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Filed under Lab on January 4, 2007 by Chris LoSacco

Arc90 Mobile NYT Reader

I am a Treo 700p user, and I lived by Dave Winer's New York Times River. It was great for news reading on the go, and I found myself checking the site daily. Simple in concept, high on return and usability. And in talking to some of the other Arc90 folks, I wasn't the only one who had gotten used to the site. We were bummed when it recently went down for good.

So we've written our own version, the Arc90 Mobile NYT Reader. It takes all of the Times' RSS feeds, combines them into one big river, takes out the duplicates, remaps the links to go to the print versions and runs the result through the Arc90 River Reader to make it suitable for Treo's and other mobile devices.

We also added one additional feature. The river can often grow very large, since we're combining all of the Times' many feeds. If you don't want to load the whole thing, you can pass in an "items" parameter and only retrieve a subset. For example, http://river.arc90.com/nytmobile/?items=5 will give you the five most recent items. So no whining from the EV-DO-less crowd, ok?

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