Will Mobile RSS work?

I was just in a meeting with the CEO of Mobile Arts who’s also a former executive from Smart Communications. His company is a mobile application and content provider which operates a number of mobile services with Smart, Globe, and Sun Cellular. These are mostly mobile-originated and mobile-terminated billing and revenue sharing arrangements with these carriers (see for example, www.mysmart.com.ph, www.fast.ph, www.easy.ph, and www.mail2.ph)

We were talking about the possibility of utilizing some of these existing services to augment existing blogging channels — basic browser, rss, email and this time mobile.

I blogged about my MoBlogging Wishlist last year at PTB and I discussed those avenues to work on and possibly carve a fraction of the active bloggers to use the service both to add a unique feature and even additional income from revenue-sharing.

The question is — how many readers will subscribe and will they spend Php2.50 to get updates from their favorite blogs? Will it be a worthwhile effort?

If you look at the comment section below, you will see a checkbox which allows commenters to get email alerts whenever there are new comments. Will this also work with SMS alerts? We will soon find out as we try and experiment with that here on my blog.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

3 Comments

Allan says:

16 years ago

i think it’s too much.. how bout they archive it as the feeds for the day.. like in twine
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Jon Maroney says:

18 years ago

We have an on-device RSS reader for mobile phones, and what we’ve seen from our users is a desire to have more timely updates on particular pieces of information, such as keyword based news alerts. It’s not clear yet that it will be worth it to get all comments, but perhaps all new posts from a particular blog that are on a particular subject. The requirement is the fine grained control by the user as to what they receive.

Jon M.
http://www.freerangeinc.com
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Miguel says:

18 years ago

It might work if it’s one regular message that lists the updated blogs. One message per post is too much.

But then, aren’t bloggers the type who have GPRS or 3G phones, and can run J2ME or Symbian apps? They can just visit mobile aggregation sites or run handset-side RSS readers.
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