Monday, March 13, 2006

Getting Bloglines on your BlackBerry


If you've got a BlackBerry, you're probably like me and love to find new ways to use it. If you like reading blogs, you may have run into Bloglines, an RSS aggregator that coalesces your favorite blogs into a single user-interface. Now there's a new tool that combines Bloglines with Blackberries (I'm reminded of the old commercial: "You've got Bloglines on my BlackBerry... But you've got a BlackBerry on my Bloglines... Two great tastes, together for the first time...").

Now Bogle's Blog has unofficially combined the two services into Berry Bloglines, yet another mashup, this one providing a mobile Bloglines reader with a simple, elegant interface. The mashup? The author used three pre-existing thingamabobs to create a new service: (a) the Bloglines web services interface; (b) Michael Josephson's Bloglines service client written in Python; and (c) Mark Pilgrim's sweet Universal Feed Parser.

Mashup. Now there's an idea for a revamped New York Times' Op-Ed page. Just combine Cohen, Dowd, Krugman, and Rich into a single, hysterical, anti-administration super-columnist!

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