ShareSquare Offers Quick & Easy HTML5 Mobile Sites For Musicians, Bloggers

ShareSquare, once known primarily for its mobile QR Code campaigns, has expanded its services to offer an HTML5 mobile website creator. Basically ShareSquare detects content and design elements on your original site, if you have one, and "mobilizes" those elements by prepopulating related modules to create the initial version of your mobile site.  So instead of being faced with a bunch of initial choices, you begin with a site that draws together feeds and sometimes even fans from such services as Twitter, Facebook and SoundCloud.

The result is an easy way for musicians to quickly and very affordably create a mobile presence.

Getting started on ShareSquare is easy. You enter a domain, it gathers what it can from your website, encourages you to make some initial choices and then offers an array of modules to add additional options to your mobile site based on your chosen plan.

The free version of ShareSquare includes modules for Twitter feeds, Facebook fan page plugin, iTunes & App Store links, YouTube videos, SoundCloud audio and Songkick events listings.  These are among the modules that are prepopulated if your site has identifiable accounts.

Premium options starting at $9 a month include sweepstakes, Amazon-enabled shopping links and email gathering. The monthly plan includes using a custom URL and going ad-free.

Additional features are being rolled out soon including the ability to run a full RSS feed as a source of content. I'm currently using MoFuse to do just that at dnce.mobi and am encountering problems with videos not loading. So I'll be keeping an eye out for ShareSquare's addition of that feature.

Further ahead is a planned Topspin integration that will offer Topspin's "email-for-media widget and a mobile-optimized store."  Though not billed as a mobile service for musicians, ShareSquare is tying in more key services that should make it of special interest to musicians.

Of course, many blogging systems and website builders are now offering mobile versions as a normal feature and such options will become more commonplace over time. Yet ShareSquare's focus on drawing in content from multiple social media and music services will also be a nice way to draw together the threads of one's social media identity into one mobile site.

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Hypebot Features Writer Clyde Smith maintains his freelance writing hub at Flux Research and music industry resources at Music Biz Blogs. To suggest topics for Hypebot, contact: clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com.