Digg launched a bunch of mobile friendly sites today, all accessbile at diggriver.com/about. Technology stories, for example, can be viewed here. All graphics and other unnecessary information has been completely stripped off this data, allowing it to load on a mobile device as quickly as possible.
This site is an experiment to see how we can make digg news easily available to mobile web browsers.
We display the latest popular stories on digg, updated continuously, as stories are available. You can read the news on a Blackberry, Treo, or cell phone on the train, in the line at the grocery, or in a boring meeting.
What’s interesting (and cool) is that Digg thanks Dave Winer in the footer of the page, saying “Props to Dave Winer for popularizing the idea of the river of news, again!”. As usual, Dave has been imagining a better way to do things. Recently, he’s turned his attention to mobile applications, which we covered recently.
Simple is better. This stuff is dead simple and it works. Perfect.
Our previous coverage of Digg is here.
Why register a new domain name when they could just have digg.com/m or m.digg.com…. regardless it’s nice to see a big site providing this service. Although it’s not like it’s really that hard to do since the layout and design is as simple as possible, like web pages used to be back in the Mosaic days. I made a mobile version of one of my sites in under 2 hours because it’s so easy to do.
Let’s hope more sites do this type of thing.
popurls has included digg in their mobile version ever since.
http://m.popurls.com
So I suppose my http://diggpsp.com site is useless now.
Perhaps this rants site could help – http://www.thingsucks.com
Can Digg be included in AvantGo so that I can sychronise the news with my PDA.
The age old principle of KISS is still alive and strong.
Hm……. give credit where credit is due man…. I’ve been shipping Tailrank mobile for a lot longer
http://m.tailrank.com
OMG SOMEONE THANKED SOMEONE FOR SOMETHING
rofl @ Mr. Wag
It’s cool to see the trend catching on, but both Nokia and SonyEricsson have been shipping phones with web browsers capable of reading and rendering RSS feeds in the ‘river of news’ fashion since at least last year (eg. N70, E61, K510i), so this concept is not new. Also, Opera Mini/Mobile can render any page in simplified form that makes it look like Dave’s river of news.
There is lots of prior art available, but I guess it has to be called ‘new’ to make investors open their checkbooks and give bloggers something to write about.
On a side-note, I predict that a lot of money will spent on the .mobi domains (the longest top-level domain, just what a 12-key keypad users need).
isn’t this what .mobi is for? Shouldn’t they already have a .mobi for digg? Will I be the only nerd updating my blackberry links on 9/26? wtf?!
You don’t need to keep a separate domain for mobile content, just detect what the browser expects to receive and send it XHTML, WML, or other stuff as needed. Detecting the type of content that different browsers expect is a piece of cake. All we need to make it work smoothly is additional functionality of blog and CMS software.
.mobi is yet another way to extract money from trademark holders all over the world. It makes as much sense as .xxx.
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Pls i need the membership form,to enable me become a member.