Burn Feeds for Cellular Phones

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1. David (1 comments.) says:

   7/12/2007 at 11:18 pm

   What, no iPhone? I thought that was the only phone selling as of last Friday. Then again I’m just an Apple snob who’s too stubborn to check.
2. Mark Ghosh (386 comments.) says:

   7/12/2007 at 11:22 pm

   I wish they offered the iPhone for other providers beside AT&T.
3. Marc says:

   7/12/2007 at 11:40 pm

   A phone news reader…a very cool idea. Too bad for T-Mobile users (T-Mobile won’t allow 3rd party apps). What about a plug-in for WordPress (or maybe using an Autoresponder) that would automatically generate an SMS ‘alert’ for each new RSS updates/posts? Granted, this really shines for RSS feeds/blogs/websites that are infrequently updated. Currently, FeedBurner users can subscribe to an RSS feed using their email service and submitting a sms email address or similar workaround. As of 2/21/2007, FeedBurner did not have any ‘specific SMS-centric plans’ in the works. Any other ideas for a some sort of RSS/SMS mash-up?
4. Blog Make Money (1 comments.) says:

   7/12/2007 at 11:46 pm

   I already implemented this cool blog mobile post option in my blog. Check it out.
5. BJohnM (7 comments.) says:

   7/13/2007 at 11:19 am

   I’m not sure why you believe T-Mobile does not allow 3rd party Apps, Mark. I’m sure they don’t support them, but I have a ton loaded on my Wing (and MDA before that). In fact, somewhere on their site they even provide a link to their own handango store.

   That being said, I found a great RSS Feed reader through Handango. It’s called Egress and is by Garish Kernals – http://www.garishkernels.net/software.html. It does a great job of formatting to read on the phone, and is very customizable. For Windows Mobile and Smartphone.

   It even has a Today Screen module to scroll headlines.
6. Jesse Harris (10 comments.) says:

   7/13/2007 at 12:45 pm

   Maybe I’m just hopelessly clueless, but I thought the idea behind XHTML/CSS was to not have to customize things for different platforms and devices including mobile phones. Are mobile phone manufacturers really that incompetent at building a standards-compliant browser?
7. Otto (215 comments.) says:

   7/13/2007 at 2:43 pm

   @Jesse: No, you’re not clueless. It’s just that most people don’t know how to implement CSS to the handheld profile properly. If you create a custom CSS for handheld devices and then add the media=”handheld” stylesheet tag to your page, nearly all mobile phones will use it. I implemented it on my page and it works on every phone I’ve tested it on (except the iPhone, which displays the full normal page).
8. Dave (5 comments.) says:

   7/13/2007 at 7:40 pm

   I’ve been using Google on my cell phone to read RSS feeds, and it’s served me quite well.
9. Oren (1 comments.) says:

   7/20/2007 at 12:46 pm

   Mark,
   Thank you for trying out BUZme / BUZmob, and for your comments.

   Our focus is on content publishers (bloggers, media sites, news outlets, etc.) who want to mobile-enable their content without making any changes to it. http://www.buzmob.com is our publisher website, whereas buzme.buzmob.com is our end-user site, for mobile users who want to push any feed to their phone.
   There’s more to mobilizing content than just good xHTML – there’s image transcoding, page splitting, specific-device adaptation, etc.

   Existing solutions are either platform specific (WordPress plugins, which do not support full transcoding to older phones) or they require a handset client download (which most users won’t do) or they simply bypass the content publisher (Google Reader).

   I noticed you came across the service on Performancing – we’ve just mobilized the entire Splashpress Media blog inventory, and even created a mobile site for them (http://splash.buzmob.com).

   Yours,
   Oren (& the rest of the BUZmob team).
10. Jason (1 comments.) says:

    7/21/2007 at 6:02 am

    it would be really cool. as of now i am blogspot user, but i’m gonna launch my other blogs to wordpress with bluehost. this feature is definitely i would be using