Helicoid's mmm

Using Google's Mobile Search to transcode web interface

Mobilicio.us allows you to read your del.icio.us bookmarks using your phone. It’s a simple implementation that’s straighforward enough. To get a feel for how it works, check out the demo.

However, what’s particularly interesting about this tool is that they’ve used Google Mobile to dynamically “transcode” the html created by del.icio.us into mobile-friendly html. They discuss the basics on their weblog, in How We Use Google Mobile:

So we’re not doing anything too special, just appending http://www.google.com/? to the front of the link in your bookmarks. You used to be able to see this on our sire by hovering over a link and checking the URL in the status bar.

It’s good to see someone using Google’s technology to create a new view on an interesting service. Hopefully we’ll see more of this kind of thing in the future!