Comments on: Yes, it’s always about Dave

By: LexBlog Blog : How mobile News Rivers work

LexBlog Blog : How mobile News Rivers work — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:27:00 +0000

[...] Like Dave Winer I recently broke down and purchased a Blackberry to replace my aging cell phone. I’ve been taking Winer’s News River feeds for a spin and find them user friendly and valuable to check in on the BBC and NYT news. However, in all the buzz about the River feeds I’ve seen little discussion on Bloglines Mobile and how it differs in application. I use Bloglines as my RSS reader of choice and I added the mobile version to my Blackberry. I’ve been very happy having the mobile version available to check feeds. There are a couple of annoying features that I have come across — but otherwise it looks and operates great. I think both are valuable tools for mobile news consumption — and they are suited for different purposes. Doc Searls hits on some good points about getting the publishing world to focus more on the needs of mobile cell phone news junkies. [...]

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:09:14 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Peter. How’s your mobile app coming along?

By: Peter Cranstone

Peter Cranstone — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:44:09 +0000

He’s way behind the curve. He took someone else’s invention and improved it. Nothing wrong with that. In this industry it’s all about timing anyway. He then sits back and tells the world what he’s done. Along the way he picks fights with everyone. Now all of a sudden he’s discovered mobile. And he immediately starts trying to direct the natural forces to his way of thinking for RSS being delivered to Mobile. Mobile is a different beast than the desktop. The whole experience is inconsistent with the desktop for a number of reasons. Wait until Dave buys a Windows Mobile device and really dives in under the hood. He’ll be back to Windows 3.1 programming. Years ago my partner and I played with the Blackberry. We were the first to add support for real time data compression on the device. However our conclusion was that the Blackberry would be used mainly for email rather than web surfing. It’s a great reading device – hence the focus on RSS feeds… however when it comes to surfing the web and RSS then WIndows Mobile will be the eventual winner. Lets see if Dave can move RSS forward for all Mobile devices. Only one problem, this time he’s late to the party.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:56:31 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Randy. And you are right that Dave has done a lot — I don’t want to diminish what he has been able to accomplish. But I don’t want to overstate it either.

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:04:57 +0000

It\’s not so much that Dave is creating mobile RSS reading. Dave has an amazing way of moving a technology forward. In fact, Dave didn\’t even invent RSS. It was a dead technology that Dave picked up off the floors at Netscape and fathered into the #1 XML format on the Web. Dave doesn\’t build mountains. He moves them.