MobilePlay Beta

By Paul Kedrosky · Monday, December 26, 2005 ·
Has anyone been able to get MobilePlay to work yet? The beta from the Rustic Canyon-backed firm has launched, and it has solid Treo support -- as well as integrated readings apps for a one-off list of Nick Denton's blogs -- but while I could download the app to my Treo, it has, so far, failed repeatedly on attempted wireless synch to news sources.

[Update] Okay, I got in, and I now wish I hadn't bothered. Whatever else MobilePlay's merits, you get a cleaner and more economical view of news via the mobile version of Bloglines. I thought the days of over-branded news content, a time when a third (and sometimes more) of the screen was taken up by logos and ads, was long gone. Apparently not. Ugh.

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