Birthday Cards Go Mobile
By Sandy Baker, Sat Dec 10th

If you didn't know it, you can send a card or othergreeting card through your cell phone. In fact, this is one ofthe largest markets for greeting card makers. It has long beentold that anything that could be done on a computer would be andthat goes for sending friends and family well wishes.

The industry itself is part of the ever growing demand to stayconnected. Over recent years, the mobile phone industry hasgained considerable amounts of technology. Cameras, games andjust the fact that you can browse the web from your phone havebecome the foundation for the business of cell phones. Mostpeople want to stay connected and they want anything that theycan do online to be available right on their cell phones. Mobilegreeting cards are just one of those things!

So, consider this. If you know that your friend's isnext month and you just can't afford to miss it, you can programthat into your cell phone and get a reminder message. Not onlythat, but you can even get a card off to her throughthe use of your mobile service. A few clicks of the button

andshe's happy. It's well known that mobile phones can do justabout anything these days!

Of course, this doesn't just go for cards. Why not getthe Christmas card list going and send them through the phone? Ecards, as they are called, are slowly becoming the way of lifein many areas. It takes seconds to get them together. No stamps,no envelopes and so much less time are all factors that haveencouraged greeting cards on mobile phones and the web to do sowell. Services can even be set up to remind you that it is yourfriend's so you can be the first person to wish them agood day! Mobile greetings will continue to increase in demandbecause of the ease of use, the inexpensive costs, and the everadvancing technology that is offered.

About the author:Sandy Baker is a well respected writer and recommends using freeecards, for the next greetings you send, via your mobilephone.

By: kuttu
i want a feed to connect forum and blog
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By: Ian Sealy
Sorry about the delay in replying. A very busy couple of weeks. I doubt that having a large feed is a problem, but I think that having two separate feeds would be best. That way people can just choose which one they prefer. Thanks for looking at this.
By: Unofficial DreamHost Blog
Ian - Just realised that I misread your comment. Somehow I thought that you wanted a feed for each forum (category/board). Sorry! Ian, Josh - I've now experimented with a feed that includes all the posts' content. It works pretty well, and it's really nice to be able to read the entire post in a feedreader. The only problem is that the rss-file is around 150 kb. Is this too much? Would it be better to limit the feed to only last 24 hours (currently it contains last 48 hours), or to only include excerpts. Another option would be to keep the existing rss feed with headlines only and then have another full post feed as an alternative. I would really like to hear your opinion on this... Thanks.
By: Unofficial DreamHost Blog
Josh - I agree that it would be more useful, but it would also require that I requested and parsed every single post in the feed every time I regenerate the RSS file (every 5 minutes) or saved a copy of every post in a database. I might give it a try, but I won't promise anything...
By: Josh Santangelo
Seems to work fine, but it would be far more useful if the actual post content were included.
By: Unofficial DreamHost Blog
Ian - I guess that would be possible. Let's wait a couple of days to see if there's any problems with the main feed. <del>If more people would like category specific feeds please say ai!</del>
By: Ian Sealy
Would it be possible to put each forum post's content in the feed?