Google Reader Mobile

Posted by james on Mar 8, 2007 in tips | 0 comments

Something I do a lot of is read blogs. I do this mainly via Google Reader, as highlighted in my post “Google Reader – Step 1 & 2“. I also do this using my iMate K-JAM phone, a Windows Mobile 5 phone. It’s not a bad phone, though I use it more for it’s browsing and wifi capabilities…

So, if you think you’d like to read your blog feeds while waiting at the bus stop, or in a waiting room, or during your work meetings, then just point your browser to “http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/“. This is Google Reader optimised for mobile devices. It’s a really basic version of Google Reader, with no real features, just real content (assuming the blogs you subscribe to are full of “real content”).

Apparently the Google Reader team are really good at watching out for mentions of their product in the Blogosphere, so I think I’ll take this opportunity to mention 1 “bug” and 1 MAJOR feature request.

Bug:

If you’re reading a certain category (tag) and you get to the last post, you will see a link to the next post, but it’s pointing to the current post. Not anything major, just a bit strange (and a let down once I realise I’ve reached the end ).

Feature Request:

Please could you add a date stamp to each post. Just a simple “2007/03/08″ at the top would suffice. I don’t always read every post for every blog I subscribe to, and sometimes I wonder how far back I’m going when I try do a “catch-up” session. It would make life SOOO much easier for me to be able to see a date for each post.