Recently, my satellite connection slowed to a crawl (no surprise there). At the time, I was trying to look up a domain name at GoDaddy. Now, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but lately GoDaddy’s site loads EXTREMELY SLOW. That, coupled with my already slow Internet connection, made it impossible for me to accomplish my task. So, I grumpily IM’d a friend of mine and said something like, “Ack! I wish I could load a fast version of Godaddy!” My friend said, “Wait, you can!” And he then proceeded to give me the mobile URL for GoDaddy. Woot! Problem solved. And that got me thinking….

Mobile sites, while useful for what they were designed, are also useful in other situations, such as the one I described above. For that reason, I compiled a quick list of the mobile versions of some of the bigger, most used sites that could come in handy on those “slow connection” days. And since I usually share useful information, I’m sharing them with you as well.

Mobile Versions of Popular Sites

News / Weather

BBC
USA Today
ABC News
Reuters
Yahoo Weather

Search

Google
Yahoo

Start Pages and Feeds

Netvibes
NewsGator
Bloglines

Flights and Shipments

FlightStats
FedEx

Social Networks

Facebook
MySpace
Flickr
Twitter
Pownce
Plurk

Miscellaneous

Remember The Milk
Wikipedia (Wapedia)

And finally, a site that promises to load mobile versions of any site:

Baresite

Obviously, I’ve only scratched the surface with these few sites, but now that I’ve reminded you to use mobile sites when you have a slow connection, you can seek out the ones you use most often and bookmark them for future use. Also, directories like MakeUseOf often have mobile categories that list the mobile versions of sites you may use.