Bloglines + Skweezer: mobile feed-reader

Posted on | September 22, 2006 | No Comments

while Dave Winer’s rivers of news deservedly have gathered most interest of the mobile community over the last month (see TechCrunch, OM Daily), online feed-reader Bloglines offers a mobile version of its service since quite a while. the interface is almost as stripped down (and therefor fast) as Dave’s mobile rivers, with the big advantage of not being restricted to several feeds, but rather synching with whatever sources users have syndicated in their Bloglines-account. this basically means that users dont’ have to double-read posts when using desktop- and mobile platforms, which is a great feature.

as announced yesterday, Bloglines recently integrated Skweezer into their mobile reader. Skweezer is a proxy-service for shrinking websites to fit on small screens of handhelds and mobile phones. this is a great feature, as it allows blog-readers to follow links to normal web-pages without the usual hassle. besides optimizing html, Skweezer downscales images (or disables them at all) and translates text to 13 languages. the screenshots below were taken on Opera Mini on a Nokia 6630 and show Bloglines’ startscreen (left), feedlist (middle) and a version of this blog rendered by Skweezer (right).

 

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