writer/coder

A couple weeks ago I stumbled across a neat little reading applet called spreeder.com. You copy and paste text into the applet, and then it would flash each word at you one-by-one. The idea being that it forces you to read faster, teaches you speed read or whatever.

To be honest spreeder.com was a little annoying to use because I don’t read one word at a time. It takes a lot of concentration just to follow the story and is not a great experience. I thought it might be usable if it showed groups of words and phrases and put pauses between sentences and paragraphs.

However the little applet struck me as something that would fit very nicely on a small screen.

Well guess what folks. Someone did exactly that. Spreed:News is a relatively new web-app that rolls up an RSS reader with a spreeder-like widget. Spreed:News is a bit better than spreeder.com in that displays a few words at a time, instead of one. And they just launched an iPhone app.

Neat. If I had an iPhone I would give it a try.

They need to get this out for more mobile devices and start working with content providers.