Comments on: Trying to Love Mobile RSS Widgets & Pushed Info

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:58:27 +0000

Recent news regarding the http://www.bpwidgets.com site mentioned above — it’s been taken down! Or repurposed, as the case may be. Bluepulse went a different direction, so widgets were falling out of favor.

If you liked the Amazon widget, Rich, you might also enjoy the full blown Java ME app it was turned into at http://www.mywebonthego.com. The widget was a ‘lite’ version of the full site. Still JavaVerified and still free.

See you guys.

By: Mobilitee

Mobilitee — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:50:08 +0000

[...] In the end, Apple’s slick use of widgets and a great web browser will probably run quite nicely on EDGE. Sure you won’t be able to sling to the device or stream hi-fi media unless you’re in a WiFi area, but with Apple’s ability to create intuitive software, it might start getting close to my desire to have widgets really start to predict and think and actually be helpful. [...]

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:58:03 +0000

Jon-

I don’t see a link there, but I assume you built a new mobile RSS reader? I like that you’re trying to keep me in sync. I’ll try to look for your app, or you can post the URL here.

Alan. Browsing through that widget site, I must say I’m impressed. There really is a diverse set of widgets available. I’m going to install Bluepulse and give it a shot. But as I said in the post, my main concern is trying to predict what I’ll need. Things like the amazon widget will really help comparison shopping (though I’d love a Froogle widget more).

So I think what I’ll do is try to cover a percentage of what I’ve needed in the past with a selection of widgets and see how much I need to use the browser with them installed. If I can reduce the amount of time in the browser by 50%, maybe that’s worth it for me. Thanks for your response.

By: alan

alan — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:49:33 +0000

Hi Rich, have you taken a longer look at the diverse range of enthusiast-built widgets available for Bluepulse? Try installing the client and installing some widgets from your phone, or if you’d like to read up on some first, check out the 3rd party community site at http://www.bpwidgets.com run by a widget developer, which features many of the more popular widgets. It’s a verrrry diverse list.

Bluepulse and widgets written for it don’t push data and consume data when you’re idle, generally do smart things like show you the newest items in, say, an RSS feed first, and allow you to interact with the site publishing the RSS or providing the API that makes the widget possible.

For instance, the Digg and Flickr widgets for Bluepulse let you login and do many of the tasks you’d do when on your PC, without attempting to do some of the things that don’t make sense while on your phone (like reorg your photo collection.)

By: Jon Maroney

Jon Maroney — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:06:30 +0000

HI Rich –

What you are looking for is a tall order. We’ve tried to address a lot of these issues with a new product that is currently in beta called Siteline. It’s any RSS content delivered and cached on your mobile phone. It let’s you get most of your top items and next week, it will let you take another step as well. We’re not trying to address your searching or mobile browsing needs – we’re just trying to make it easy to keep your mobile world synced with your desktop computer/internet world.

You (and anyone that would like) can try Siteline for Windows Mobile at:

By: Phones

Phones — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:57:19 +0000

Mobile RSS…

Maybe podcasters have some hints for useful RSS applications for cell phones…….