Comments on: Is it over for RSS readers?

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:30:42 +0000

My 1st reaction to Twitter was: “This is the biggest fskin’ waste of time ever invented.” Then I had an ah-ha moment. There are some good iPhone clients for Twitter including the iPhone Twitterific app plus Hahlo. As to 1% – I think that’s over stating it by a mile. More like 0.0001%.

We’re developing something that can (in the 1st use case) be seen as an auto discovery mechanism in extended network environments. The initial questions is: “Does anyone know why this sales portal is performing badly, users are reverting to manual input?” That’s in an SAP environment (We thought we’d start somewhere easy ) but can go out to the whole network.

ESME (as we call it) though we know say Project Harpoon (as in the Fail Whale) seeks to address that in a massively scalable way by using a combination of auto created groups based on tag clouds generated in different ways.

To Vinnie’s point – yep – I’m not saying otherwise, but I really want a single point of access to all the breadcrumbs people in whom I’m interested are leaving. Twitter allows me that cos people can autopost their stuff there and I can pick up accordingly.

An alternative is FriendFeed but I’m not sure I really like that as much, even though I can get threaded conversations there which I can’t at Twitter and which also has a neat iPhone app with FFToGo.

By: Cale Bruckner

Cale Bruckner — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:06:14 +0000

I’ve been pruning my Google Reader subscriptions recently. I have a “For Morning Coffee” folder that I hit fairly frequently but the subscriptions in that folder are mostly to aggregators like “Items shared by Robert Scoble” and TechCrunch. I let them do the work of finding the relevant and interesting stuff – I just don’t have the time. I use the Twitter stream, supplied by twhirl and a-listers and their friends, to keep a pulse on things and occasionally stumble into the weird and interesting.

By: The Gay Bar

The Gay Bar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:00:13 +0000

Outsourcing the gathering of information: Is RSS slowly going away?…

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RSS is everywhere nowadays, you can hardly find a web service that doesn’t publish some kind of feed, showing your activity within the service.

For quite some time now, many people rely on feed readers to aggregate th…

By: Janet Fouts

Janet Fouts — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:35:04 +0000

I don’t think RSS is dead. I admit that I get 80% of my links from Twitter and FF, but then I will subscribe to the feed for the writers I want to follow. I like to spend some time every day cruising the feeds to see what people are saying. I would miss a lot of good information if I only got info from Twitter and FF.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:34:16 +0000

I do use a reader. When I can’t find anything interesting on FF or Twitter for a while. And I do make it part of the daily routine. But I still catch myself not using a reader for days at a time.

By: vinnie mirchandani

vinnie mirchandani — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:39:37 +0000

I am with Richard.

Dennis, you know what delights me – hits on 1-2-3 year old posts of mine. I am prouder of my “evergreen” stuff than “breaking news” kind of stuff.

So RSS is not dead, and neither is Google search or links from other bloggers who I respect and link to and they link to mine…to me a balanced set of readers across these “channels” is important…