Mobile Internet aggregator Mobispine AB has acquired Web based feed reader NewsAlloy. The acquisition seems to be aimed at providing users a seamless product that can be viewed both on the mobile phones and PCs.

Acquisition is an interesting word. Often we hear mergers and acquisition. But when one hears the word acquisition it has very different meaning. Merger means the joining of two or more companies while acquisition means the purchase of one company by another.

Nothing negative really. It just implies the direction the two companies are going to take. And
Mobispine, which now has 300,000 plus active mobile users per month, will make use of NewsAlloy to drive momentum to reach its goal of reaching 10 million users.

And they do this by providing improved and easy-to-use service.

Mobispine is available as a free download for Internet-enabled mobile phone.

Other features or services offered by Mobispine include but no limited to the following:

- View Web content

- Save datatime,

- The unique feed search function makes it easy to search the feeds.

I am not really a heavy cellphone user. Normally, I would use it to call or send sms or text messages. Although, as of late I seem to be using it a lot for using Internet-based services - emails and Web 2 applications. Recently, I have been trying the phone’s RSS Reader.

The Financial Costs:

Reading feeds from a cellphone can be done two ways accessing the Internet by Wifi or accessing the Internet by 3G. Both seem fairly reliable. Although the WiFi option is most of the time free and accessing by 3G will cost you money.

Ease of Use:

So far it was easy to set-up a feed into the phone’s feed reader. Similar to what you do when accessing through a computer one just has to subscribe. Two seconds and you are in.

Readability:
The posts that can be read are not full text. And is not as information heavy as its Interenet counterpart. It is basically just the post.

Initial Observations
Readings RSS feeds from the cellphone is practical, easy but at the moment seems to its limitations. Such limitations seem to include:

1. No full text
2. Not all data are included
3. Seems to be practical for only a few feeds.

Its not going to be your main feed reader. However, It seems to be useful as your carry-anywhere RSS reader and Internet device. And its for free if you can access WiFi. And can be used anywhere and anytime as long as there is power in the battery and you have WiFi or 3G connection.

More in a couple of days.

Remember Attention Profiling Mark-up Language or APML in the previous post? I this it? , NewsGator Technologies, Inc. said that it included the filtering capabilities of Uprizer Labs’ SenseArray collaborative filtering into its RSS readers [Source]

According to Uprizer Labs CEO Ian Clarke, SenseArray recommends stories or articles or posts based on a user’s everyday interaction with their NewsGator Reader. Clarke said that based on early tests the system has been very accurate in predicting taste and interests.

Newsgator VP for products Brian Kellner states that “Collaborative filtering” is used already being used to help users find products on Net Flix and Amazon. Kellner adds.“NewsGator is using our huge stream of relevance actions in a truly innovative way with the SenseArray collaborative filter to provide the same kind of recommendation capabilities with RSS articles.”[Source]

So it is APML. It sures smells and sounds like it.

And this is a good thing because it makes RSS user-friendly. It seems to me, at least, that it, SenseArray and APML,far outweighs any concern … for now.

I like the way AdobeAir seems to be stirring up things. And it is stirring up things in a good way. Take for example Snackr. But what is Snackr? Well it is an Adobe Air app that functions as a ticker for RSS feeds.

But what does Snackr do? Oh this is the fun part … Read more

I check and read my feeds on the computer - desktop and my Asus Eee. It has been sometime since I check or read my feeds on cellphone. I might And this is because … well It is choice really like not bringing home work from the office or problems to the dinner table. It is a decision. However, there are times when being able to access one’s feeds on the mobile might be needed and even an advantage.The people at Google seems to know this and now we have Google Reader for the Iphone and other mobile devices.
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According to a post, Rumored Xbox 360 Spring Update Touts “Motion Sensor” Features, Game Installs, on Kotaku the new Xbox will come out with new features.

Any guesses what would be the most interesting feature for A Feed Is Born?

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Would you want to read your Google Reader on your desktop? And would you want to read it indifferent way while at the same time retaining the features of Google Reader? If your answer to both questions is yes then you might want to try ReadAir.

But not before installing AdobeAir.

Wait, how about your OS?
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If you are tired at looking at your computer when reading the latest feeds. Why not try WaSnake. Featured on newlaunches, it is shelf made from wood and elastomer than can be reconfigured to fit almost any shape or purpose, plus it displays SMS and RSS feeds.
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If you have a Mac OS X you might want to try Times. An RSS reader developed by Dustin MacDonald and gives a new and very pretty experience for Mac users.

Why is this so?

What makes Times different from the other Mac RSS Readers?
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Admittedly there is a slight pause when one mentions the word RSS. It is as if a mind cloud seems to hover about a person’s brain when one speaks of it. It does not help that RSS stands for more than one set of words. It just seems to scare the beejesus out of anyone. If I had a penny every time someone tells me that A Feed Is Born is about chicken feeds I would be several pennies richer now. But enough of the rant. Now a software application and service company aims to avoid the word and other such phrases together while delivering the service so to speak. Meet ZebTab and its RSS Agreggator er desktop channels.

What is ZebTab? Well according to its website:
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