Introducing Phone Feedr
For the past couple months I have been hard at work on my first big post-Font Burner project. This one is called Phone Feedr and it allows anyone to create an iPhone optimized version of their web site. All you have to do is plugin the address of your site’s RSS feed and pick a custom .phonefeedr subdomain name. This is called a feedr. Think of it as an iPhone web app for your website. Adding it to your phone’s home screen even gives you a nice app icon that you can replace with any image you want.
The site is live, so head on over to phonefeedr.com and test it out. You are some of the first eyes to see it, so if you find bugs or mistakes please let me know!
As a side note, any visitors to this blog will automatically get redirected to my feedr. If you are curious about how to redirect iPhone users to friendlier versions of your site, you can find the script I use here.
For the technically curious, Phone Feedr was built using WordPress MU. The RSS parsing is handled by Simple Pie and the iPhone interface uses iUI. I call the Simple Pie and iUI concoction Pie.ui and have made it available to anyone interested in reusing it.
