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Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by encoderer »

I changed an ex-girlfriends life with Reader -- I swear to god. She's a (semi) extreme couponer and deal hunter. Every day there's dozens of give-away's. Good, expensive stuff. Be the first 100 to click on this link, or the first 25 to take that survey, etc. She followed a dozen+ blogs every day to stay current on these things.

When I set her up in Reader and she discovered the "Next Item" button, it changed her life. It was really pretty great to be able to help her like that and see her eyes light up.

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by conesus »

micampe wrote: post #90
conesus wrote: post #76

I used to use Google Reader, but I found that I missed seeing the original site and that I couldn't easily filter out stories I didn't want to read. So I built NewsBlur -- http://www.newsblur.com . It's open-source and I'd love if more folks followed my development: http://github.com/samuelclay . It's been a weekend project but it's been a wild ride so far. One of my main goals is to have much of the functionality of…

Hey, not my thing but the way you detect the current post and synchronize the list and content is really slick. Also, no offense, but you should ask some designer friend to polish the UI because this looks very good already and it can be even better.

I'm a hacker, what can I say? The design I think makes a lot of intuitive sense. The visual layout leaves a little something to be desired. But then again, that's how you know NewsBlur is legit and not some fly-by-night.

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by zachman1094 »

conesus wrote: post #76

I used to use Google Reader, but I found that I missed seeing the original site and that I couldn't easily filter out stories I didn't want to read. So I built NewsBlur -- http://www.newsblur.com . It's open-source and I'd love if more folks followed my development: http://github.com/samuelclay . It's been a weekend project but it's been a wild ride so far. One of my main goals is to have much of the functionality of…

Love NewsBlur--moved all my feeds from Google Reader over and am planning to tell all my friends about it :)

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by sigil »

tlrobinson wrote: post #70

I used to go through cycles reading RSS feeds and declaring RSS bankruptcy, but I've given up. I need a priority queue RSS reader. Show me the N most "important" posts across all my feeds since I last visited. Importance would be calculated a number of ways: * Prioritize posts from low volume feeds. I probably want to see every post from a friend who blogs once a month, but not every post from Engadget. * Most favori…

We're building a "Priority Inbox for News" that's the opposite of sort by magic: all the factors that determine priority (you mention some of the key ones) can be exposed and tweaked.

Sign on up! We're close to alpha.

http://signup.linktamer.com/

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by micampe »

conesus wrote: post #93
micampe wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, not my thing but the way you detect the current post and synchronize the list and content is really slick. Also, no offense, but you should ask some designer friend to polish the UI because this looks very good already and it can be even better.

I'm a hacker, what can I say? The design I think makes a lot of intuitive sense. The visual layout leaves a little something to be desired. But then again, that's how you know NewsBlur is legit and not some fly-by-night.

Yes, I was talking mostly about visuals. But again, very good job.
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