Thursday, September 13, 2007

Feeds on my BlackBerry

So this doesn't have anything to do with investment but I have a blackberry pearl and I use Blogglines Mobile and Viigo v2.2.55. So, here are my comments. Overall I think Viigo isn't really finished. I think they need to fix the following problems:
1) You can't use the blackberry standard pg up and down with numbers (ie 3, 9)
2) You can't mark a channel as 'all read' - In a channel I would like to hit menu > mark all read so I know what's really new and not what is just 'not read'
3) When a channel refreshes (intermittent) it will forget what you have read (ie. everything would be new)
4) When I upgraded my BlackBerry it lost all the channels I added

Viigo is overall faster on EDGE do to load times of web sites. Viigo is better because it loads an overview and only loads the full article when you drill into it. Blogglines will time out loading images and will build pages to big for the mobile browser. Then you can reload easily because it has marked it as read. I like Blogglines directory much better because you can see how many users use the same feed and you can manage it on the website. For each feed you can make it as available on mobile so not everything shows up on you blackberry. So, the funny thing is that I end up using both. Blogglines for friends and comics: Viigo for basic news and some tech stuff.

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