Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Comments on Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS

Comment by delsin on "Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS"

suppressed@unknown.org (delsin) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:32:21 GMT

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Comment by maclan on "Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS"

suppressed@unknown.org (maclan) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:05:54 GMT

The RSS future is so bright and thanks to sharing this informative post.

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Comment by muhtar on "Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS"

suppressed@unknown.org (muhtar) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:40:40 GMT

Thank you for your sharing.!

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Comment by Shawn McCollum on "Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS"

suppressed@unknown.org (Shawn McCollum) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:01:01 GMT

Neil, I think the issue is not that RSS readers think of themselves as RSS readers but that they focus on the feed as the organizational structure, when they should be putting the emphasis on the article, like fever does. I've been hacking my own reader for a bit, my name should link to my blog about it. Dare, I'd like (and might build) a reader that separates tweets with links and those without, maybe even manually decide how it's handled per stream. tweets with links would act somewhat like a google shared item feed and tweets without would show in the same application similarly to seeesmic or other twitter clients.

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Comment by Charles Darke on "Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS"

suppressed@unknown.org (Charles Darke) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:35:59 GMT

I subscribe to twitter via the RSS feeds and pull them into my homebaked RSS reader. You can see it here: http://digitalconsumption.com/feeds/ As you can see, it's done as a stream of articles - so none of the 'management' aspects of marking items read or unread. In the non-public view I can also go back in time to look at earlier posts and bookmark some for reference later.

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Comment by gxg on "Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS"

suppressed@unknown.org (gxg) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:06:30 GMT

Maybe I'm "conservative", but what's wrong with using Google reader in list view? I get headlines, like in Twitter, and it's much easier to read news you are interested in, because Google Reader loads them faster (full feeds at least) than clicking on the link in Twitter and waiting for the whole page (with adds!) to load!

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Comment by Jason Lefkowitz on "Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS"

suppressed@unknown.org (Jason Lefkowitz) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:48:32 GMT

I remember being struck dumb years ago (2002? 2003? yeesh, how time flies) by the sheer potential of Abe Fettig's HEP -- an early attempt to "flatten" the online experience by providing a consistent interface to feeds, email, blogs, etc. Of course it has lots of rough edges, it's completely stagnated since then, isn't really mobile-focused, doesn't incorporate Twitter or other Web 2.0 platforms, etc etc etc. But I'm still amazed that in all the years since I first saw it that potential is still unrealized...

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Comment by Tommy Williams on "Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS"

suppressed@unknown.org (Tommy Williams) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:11:51 GMT

Have you looked at http://friendbinder.com? It's like FriendFeed going the other way--rather than relying on other people to join the service and publish their info, you pull in your contacts from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. *and* you can add RSS feeds to any friend's stream in the system. The UI is kind of noisy with all the various services in the stream, but it lets you create tags for the various friend streams as well--something I wanted to do with Twitter lists but was stymied by their 20-list limit.

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Comment by Waseem Sadiq on "Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS"

suppressed@unknown.org (Waseem Sadiq) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:08:22 GMT

[disclaimer: I am the CTO of Inbox2] Hi Dare, Check out www.inbox2.com where we are marying email with Twitter/Facebook/Yammer/etc. We have not added RSS feeds yet but this is on the horizon. Within a few weeks we will be launching a native desktop client that brings quite an interesting take on the intersection of email/the social web and rss to the table. Here is an invite code you could use: "waseemfriends" (without the quotes). Would love to hear your thoughts on this area if you can find the time (waseem at inbox2 dot com). Regards, Waseem

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Comment by Neil on "Brizzly, Seesmic Web and the Future of RSS"

suppressed@unknown.org (Neil) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:20:49 GMT

I think the main problem with RSS Readers is they think of themselves as RSS Readers. Like you mention, they bring the email metaphor to RSS, but fail to help you make sense of the much higher volume of items. I've used both Seesmic and Brizzly, and prefer Brizzly between the two of them. It does an admirable job being a twitter interface but I find it much better for Facebook than actually going to the FB site. The app I'm the saddest about is Omea, I really liked the direction it was going where it'd bring all your info together. Its what a next gen of Outlook should/could be. Sadly, Jetbrains stopped development of it a few years ago, but did release the code publicly. It has a big problem of not having any option for a mobile interface, but I think that the spirit of the app is the direction our aggregators should go. I currently use Fever as my reader of choice, its a pretty decent option if you have a server somewhere to stash it on. I'm experimenting with adding some custom code around it to better integrate twitter into the experience, creating sort of a metacontact record for people to associate their various feeds (i'm cheating and consuming twitter via XML). I'd be interested in seeing what other people are hacking together in their own environments to meet the same need.

Posted by: Neil