This is a little self-indulgent, but if anyone is out there working for an RSS Reader company, perhaps you can develop these tools. Or if you know where these features might exist, let me know please.
1. I’d really like a way of using something like BlogLines offline, when I’m on planes or travelling. It would be a great opportunity to catch on some blog reading and I can’t. Ideally, this would be via Mobile, but on my lappy would be nearly as good.
So how about the RSS Reader caching maybe the last 5 or 10 stories in each unread blog?
I’d change my Reader for this and I can’t think of any other reason I might go through the hassle.
2. I’d also be really interested in a tool which tracked my readership of blogs from week to week, month to month and year to year. Like most of us blog consumers, I’m conscious that my blog reading habits change as time passes - quite radically over a year I think. It would be fascinating for me to quantify this.
Like many of us I think, I’ve been reading less A Listers and more and more in the tail, but it would be cool to be able to track this, even on the basis of something as primitive as the number of times I viewed a blog via my RSS Reader.
So that’s my little wish list. Normal service will resume shortly.
[tags]bloglines, rss reader, a lister, blog[/tags].
For an offline reader, try BlogBridge — http://www.blogbridge.com — works for me. Don’t know if it will work on your pictured MS handheld… But Pito Salas (the original developer) has made it open source, so maybe a port could be made.
As for tracking your reading behavior, PersonalBee does this today, albeit not precisely the way I think you want. But maybe I can change your mind about what you want
We track the articles you say are good, and rank feeds based on how often you say an article from that feed is good. Let me know if you’d like to know more.
best
Ted Shelton, CEO
The Personal Bee, Inc.
http://www.personalbee.com
This is slightly different then what you are looking for but still close enough that it may be interesting. Check out the following service http://www.newsland.ru (click english for non Cyrrilic). these guys provide a Windows mobile (as well as a few other PDA/smartphone platforms) mobile news aggregator that delivers your favortie news to your mobile device. The way it works is that you select the news sources that you like reading via a web interface and then it actively scans them to fetch the content. From there they deliver your personal news/blog journal to your mobile device when you sync it at your pc. They also can update via GPRS.
I have not used this myself but heard it was pretty well done. Check it out, as an interesting mobile news service.
Best,
Sergey Lossev
CEO of VCEL, inc
http://www.vcellvibes.com
I actually read your post at 30,000 feet while offline on my Treo - using your free Mobhappy Reader! That’s the way the product works - everything is always stored on the device so it’s always available. I have it set to store 15 articles for each feed.
http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2005/08/18/free-mobile-rss-reader-loaded-with-14-essential-mobile-blogs/
I’m biased of course, but I think it works really well!
For the tracking of what you have read, Attensa has recently started testing a new service that does just this and then reorders all posts based on what you’ve found most interesting in the past. I saw a demo of it at the Syndicate Conference early this week. http://www.attensa.com
Jon Maroney
FreeRange Communications
http://www.freerangeinc.com
AvantGo provides the mobile offline RSS solution you are looking for and it’s free!
http://www.avantgo.com/rss
Jon Asmussen
Product Manager, AvantGo
iAnywhere Solutions
http://www.tiggdo.com allows you to consolidate your favourite internet features to your phone for free
You simply enter your own RSS feeds and then read them on your phone.
If you are looking for a mobile RSS reader, tiggdo.com allows you to enter your own RSS feeds and read them on your phone for free.
http://www.tiggdo.com/