Comments on: in market for new feed reader http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/ Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:40:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: smurfd http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26589 smurfd Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:47:14 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26589 http://flock.com their browser's 1.1beta has a really nice RSS reader built in. works for me. :) http://flock.com their browser’s 1.1beta has a really nice RSS reader built in. works for me. :)

]]> By: Varun Mathur http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26443 Varun Mathur Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:01:18 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26443 Alertle (www.alertle.com) just launched on Feb 8th of this year. Check it out. It offers a completely fresh RSS reading experience and actually grew from my frustration with other rss readers (Reader included). Here's a quick youtube demo of Alertle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztQJ4ec1aWs More detailed demo, info on features, etc is on the blog: http://blog.alertle.com Enjoy ! Alertle (www.alertle.com) just launched on Feb 8th of this year. Check it out. It offers a completely fresh RSS reading experience and actually grew from my frustration with other rss readers (Reader included).

Here’s a quick youtube demo of Alertle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztQJ4ec1aWs

More detailed demo, info on features, etc is on the blog: http://blog.alertle.com

Enjoy !

]]> By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26402 Luis Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:16:31 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26402 Lars: very interesting; unfortunately, when I import my feeds it tells me I need a 'new service level' because I have more than 300 feeds. Bzzzzt. FAIL. Lars: very interesting; unfortunately, when I import my feeds it tells me I need a ‘new service level’ because I have more than 300 feeds. Bzzzzt. FAIL.

]]> By: Joe Smith http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26380 Joe Smith Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:42:37 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26380 I totally recommend Google Reader, by the way. It's awesome, particularly with Google Gears in case you need to work offline. I totally recommend Google Reader, by the way. It’s awesome, particularly with Google Gears in case you need to work offline.

]]> By: Ploum http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26373 Ploum Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:43:32 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26373 Luis > Liferea should do all you want. Simply put the feeds in one folder (that you can "collapse") and use the "non-read" meta folder. With a single click, you can flag items. Flagged items appear in the meta-folder "important". It's very quick, very easy and I use shortcut keys extensively. The only point you will have to investigate is the fonts stuff (mine use Gnome fonts) (And you can subscribe to new feeds with D-Bus, which is a breeze with Epiphany.) Luis > Liferea should do all you want. Simply put the feeds in one folder (that you can “collapse”) and use the “non-read” meta folder.

With a single click, you can flag items. Flagged items appear in the meta-folder “important”.

It’s very quick, very easy and I use shortcut keys extensively.

The only point you will have to investigate is the fonts stuff (mine use Gnome fonts)

(And you can subscribe to new feeds with D-Bus, which is a breeze with Epiphany.)

]]> By: Lars Trieloff http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26372 Lars Trieloff Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:12:26 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26372 Hi Luis, I think your criteria are almost all met by Blogbridge, additionally it supports your bonus killer feature. RIVER OF NEWS VIEW: available, just hide the toolbar in the preferences ’STARRED’ OR ‘FLAGGED’: It is called "pinned" KEYNAV: shortcuts for everything FONTS: available. OPML IMPORT: not only import, but also "subscribe to OPML", so you can subscribe to Planet GNOME's OPML file and new feeds will be added automatically to your reader SUBSCRIBE FROM BROWSER: Works with Firefox NICE BUT NOT MANDATORY: LIBRE: Open Source IF LIBRE: they have regular releases, development snapshots, etc. WEB-BASED: desktop-based, but offers synchronization over a web service REMEMBERS READ/UNREAD: available, with the web service also across multiple boxes BONUS KILLER FEATURE: feature I haven’t seen anywhere1 : I want to be able to mark a feed as a ‘meme source’, and not read it directly, but have the URLs it links to tracked, and if multiple meme sources start linking to the same URL, I want to see that URL. Sort of like techmeme, but with a personalized source list. There is a built-in memetracker: http://www.blogbridge.com/products-services/blogbridge/visual-tour/built-in-meme-tracker/ Hi Luis, I think your criteria are almost all met by Blogbridge, additionally it supports your bonus killer feature.

RIVER OF NEWS VIEW: available, just hide the toolbar in the preferences
’STARRED’ OR ‘FLAGGED’: It is called “pinned”
KEYNAV: shortcuts for everything
FONTS: available.
OPML IMPORT: not only import, but also “subscribe to OPML”, so you can subscribe to Planet GNOME’s OPML file and new feeds will be added automatically to your reader
SUBSCRIBE FROM BROWSER: Works with Firefox
NICE BUT NOT MANDATORY:

LIBRE: Open Source
IF LIBRE: they have regular releases, development snapshots, etc.
WEB-BASED: desktop-based, but offers synchronization over a web service
REMEMBERS READ/UNREAD: available, with the web service also across multiple boxes
BONUS KILLER FEATURE:

feature I haven’t seen anywhere1 : I want to be able to mark a feed as a ‘meme source’, and not read it directly, but have the URLs it links to tracked, and if multiple meme sources start linking to the same URL, I want to see that URL. Sort of like techmeme, but with a personalized source list.

There is a built-in memetracker: http://www.blogbridge.com/products-services/blogbridge/visual-tour/built-in-meme-tracker/

]]> By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26370 Luis Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:14:14 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26370 ravi: interesting, will look at it. (A new mail reader wouldn't kill me either.) Brett: I read between 600 and 800 feed items a day, so unless I got a separate mail account to deal with the feeds, putting them in email would be impracticable. I do think, though, that merging them with email (like ravi's suggestion apparently does, and like Zoe did once upon a time) is probably a solid solution for most people (and might even be for me if my mail solution was more nuanced about what needed my attention Now and what could be held off until later- which maybe is something I should look into.) ravi: interesting, will look at it. (A new mail reader wouldn’t kill me either.)

Brett: I read between 600 and 800 feed items a day, so unless I got a separate mail account to deal with the feeds, putting them in email would be impracticable. I do think, though, that merging them with email (like ravi’s suggestion apparently does, and like Zoe did once upon a time) is probably a solid solution for most people (and might even be for me if my mail solution was more nuanced about what needed my attention Now and what could be held off until later- which maybe is something I should look into.)

]]> By: Dedalus http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26367 Dedalus Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:05:29 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26367 So here's a third vote for Tiny tiny RSS :) And agreed that it's still an active project! So here’s a third vote for Tiny tiny RSS :)
And agreed that it’s still an active project!

]]> By: ravi http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26364 ravi Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:14:17 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26364 Spicebird -- http://www.spicebird.com/ It is based on Mozilla Thunderbird and has integrated mail client, feed reader, calendar and Jabber client. It works well for me. Spicebird — http://www.spicebird.com/

It is based on Mozilla Thunderbird and has integrated mail client, feed reader, calendar and Jabber client.

It works well for me.

]]> By: Brett Smith http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26360 Brett Smith Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:14:25 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/02/09/in-market-for-new-feed-reader/#comment-26360 I'm veering a little away from your specs, but I recently started getting RSS delivered over e-mail, and now I'm a convert. I feel like it gets me all the benefits of a web-based reader, and I get to use my mail client as the interface, which is very good for this sort of thing. I can even read my feeds comfortably from mutt. I started out using Newspipe, and then switched to rss2email when I realized that Newspipe wasn't sending me items from blogspot.com feeds properly. (I didn't spend any time investigating this; for all I know it's been fixed by now. Newspipe has some nice features that rss2email seems to lack, like downloading images from the feed and putting them directly in the e-mail.) Newspipe uses OPML natively, and I think there's a tool for rss2email that will let you import an OPML file too. I’m veering a little away from your specs, but I recently started getting RSS delivered over e-mail, and now I’m a convert. I feel like it gets me all the benefits of a web-based reader, and I get to use my mail client as the interface, which is very good for this sort of thing. I can even read my feeds comfortably from mutt.

I started out using Newspipe, and then switched to rss2email when I realized that Newspipe wasn’t sending me items from blogspot.com feeds properly. (I didn’t spend any time investigating this; for all I know it’s been fixed by now. Newspipe has some nice features that rss2email seems to lack, like downloading images from the feed and putting them directly in the e-mail.) Newspipe uses OPML natively, and I think there’s a tool for rss2email that will let you import an OPML file too.

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