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Make Any RSS Feed iPhone Compatible

Posted March 26, 2008 1:00 PM by Jovan Washington
Categories: Features 

Have you ever thought it was annoying to go to one of your favorite sites (not iPhone optimized) and wait a good amount of time to fully load, only to slide and zoom in and out to see everything. I can say that I sometimes get annoyed, but there is hope.

A new service converts any well formed XML RSS feed to an iPhone-optimized version with the typical sliding style interface.

I love it, and you will too. Point your safari browsers here to test it out.

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  1. Huh? What in the world are you talking about?

    Posted by eMan on March 26, 2008 3:17 PM

  2. Looks promising on an actual computer…
    ...but it utterly fails on an actual iPhone.

    The main RSS list shows correctly, but try to click a feed item before the whole page loads, and you get text sliding over text (=garbage).
    And forget trying to ‘slide’ back to the main RSS list from the article; it(Safari) has to reload the whole page(RSS list) from scratch again.
    -.-

    Posted by Joe Schmoe on March 26, 2008 4:37 PM

  3. Not sure what problem you are having but works fine for me - I’ve got a number of feeds working just fine from it on my Iphone and they work really smoothly. Agreed you have to wait for the feed to load in the cache.

    It does not work with Atom feeds just RSS

    M25 London Traffic News:  http://www.thesmespace.com/smeutils/feed/?url=http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=6c7c555f33cf399a078410c40c21bd22&_render=rss&filter=M25#_home

    Posted by Craig Stone on March 28, 2008 4:04 AM

  4. Thanks for the comments. Its a free Alpha app’ that we put out there as we thought it would be useful.  We have a lot of people using it now and had a lot of feedback.

    It’s using APC cache to cache the feeds but obviously if you click through quickly you get a problems as notices.

    We will soon upgrade the following:

    - Better error handling from feed submittal
    - We will wait until the cache is fully loaded before allowing click through
    - We are looking at adding OPML and also Atom support

    We will soon be releasing several other mobile apps including Meeting scheduling and Mobile storage which are pretty exciting we think

    Posted by James Liddle on March 28, 2008 4:14 AM

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