Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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One thing I do a lot of on my iPhone is catch up on my RSS feeds. Doing so in Safari leaves a lot to be desired since Safari has a habit of crashing.
The iPhone is fundamentally an awesome device for reading blog posts and news. I can quickly scan through my unread items and read, process, share and star them… from the comfort of my bed or when waiting in line for lunch.
For the past few months I’ve been using an application called Byline from Phantom Phish. Byline is a fantastic RSS reader for Google Reader. It’s simple to use and it just got better. The latest 2.0 release adds many new features, but none more important to me than an integrated browsing experience so that I never have to leave the app to read blog posts and linked articles (which is pretty common).
You can also share, star and add notes when sharing.
To make things even better, it’s being offered right now for $4. I paid $10 for it so if you use Google Reader and have an iPhone I think it’s $4 well spent.