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RSS, flickr and del.icio.us on a Mobile Phone

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the internet-tower-of-babel dept.

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?

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  1. Risk of living off others' content by biocute · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Think this will lead to smarter content developers making their own sites more mobile friendly, or just a few lawsuits?

    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.

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    1. Re:Risk of living off others' content by darkworm · · Score: 2, Informative

      Hello there,

      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 their Flickr account, and view those photos), and to help enable other web services to get mobilised as quickly as possible.

      Hope that clear some things up?

      Justin

  2. Opera mobile by dotpavan · · Score: 3, Informative
    Doesnt Opera Mobile do the same?

    "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."

    1. Re:Opera mobile by JulesLt · · Score: 3, Informative

      I think the difference is that the Opera browser shows the whole web page (inc. the ads subsidising said page, etc) rather than accessing the underlying data.

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  3. MobileRSS by brokencomputer · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is kind of like Mobile RSS.

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  4. bloglines mobile is good enough by BlackShirt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    frankly speaking, it is excellent. try to beat that.
    1. create bloglines account, subscribe to couple of feeds.
    2. swithch to mobile version
    http://bloglines.com/mobile
    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