Mobilizing your Blog with Feed-Mate

FeedM8 (feed-mate) is a whole new way to enjoy mobile web browsing. You can now get your favorite blogs or feed-enabled websites on your mobile device in the good manner. This means you get all the popular sites, top news, social networks, sports, celebrity and weather updates all on your mobile phone anytime and anywhere. The content is designed for your mobile phone and it is optimized for mobile access, so it is fast and uses smart data transfer technique and little device resources.

There are a few ways to get started with FeedM8 as a feed reader.
1) Go to m.feedm8.com on your phone’s browser. Shortcuts are accepted for fast search. Simply choose from the top picks under "CHK IT OUT" or type what you’re looking for in "WRU L%KN 4?" (i.e. What are you looking for?)
2) Go to www.feedm8.com on your desktop PC. Choose one of the featured websites or enter your own. Type in your phone number when prompted and you will receive a FeedM8 link by SMS.
3) Add the button “My Mobile” (presented on the developer’s web site) to your bookmarks as follows, depending on your browser type:

- Internet Explorer: Right-click the button, and choose "Add to favorites."
- Firefox: Drag the button above into your Bookmarks Toolbar
- Opera: Right-click the button above, choose "Bookmark Link"

To send a website you’re browsing to you mobile, click the "Send to My Mobile" shortcut you’ve just added.

Currently the following operators are supported in US and Canada:
US - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Nextel, Alltel, Metro PCS, Helio
Canada - Rogers, Bell, Fido, Telus, Virgin Mobile, Sasktel, MTS

Developers Web site: http://www.feedm8.com/web/faq_reader

The following detailed video tutorial will instruct you on how to prepare your and configure your blog to use the FeedM8 features, allowing readers to access it with ease on their iPhone, PDA or cell phones.

Mobilizing your Blog

Create Free Mobile Version of your Blog and Monetize it with MoFuse

Using smartphones and other mobile devices for Internet search is new and growing trend of the Modern World. Blogosphere is adopting quickly, and there are multiple opportunities for the bloggers to create specific mobile versions for their blogs to make easier for readers to access the data and improve readability. The new service MoFuse is offering free and nice solution for all blog owners to bring their blogs to the portable media in the suitable format. Authors claim that it is not the only reason for opening your account at MoFuse. They list some additional points, that at some extent interacts each other and make this effort more valuable:

• Making your readers happy... People want to read your blog on the go!
• Getting new readers... MoFuse will help to promote your mobile blog which will increase traffic.
• Making some money... Mobile ads will provide you with an additional revenue channel from your blog!
• Getting smarter... Our analytics let you see information about your mobile visitors.
• Getting going... More and more of your readers will want your content on their mobile devices!

Signing up to MoFuse is incredibly easy. All you need to do is enter your email and a password and you’re good to go. Creation of 5 mobile blogs and adding mobile badges to them took no more than 10 minutes of my time.

The dashboard is very easy to navigate and the FAQ is pretty good. The first thing you need to do is add your blog feed. All you need to do is add your blog URL and decide what mofuse domain you want (for this blog, I chose a nice address http://blogging.mofuse.mobi/). It’s possible to change this name at a later date as long as the keyword hasn’t been taken away.
After establishing your mobile site, make additional step to monetize it through our revenue sharing program. MoFuse splits the revenue 50/50 with blog owner. All you need to do to enroll is choose which mobile advertising program you want to use on your MoFuse mobile site and enter your ID (I would stick to Google AdSense).

Mobilizing your Blog with MoFuse