DISQUS

Paulo · 3 years ago

Thats a pretty cool hack. However, if the sites themselves used valid XHTML and a CSS stylesheet designed for mobile devices, they would degrade gracefully for mobile users.

Until then you could always let Opera do the work and use Opera Mini (http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/) if your phone supports Java.

Mike · 3 years ago

I'm in love.

I need this for all of my favorite sites (including my own)! I just got a T-Mobile MDA Windows Mobile Phone and I love it so far. (Surprise! I'm a Mac guy.) The problem is, that all sites are horrible to read and although I have a good RSS reader on there (prssreader: http://pda.jasnapaka.com/prssr/) I don't want 1000 feeds going to my phone, so I'm left trying to read sites beautifully styled for a monitor, not for a cell phone.

I'm giving Dave this weekend to start passing out code I can use or I'm off to make one myself!

Robert Scoble · 3 years ago

Paulo: my site works just fine on all cell phones and you don't need to do any of that crap. But I still like this serverside RSS display. It gets rid of all the crap other than just the content. For a small screen this makes Web reading FAR better.

Louis Gray · 3 years ago

One of my concerns about the TechCrunch party is that if all the top-notch bloggers are in one location at the same time, doesn't that mean that the very fabric of the blogosphere will collapse? And isn't there a security issue around having all of you in one area at the same time? Who are 2nd and 3rd in command at TechCrunch and Scobleizer, and have they been deputized?

Kevin · 3 years ago

seems like you can accomplish the same thing using skweezer's or google's transcoding services...

definitely psyched to see the interest in RSS on mobile. nice!

-kevin

Michael Gannotti · 3 years ago

Okay so ther isn't much worth reading on my blog but all my worthless drivel is still readable on a cell phone at http://www.mikeysgblog.com/m
The added /m for mobile is an out of the box SharePoint 2007 feature. This last week I blogged about the whole mobile blog experience (both reading and posting) while on vacation

Anonymous · 3 years ago

That page has is gigantic. Luckily I'm on EDGE. There should be an option to turn off images.

Paulo · 3 years ago

Robert, your site does work fine on my phone too. However, my point was that site owners could use a stylesheet targeted for mobile users to get rid of the "crap" and let their content shine through. That way, they could specifically target mobile users and show them content that isn't necessarily restricted to what's published in their feed.

In any case, a server-side mobile RSS renderer is still very cool. BlogLines Mobile (http://bloglines.com/mobile) remains my favorite though :)

nathaniel · 3 years ago

But the mobile version is stripped of advertising! Won't someone please think of the poor advertisers! ;D

Michael Gannotti · 3 years ago

Anonymous, if you meant my age was gigantic and had images then you did not have the full URL as it is a stripped view with NO images full link Includes the /m in the url
http://www.mikeysgblog.com/m is the mobile url

Josh Bancroft · 3 years ago

Congratulations, Dave. You just invented Bloglines Mobile. ;-)

I've been using (and loving) Bloglines (a web based aggregator) for years for this very reason - they have a very usable, lightweight mobile version of their web-based aggregator that works great on Windows Mobile devices. So, I can (and do) read a mobile-friendly, RSS-based version of any of my 1000 RSS subscriptions anywhere and anytime I want.

People pooh pooh-ed the fact that "Bloglines doesn't work offline, like Aggregator X does" for a long time. But now that more and more people (like you, Robert, and Dave) are getting and using mobile connected devices, they are starting to realize how cool it is to be connected to your favorite sites via RSS no matter where you are, and starting to see that as a valid tradeoff for not being able to read offline.

Welcome to the mobile RSS world! :-)

Joshua Maher · 3 years ago

I'm waiting for a Seattle ferry and am on my BlackBerry 7100t, the site works fine, the graphic is there, the ads are there, the comments work, who needs the other stuff?

I checked out my blog too and no issues there either.....

Mike · 3 years ago

Ok, I decided I'm not waiting for Dave to share with the world. I made my own. You can use it for most any site out there and you can find it here: http://hellyeahbitch.com/mobile

Just plug in the base URL (for example hellyeahbitch.com) and chose if you want styling on my interface and whether or not you want to see HTML in the posts pulled and you are done.

About Bloglines Mobile...I tried using it, and I wasn't a huge fan. I don't like having to add feeds and all the options of marking it "read" and blah blah blah. I just want something simple to view a blog in a format for my mobile screen nothing more.

More information at my blog post: http://hellyeahbitch.com/archives/2006/08/182214

Frankly, if no one else uses it but me, its cool because I made it for me, but I would love to hear if anyone is using it and what they think.

JT · 3 years ago

Daves site takes forever to load on my HTC Wizard. Just use an online RSS feeder or something and subscribe to the techcrunch rss feed. I used feeddemon and newsgator mobile, both from newsgator.com. This way my feeds are synchronized and I'm not reading the same thing twice.

danja · 3 years ago

Today's headline: "A-list blogger invents the wheel".


Here's an RSS-derived lite view of TechCrunch using an existing free, general-purpose, standards-based online tool. I didn't have to write a line of code. You can use the same technique for any feed you like - here's yours.

(The XSLT might not be ideal, but it was the first I found with Google).

matt m · 3 years ago

I read this post on Google Reader Mobile...very concise, works on the smallest phones.
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/

I like the script idea though, not just for blogs though. I think most sites are going to need to address the way they look in mobile devices. For some sites, I have to search them through the Google mobile homepage, which proxies the request through their servers and breaks something that would otherwise be unreadable into digestable content.

Joe Clark · 3 years ago

This is very much an issue of Web standards, which Winer doesn’t care about or understand but will inevitably claim to have invented.

Dan Becker · 3 years ago

Surprised no one has mentioned that Newsgator has a very phone-friendly version of their newsreader. Yet another reason to love Newsgator - all your RSS feeds, complete with read/unread status, synced across a web client, a mobile-optimized web client, an Outlook client, and full Windows (FeedReader) and Mac (NewsGator) clients. Yummy!

I've been using it since I got a RAZR & loaded Opera Mini last fall (though it works fine with lamer default phone browsers as well) for fairly heavy blog surfing.

But I get sad when I visit another blog site linked from it; then I have to put up with blogs that aren't very usable on a phone browser as Scoble originally complained. I agree: if I can't read your post easily on my phone, I will probably just shrug and hit the back button.

Ed · 3 years ago

This is such old news...

OnTheTech · 3 years ago

Hi Robert,

Micro Persuasion just linked to xfruits.com, a Mashup RSS creation service with a RSS to Mobile feature.

What I liked:

- Easy to sign up.

- Forgot to add my exact RSS feed URL (just the .com domain) when testing out the mobile feed, but the service found it anyway. It looks like it was able to phrase the page and find the correct rss address.

- Presents the different features of the site into easy to understand boxes on the homepage. Makes it
easy for users to understand what each feature is about.

What I would add:

- A feature to email or text message the url to a mobile phone. The url is a little long for people that would have to T9 the address.

Brandon · 3 years ago

does anybody else get tired of robert's name dropping? tell me how guy kawasaki helped stregthen the main idea of this post? yeah, robert, we know you are graced with internet celebreties. you've got readership, you've already won us over and we've subscribed because we think you're relevant. but the more someone advertises their own importance, the quicker they loose it. the slope is slippery.

Robert Scoble · 3 years ago

Brandon: good point. But, why do cool people invite me to breakfast? Cause they know I'll drop their names. It's sorta like PayPerPost except breakfastperpost! :-)

Brandon · 3 years ago

True enough. Never eat alone.

Vasanth · 3 years ago

I thought thats why we have RSS? Why do you need to got to techcrunch.com to read it. Why not subscribe to its RSS feed in your mobile phone's RSS reader. Surely it much have one.

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Women Want · 2 years ago

I like your opinion, anyway,.
and I like your blog too,.... :)