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NewsGator Pays Attention
NewsGator CTO Greg Reinacker writes: "We’ve now implemented a persistent APML endpoint in our online platform. What this means is, if you’re using sync with NewsGator Online, there is a well-known URL...
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Share Your NewsGator/FeedDemon Clippings with ReadBurner
About a year ago, I wrote about how link blogs are attention streams. The premise behind that post was that while attention algorithms can uncover what people are paying attention to, the articles...
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ANN: FeedDemon 3.0 Beta 4 with Google Reader Synchronization
It has been fun watching the news spread about the latest FeedDemon 3.0 Beta even though I never “officially” announced it. It started with a couple tweets from me, then spread to Twitter at large and...
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Is Your RSS Reader Broken?
Dare Obasanjo believes that RSS readers which are modeled after email clients are broken: “…it seems to me that the way we think of RSS readers needs to fundamentally change. Presenting information as...
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Lately the geekosphere has been buzzing about how RSS is being replaced by the real-time stream. Instead of getting our information from syndicated blog feeds, we’re now getting it via streams from...
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Perfect Attention (With a Little Help from My Friends)
Back in the summer of 2007, I wrote this post about how aggregators should be able to find articles that interest you by paying attention to what people like you are reading. It's a very simple idea...
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RSS: Dead, Dying or Pining for the Fjords?
I've tried to stay out of the whole "RSS is dead" thing. Really, I have. But just when I think people have stopped saying "RSS is dead," someone comes along and says it again, and everyone gets all...
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Browsers and RSS
Continuing where I left off yesterday, the latest round of "RSS is dead" articles is partly the result of this post by Kroc Camen which claims that RSS is in trouble because browser vendors are failing...
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Anti-social FeedDemon (Killing Features, Part II)
Last night the changes to Google Reader went live, and as promised, they've removed the sharing features. This means that the sharing features in FeedDemon which rely on Google Reader will eventually...
View ArticleUnread Counts
NetNewsWire creator Brent Simmons on unread counts: Nick Bradbury, FeedDemon author, and I have talked many times over the years about how we’d design an RSS reader were we starting over. The first...
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