited function make browsing much easier. Pretty cool. Like Neil I wonder how iPhone will compare to this.

By: kaveh

kaveh — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:16:27 +0000

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! among many other 3rd party services provide adaptive rendering technology that help render regular websites on mobiles. When no feeds are available, this service does very poorly. So, I am not sure displaying feeds is an acceptable alternative, given these more sophisticated solutions.

Check out http://www.wsdot.wa.gov, for example. They do have a mobile site, hidden among many links on their site. I would expect this service to pick up on that and show that, but instead, it tries to render the website for my mobile and the result is of much lower quality than that of AR solutions such the ones mentioned above or InfoGin, Novarra and alike.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:01:55 +0000

I’m hoping that services like these won’t be necessary once the iPhone pushes mobile browsing into desktop levels of functionality. Here’s hoping.

The name doesn’t seem so bad to me – they are making sites ‘bare’ after all.

By: Jimmy Calderon

Jimmy Calderon — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:28:04 +0000

This is very handy. On my BlackBerry sites load very fast and are presented in a nice way. Before this there was no way I could browse some sites, because they messed up the screen and took ages to load.

I especially like that it automatically detects feeds. When I enter mobilecrunch.com, it recognizes the feed and displays it instead of trying to display the normal contents.

Strange name though!