RSS, flickr and del.icio.us on a Mobile Phone 36
Roger Whittaker writes to tell us Engadget reports that Mobileglu is offering an interesting new service that gives users the ability to read RSS feeds, flickr, del.icio.us, and other sources of content in a mobile friendly format. Think this will lead to smarter content developers making their own sites more mobile friendly, or just a few lawsuits?
Risk of living off others' content (Score:5, Insightful)
Most likely these content providers will sit and see what comes out of this.
If it isn't popular, MobileGLU will die out itself; If it's popular, these content providers will invite MobileGLU to pay up, or file an injunction to shut it down while they start providing the service themselves.
Not many company can manage to live off someone else's content for free, the one that stands out is obviously the Beast, which is also constantly under attack by content providers.
To be successful, MobileGLU really needs to hit the market hard and fast, that is to make sure these content providers need its service more than it needs their content.
Re:worked for Google. Still leeching. (Score:1)
Re:worked for Google. Still leeching. (Score:2)
Slashdot has never moved past the leech stage, they dice up content sucked from anywhere they can find it. Their ads are spam. The user did not ask for them; Slashdot gets paid for them. The Anti-leech http://www.customizeslashdot.com/ [customizeslashdot.com]
Re:Risk of living off others' content (Score:2, Informative)
Justin from mobileGlu here. The idea behind mobileGlu is not to live off other people's content, we are just acting as a mobile aggregator for people's flickr, delicious, upcoming, RSS etc life online, and that relationship is one to many (i.e. one user many content), not many to many like public aggregators.
The main goal behind the project is not to leech people's content, but to act as a two-way hub between the user and the web service (e.g. allowing user's to post photos from their mobile to
Re:Risk of living off others' content (Score:1)
Re:Risk of living off others' content (Score:2)
That being said, the decision made in the Nevada District Court in Las Vegas regarding the Google cache sets a hopeful precedent.
Opera mobile (Score:4, Informative)
"Opera Mobile browser lets you surf the full Web on your mobile phone. And when we say "the full Web," we really mean the *full* Web. Equipped with Opera's Small-Screen Rendering technology, the Opera Mobile browser lets you access any site on the Internet, just like you do on your computer."
Re:Opera mobile (Score:2)
Opera Mini(TM) is a fast and easy alternative to Opera's mobile browser, allowing users to access the Web on mobile phones that would normally be incapable of running a Web browser. This includes the vast majority of today's WAP-enabled phones.
Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone. This makes Opera Mini(TM) perfect for phones with very low resources, or low bandwidth connections.
Opera Mi
Re:Opera mobile (Score:3, Informative)
MobileRSS (Score:4, Informative)
Re:MobileRSS (Score:2)
Re:MobileRSS (Score:1)
But I can't help thinking that while the proprietary approach of taking specific websites and ripping their content might work for a brief period, in the long run it is surely doomed.
The proper solution is websites that deploy CSS intelligently to produce pages formatted properly for small screens. That's what CSS and the
bloglines mobile is good enough (Score:3, Interesting)
1. create bloglines account, subscribe to couple of feeds.
2. swithch to mobile version
http://bloglines.com/mobile [bloglines.com]
3. read all your news in a friendly format (I mostly use it behind my PC as it is just so simple)
http://bloglines.com/myblogs_subs [bloglines.com]
Re:WWW = Wirelessly Wank to Wenk (Score:1)
Great (Score:2)
What about the cost? (Score:2)
Now we have a service that will cost a fortune in many markets.
Which is it?...too expensive or attractively priced?
/. RSS (Score:1)
websites on mobile...so stupid (Score:2)
this so called 'internet on phones' is even more ridiculous than the concept of playing games on celphones.
1) the web-browser is SOO slow - takes a LONG time to initialize...
2) they make you navigate through 3 or 4 screens before you can even type in an 'http://' address, each of which is hideously slow and probably costing me money because it's actually navigating some website on my providers network
Re:websites on mobile...so stupid (Score:1)
Re:websites on mobile...so stupid (Score:2)
thanx, but i DO know how to use my phone. it's not rocket science.
There are no options to set a home page, no options to customize the startup behavior.
I go to the 'web browser' on my phone, it doesn't give me any options but their default list of urls that I can choose - it doesn't give me an 'http://' prompt, it immediately thinks that I want one of their default pages...
Yes this is t
News? (Score:2)
-1 stupid (Score:2)