Mobilizing your Blog with Feed-Mate

FeedM8 (feed-mate) is a whole new way to enjoy mobile web browsing. You can now get your favorite blogs or feed-enabled websites on your mobile device in the good manner. This means you get all the popular sites, top news, social networks, sports, celebrity and weather updates all on your mobile phone anytime and anywhere. The content is designed for your mobile phone and it is optimized for mobile access, so it is fast and uses smart data transfer technique and little device resources.

There are a few ways to get started with FeedM8 as a feed reader.
1) Go to m.feedm8.com on your phone’s browser. Shortcuts are accepted for fast search. Simply choose from the top picks under "CHK IT OUT" or type what you’re looking for in "WRU L%KN 4?" (i.e. What are you looking for?)
2) Go to www.feedm8.com on your desktop PC. Choose one of the featured websites or enter your own. Type in your phone number when prompted and you will receive a FeedM8 link by SMS.
3) Add the button “My Mobile” (presented on the developer’s web site) to your bookmarks as follows, depending on your browser type:

- Internet Explorer: Right-click the button, and choose "Add to favorites."
- Firefox: Drag the button above into your Bookmarks Toolbar
- Opera: Right-click the button above, choose "Bookmark Link"

To send a website you’re browsing to you mobile, click the "Send to My Mobile" shortcut you’ve just added.

Currently the following operators are supported in US and Canada:
US - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Nextel, Alltel, Metro PCS, Helio
Canada - Rogers, Bell, Fido, Telus, Virgin Mobile, Sasktel, MTS

Developers Web site: http://www.feedm8.com/web/faq_reader

The following detailed video tutorial will instruct you on how to prepare your and configure your blog to use the FeedM8 features, allowing readers to access it with ease on their iPhone, PDA or cell phones.

Mobilizing your Blog

I thank all for their comments.

My blog post on FeedBurner has received a few comments and I thank everyone who has read and commented. I also thank all who have read and left without commenting.

I regret that I have not written well. I should have given more details about the many uses of FeedBurner especially about the in depth traffic analysis it provides. Probably, another person may have written a detailed blog post on the subject.

Here is a testimonial about FeedBurner that might interest my readers.
"We recently integrated FeedBurner into The Creative Connector blog and it has become a tremendous help in bettering our understanding of who is visiting the blog, where they are coming from, and which visitors are subscribing to the RSS feed. With all of the FeedBurner tools, we can now focus on providing even better content for entrepreneurs and marketers. Thank you FeedBurner!" -
The Creative Connector 11/16/07

A very useful feed tool for bloggers.

I am yet to come in to the grip of RSS feed tools though, I have subscribed to several feeds. Also, I am yet to use a feed reader apart from Google and Yahoo.

I find it difficult sometimes to manage all those feeds because I need to weed out a few extra that come in. If only there is a way to filter....

Yes, here it is Blast Feed. It combines several feeds into a single feed or channel by applying a keyword filter. For instance, if you wish to receive only the news items that contain a keyword, say ‘blog tools’, this service could come in handy.

"Blastfeed will only collect items that match your criteria in each feed. The results will be amalgamated into a single file and sent to you by email, Instant Messaging or as a new RSS feed, when and where you want it."-Blast Feed

I can receive the feeds through my email or even IM.

This is a web based service and hence there is nothing for us to download. As usual, we can type the feed url if we know or just browse and select the feeds and add them in Blast Feed.

Inspired by: The Hindu

Just Anothr Feed Reader.

No, I did not make a spelling mistake-this feed reader is really Anothr.

Though I am not very particular about RSS reader, I like to review these feed readers. I read feeds through my email only.

Features of Anothr:

• Subscribe your favorite blogs, news, sports, stocks, entertainment…
  and much more to your Skype/Gtalk/MSN simply
• Just-in-time notification on your Skype/Gtalk/MSN
• Web-based management and sharing
• No software installation and registration, just add the bot as your
  contact

The features may be the usual ones that you find in every reader but I like their user interface. It is simple and uncluttered.

Above all, it is free!