Wombat Mobile I should be coding or sleeping instead of this...

We just pushed out a cool feature at Mowser today called Mowser Shortcuts, combined with a cool Twitter mashup. The site (http://mowser.com) already dealt with one of the most painful parts of websurfing on a phone (sites not formatting properly), but now it helps with the problem of long URLs on a phone.

Here's an example:
1) When I take the train into work, one of the sites I visit on my phone is http://www.thatsgoodknowledge.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3 , a forum about a local morning sports radio talk show.


The site is pretty rough on my phone, though. There's a lot of <table><tr><td> formatting and the page is around 75-80kb.

2) Passing it though Mowser removes much makes it cleaner and chops it up to make it easier to view on the phone. http://mowser.com/web?url=http://www.thatsgoodknowledge.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3

 

3) That's a long url, though, and if I wanted to SMS that to one of my co-workers riding the train in from Dublin, it's unlikely to happen. This is where the TinyURL-like Mowser Shortcut can be created:
http://mowser.com/ek0ux <=> http://mowser.com/web?url=http://www.thatsgoodknowledge.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
(plus, you can also submit it directly to your twitter status :)