Thinking of Mobile Content, Think RSS
I want to let you all in on a little/big secret. For some months now MMM has been undergoing a redesign effort. One of the reasons for the redesign is to make the suite of content here more accessible via mobile devices. While it is that I very much favor making this website mobile, I realize that for many viewing a full webpage on a mobile is just not feasible, some pages/sites are just too large.
Enter RSS, or really simple syndication. RSS is a format for viewing dynamic webpage content (content that changes often such as news articles). The cool aspect of RSS is that by itself it is pretty useless, but combined with a feed reader, it can be pretty versatile as a means in relaying constantly changing information that can be served for various devices.
An The Cellular Lifestyle goes into more detail about the various online and offline RSS readers available, so I will not cover that again here. I will highlight though that if you are looking for a means to serve content such as news announcements, church/organization news, etc. (even things as complex as a user manual) that RSS is a great option to give your audience. And for the most part mild help is needed to get a feed setup and read.
Add to that fact that both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 (the largest web browsers) handle RSS feeds quite well, and you have a means of helping info go mobile with people who already are.
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Enter RSS, or really simple syndication. RSS is a format for viewing dynamic webpage content (content that changes often such as news articles). The cool aspect of RSS is that by itself it is pretty useless, but combined with a feed reader, it can be pretty versatile as a means in relaying constantly changing information that can be served for various devices.
An The Cellular Lifestyle goes into more detail about the various online and offline RSS readers available, so I will not cover that again here. I will highlight though that if you are looking for a means to serve content such as news announcements, church/organization news, etc. (even things as complex as a user manual) that RSS is a great option to give your audience. And for the most part mild help is needed to get a feed setup and read.
Add to that fact that both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 (the largest web browsers) handle RSS feeds quite well, and you have a means of helping info go mobile with people who already are.
- sent from Treo
posted by Antoine @ 11/01/2006 08:57:00 AM
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