• GMBHnews turns any blog into a mobile site – for a price

    Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

    Steve O’Hear is probably best known as a technology journalist, most recently at TechCrunch. He still occasionally blogs at last100. Until February 2012, he was CEO of expertise platform Beepl where he helped the company navigate its first VC round, along with seeing the product through development, private alpha and a high-profile public launch. Last100 was co-founded with Richard MacManus... → Learn More

    GMBHnews, from Otzberg, Germany-based Omer Networks, has launched as a quick and easy way for publishers to create and monetize mobile versions of their website. It does this through a near idiot-proof setup ‘wizard’ that asks for the site’s name, URL, RSS feed and Google Mobile AdSense code (if applicable).

    However, the fact that it’s RSS-driven would seem to suggest that GMBHnews is primarily aimed at bloggers, which if the case, begs the question: why not just install, say, a free WordPress mobile site plug-in and be done. Apparently, that’s still too complicated for some publishers, claims the startup.

    Instead, GMBHnews says there’s a need for a solution that doesn’t require any technical knowledge, such as how to install and configure a plug-in. Even if that solution starts from $9/month for up to 5,000 monthly page views, right up to $499/month for an unlimited plan aimed at blog networks.

    That said, GMBHnews says it takes as little as 2 minutes to create a mobile version of a site and offers a full free 30-day trial. Of note, GMBHnews also operates a mobile site directory of the same name.

    Check out the ever so slightly cheesy demo video below.

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