Why We Mourn Google Reader - And Why It Matters
The shutdown of Google Reader has sparked outrage among a passionate minority. Here's why we're so upset.
rss & feeds
Articles tagged "RSS & Feeds"
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Sun, 24 June 2012
RWW Recommends: The Best Mobile RSS Reader
RSS lives! Not everything is a real-time stream of status updates from Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Subscribing to an RSS feed is still…
Thu, 24 November 2011
Online Reading Trends in 2011
This time last year I wrote a post outlining how online reading patterns had changed over 2010. The habits and products for reading on the…
Fri, 1 July 2011
Android RSS Readers
With near half a million Android devices being activated every day, there are a lot of people learning the best ways to use their brand…
Tue, 31 May 2011
Killer Quora Thread is a Treasure Trove for Early Adopters
I'll admit I haven't been on Quora as much recently, in large part due to being unceremoniously blocked by the company for subscribing to an…
Fri, 27 May 2011
Developer Creates Tool to Bring RSS Back to Twitter
Earlier this month, entrepreneur and blogger Jesse Stay noticed that both Facebook and Twitter had completely removed support for RSS from…
Mon, 16 May 2011
blekko Partners with Flipboard
This morning, alternative search engine service blekko announced a partnership with hot iPad social magazine Flipboard to power its…
Wed, 4 May 2011
XYDO Feels Like It's Taking The Pageviews Out of Publishers' Mouths
Yesterday XYDO, the service that curates users' Twitter and Facebook streams and adds a layer of social bookmarking a la Reddit or Digg…
Wed, 9 February 2011
My6Sense Chrome Extension Filters Your Tweet Stream on Twitter.com
My6Sense, the personalized recommendation engine for both iOS and Android, comes to the desktop today with a Chrome extension that brings…
Fri, 10 September 2010
The End of Bloglines is Nigh - Will Close October 1
RSS is not dead. But Bloglines, one of the most venerable web-based RSS readers, is about to close shop next month. According to a report on…
Tue, 7 September 2010
The Good Stuff Machine: My6Sense Comes to Android
Using algorithms to give personalized recommendations is hard. A lot of online services try to leverage their users' social graphs to…
Thu, 2 September 2010
Check Out This Awesome RSS Reader for Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 will be available in time for the Holiday Season, Microsoft says, and today the company unveiled a beautiful new RSS reading…
Tue, 31 August 2010
Google Launches Blog Finder for Any Topic
Google has quietly launched a new feature: search for blogs on any topic. The company announced the new type of search in a weekly round-up…
Thu, 12 August 2010
Kiffets: Xerox PARC Aims to Solve Information Overload
Xerox PARC famously invented the graphical user interface (GUI) for modern computers, then just as famously failed to capitalize on it…
Wed, 11 August 2010
SPARQLZ Shines as a Vision for Linked Data Made Easy
SPARQLZ is a stealth technology project aimed to provide a graphical user interface for everyday users to assemble, edit, share and…
Mon, 9 August 2010
Wowd Introduces a Filtered Facebook, Result Not Wowing
Social search company Wowd has introduced a new tool for advanced Facebook search, and it's a desktop app. Actually, it's a desktop app that…
Tue, 20 July 2010
PostRank Live with Google Buzz Firehose
Before now, PostRank, the popular social media analytics service, had to manually crawl all Google Buzz accounts and subscribe to the public…
Miio: If Twitter were FriendFeed, Facebook and an RSS Reader. Wait, What?
Miio is a new microblogging service which is a bit like a mashup between Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook and an RSS reader. Now typically…
Tue, 6 July 2010
Ashes Brings Slick RSS Reader Fever to iPad
Fever, a gorgeous RSS reader we dubbed one of the top syndication technologies of 2009, is now available in iPad format by way of a new…
Mon, 17 May 2010
Lazyfeed Redesign Goes All Web 2.0 on its Bad Self
Lazyfeed, the site we previously described as a "super-simple feed reader" is coming out with a whole new design today that not only makes…
Thu, 13 May 2010
Blog Aggregator Regator Relaunches: New Design, Better Search & Facebook Integration
Regator, the human-curated blog directory and news aggregator, just relaunched with a vastly improved and easier to use design, an…
Tue, 23 March 2010
Fliptop Makes RSS Easy, More Configurable
Fliptop, a new content subscription service, is one of several companies presenting at this week's DEMO conference in Palm Springs. Among…
Mon, 22 March 2010
My6Sense Releases API: 'Digital Intuition' for the Real-Time Web
We trust services like Last.fm or Pandora to learn our musical tastes and serve up custom radio stations, so why not the same for the…
Wed, 10 March 2010
Reader Play: Google Reader's New Fast Flip Style Interface
Google just launched a new Google Labs product for Google Reader: Google Reader Play. Reader Play is a new, highly visual way to browse your…
