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Winksite makes rss feeds phone friendly |
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Written by googirama
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Thursday, 06 October 2005 |
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Already have a weblog or journal with a service such as Typepad, Radio Userland, Blogger, or Live Journal? If your service provides a valid feed in any of the major formats, creating a mobile edition is simple.
What Will My Visitors See?
Visitors to the mobile edition of your blog will be able to scan your headlines then link to summaries or full content. If you do not include full text in your feed (and even if you do) a "View full entry..." link is provided to the full post at its originating URL. Visitors can click on this link to read the complete post at your site. Keep in mind this will not work consistantly across all mobile browsers (especially WAP) for various reasons. For those cases we also include a "Send entry to..." link so users can send the post with it's full content link to an email address for desktop access at another time. For obvious reasons we recommend providing full content. Finally, if they are registered at WINKsite they are also provided with an option to subscribe to your feed. Universal Distribution Across All Mobile Devices. As mentioned in previous posts one of our goals at WINKsite is to help get content onto subscriber's phones and so grow the author's audience.
Why?
The mobile audience is huge - The GSM Association has announced that the number of subscribers to GSM wireless networks has surpassed the one billion mark. That's roughly equivalent to one-sixth of the entire world population. While some blogging services provide style sheets for a PDA-friendly version of your blog content, those templates alone reach just a fraction of the total mobile audience. As such, WINKsite distributes the mobile edition of your blog in formats accessable by any web-enabled mobile phone or PDA running a WML v1.x, xHTML Mobile Profile(WML v2.0) or i-mode compatible HTML (cHTML) browser.
Source: WinkSite
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