In the last few days, I have been watching Dave
Winer and Robert
Scoble discuss and oogle about using mobile readers for RSS feeds.
They
both love it.
Of course neither blog systems that Dave or Robert use
automatically generate mobile rss feeds.
Dave had generated a mobile feed
before but had never really experienced it. He modified his mobile rss generator
to create a more palatable experience.
The othe day, I stumbled on xFruits. A
cool website that will automatically generate Moble RSS for you from your feed!
All you have to do is register and submit the feed or feeds you want to be
mobile. xFruits even hosts the feed for you and generates a custom icon and html
code for you.
So, you will note the new 
button over on sidebar of this website. If you click the icon, it
will take you to my mobile rss feed generated by xFruits. Very cool. Now if I
just had a PDA.
Later: I looked at the feed generated by xFruits. Skinny and curt with
only the headlines. Onfolio doesn’t recognize it as a valid rss feed. Hmmmm. I
will have to study that a bit.
Even later: I see that the feed generated by xFruits is xhtml 1.0 compliant.
What is xhtml? you might ask. The following comes from the official w3c xhtml
spec.
1. What is XHTML?
This section is informative.
XHTML is a family of current and future document types and modules that
reproduce, subset, and extend HTML 4 [HTML4]. XHTML family document
types are XML based, and ultimately are designed to work in
conjunction with XML-based user agents. The details of this family and its
evolution are discussed in more detail in [XHTMLMOD].
I don’t have a PDA, but maybe I can get to it from my cell?
