Reading news on iPhone?
I tried to search, but I am not sure what to search for. I have a new iPhone, and I have been trying to figure out how to read news on it. Sure, I can sort of read regular web sites, but it is not exactly user friendly to do that. NYT has narrow columns, so it sort of works. Other places, I end up scrolling horizontally back and forth. I don't really want to read in depth articles on my iPhone, just a quick news summary, like you get in some rss feeds. There is the rss reader that apple provides, but that limits the summaries to 2 lines. I hate that. And I think you have to use bookmarks, which I think are a little cumbersome anyway.
So I put together a simple quick and dirty rss reader site, with some rss feeds right in a pulldown. You could potentially build a link to read your own custom rss feeds, but I have not made that easy yet.
Let me know what you think.
http://modeleven.com/reader/reader.php
So I put together a simple quick and dirty rss reader site, with some rss feeds right in a pulldown. You could potentially build a link to read your own custom rss feeds, but I have not made that easy yet.
Let me know what you think.
http://modeleven.com/reader/reader.php
Comments
Kinda like Dave Winer's "rivers" - http://nytimesriver.com/, diggriver.com/, etc - without needing a separate site (multiple bookmarks) for each.
Also, Google Reader works pretty nicely if you already have a set of feeds that it collects.
And if you use NetNewsWire on the Mac, NewsGator (parent company) has a iPhone access page: http://m.newsgator.com/
An iPhone formatted Google Reader page.