14 DAY TRIAL // A new free and customizable web service has recently merged from Plusmo, a company located in San Jose.
Plusmo includes three ways for viewing web content on a mobile device: "Feeds", "Gadgets" and "Channels" which, according to the company, are gateways to any kind of web content.
Plusmo Feeds are XML/RSS-based resources added to the service by users that can include consumer-generated content such as blogs, MySpace profiles and photos, as well as professional media like news feeds and other XML-bazat content.
Plusmo Gadgets are small utilities, such as traffic reports, a "Pizza Hut Locator", LiveJournal and MySpace user Gadgets, Google news and so on.
Plusmo Channels are combinations of Feeds and Gadgets created by users. For example, a "Gadgets Galore" Channel combines the popular Engadget and Gizmodo gadget blogs into a single Channel. The "VideoGamer" Channel combines Joystiq, Kotaku and Engadget feeds.
Plusmo is free for users and free for content providers to make their feeds and services available on Plusmo. Since the unannounced launch of the alpha version of Plusmo six weeks ago, users from more than 110 countries and 90 mobile phone service providers have downloaded and used it.
Plusmo supports Java MIDP 2.0 and MIDP 1.0 enabled mobile phones, RIM Blackberry devices, Windows Mobile Smart phones, Palm Treos and Pocket PC-enabled PDAs. The company will soon announce support for new devices and operating systems such as BREW version and a native Symbian version.
The Plusmo service is currently in beta and can be downloaded at www.plusmo.com.