An iPhone stopgap
Posted By Mike Orren in Power Users on April 20, 2008
Right now the dev team is working on building out our new ad server (or possibly the piece of software that will communicate with a third-party server) so that laymen on our staff can make Daily You advertising happen without us having to program around every deal by hand.
We all know this is core to our business, but I also know that right now everyone really wants to work on a mobile/iPhone version. We have an anemic and clunky mobile version right now, but we want to roll out something that will use your location to be super-useful in terms of finding info on the fly. But we also know that the business needs the ad server first.
So, in the meantime, I'll share a stopgap that I'm using on my own phone. There is an online iPhone builder that turns any RSS feed into a web-based iPhone app.
For instance, here's the link for our PegPicks events. Send that link to your phone via email, and it should be pretty easy to navigate.
Here's latest stories.
And latest comments.
You can do this with any RSS feed you like, and we have thousands of them. If you're not conversant in such things, let us know a site category you'd like and we'll make you a link.
(And yes, I know that Power Users has been fallow lately. I don't really expect that to change for a couple weeks, but someday soon I'm going to block out a whole day to make some more screencasts.)

Scott Doyle, says:
I'm too frugal to buy an iphone. $500 for the 16GB is absurd, and 8GB certainly isn't worth $400.
Damn razr crapped out on me though, and I'm replacing it with a Samsung a727 (image below) - similar mobile upgrades for non-iphones in the works too?
<img src="http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/4643/sgha727ap6.jpg">
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Mike Orren, says:
Yes-- And this one should work for any web-enabled phone. It's just done in an iPhoney style.
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