Tied in with the start of voting on the N2Y4 mobile challenge - Version 0.1.3 alpha of Community Mobile Channels has been released and is available at Sourceforge. It is now getting close to a beta release and we encourage as much feedback as we can get. This version has a few important changes as well as a number of fixes and improvements.

The major new features are detailed below: -

1. New* RSS Channels --> these channels contain a single rss feed - each item title and description is converted into a m-site and the article linked to via the mowser transcoder. (Standard channels are now called open channels_
2. New* RSS 1.0 feeds for each open channel and a combined open channels RSS feed - This means that different installations of community mobile channels  
3. New* Private Channels --> these channels are only visible to registered users - somethings you do not want the whole world to see.
4. New* Channels can now have a default picture - used as a summary picture if no picture is given on a website
5. New* Channels can be set to not show on the home page - Don't let an RSS feed hog the limelight
6. New* Import Twitter Tweets by username/hashtag etc..
7. New* Viewport set for correct iPhone Display

Other improvements include handling of internal and external links, handling of suspended channels, Favicon, version information and home page links on the site title. You can also switch easily between edit and view modes for m-sites that you are allowed to edit.

Please check out the demo which now includes a feed from the Mzansi Mobile site (which is using Community Mobile Channels) and some other excellent blogs.

Remember the demo user phone number is 1234512345 and the demo password is adapt.

Please help this project get support by voting for it in the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge that has now started.

Many Thanks

Rob Allen