billso.com on the iPhone and iPod Touch

I have a few read­ers who fol­low billso.com on their iPhones. I know this because i check my server logs on a reg­u­lar basis. So I have two good­ies for my read­ers who use iPhones.

UPDATE: The first link in the next para­graph won’t resolve prop­erly if viewed on an iPhone. iPhone users can type the fol­low­ing link into their browser:

http://snurl.com/2477v

This link gen­er­ates an iPhone appli­ca­tion that dis­plays the most recent posts to billso.com. Thanks to the fine folks at iPhoneAt­las for the tip!

iPhone users can fol­low this link to build an iPhone appli­ca­tion for any RSS feed. This may also work with the iPod Touch.

The sec­ond goodie is a fea­ture I added on 29 Jan­u­ary 2008. Use Safari to view billso.com, book­mark the site, then add the new book­mark to the iPhone home screen as a web­clip. The billso.com logo appears as the web­clip icon!

This page from Pix­el­Box has a quick tuto­r­ial for those who want to add this fea­ture to their own web sites, and this arti­cle by Cameron Hunt has an extra hack that adds a web­clip book­marklet to iPhones.

All of my iPhone related posts can be viewed through this tag link.

As a reminder, I don’t own an iPod or an iPhone… yet. I’m wait­ing for the 2nd gen­er­a­tion iPhone, which will have 3G fea­tures. Both Busi­ness­Week and the New York Times have run arti­cles this week indi­cat­ing that a new model is com­ing this sum­mer. Apple has lim­ited inven­to­ries of cur­rent iPhones in the US.

Good thing, since Sam­sung and Nokia are releas­ing their own high-end smart­phones, accord­ing to this New York Times arti­cle. Con­sumers are dri­ving these changes, after years of tak­ing what­ever phones car­ri­ers would get from the hand­set man­u­fac­tur­ers. Now the man­u­fac­tur­ers are scur­ry­ing to design and deliver mobile phones that rival mini­com­put­ers, while the tele­com car­ri­ers rush to open their networks.

Tagged as: administrivia, Apple, iPhone, iPod, mobile, rss