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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 tcarnell »

tcarnell wrote: post #240
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…

Very Impressive! I've been working on a number of 'content extraction' tools - cQuery.com and webXtract (experimental), but maybe you would find them a useful way to extract news and headlines from hundreds of online sources. Here is an experiment that uses 'profiles' as a basis for content extraction: http://webxtract.com/content-extractor

If you are interested, feel free to get in touch - anything to help NewsBlur!

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

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Post by pauljonas »

Love Google Reader, have ~2,500 subscriptions, it is the only RSS reader that could handle such volume -- NetNewsWire make my Mac sputter and smoke with only ~300 feeds or so.

Many might be aghast at the humungous subscription set, but I do not do RSS like email -- it is more akin to a stream I surf, skim and dip. And it is lightning fast, permitting me to breeze through content in a rapid pace.

That said, I am astonished at how Google has allowed it to languish and stagnate, or by adding incomplete and inconsequential features.

* One of the big reasons I made the switch was the ability to search feeds, but sadly, of late, it looks like "search" (which I thought was the bread and butter Google raison d'être) functionality has deteriorated, not as robust or comprehensive as even a year ago or few months ago.

* No public API.

* Control to let me jump in at a given time point in the stream. Sometimes due to just mistakenly hitting a hotkey that refreshes and resets when I'm in the middle of a stream. Or it might be that I just want to jump to feeds earlier than 8 hours ago, 3 days ago, or 3 months ago.

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

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Post by radonc »

Best way is to use Google Reader with Post Rank plugin. They have one for Opera and Chrome but not for Firefox. It filters your stream based on how the article has interacted in real time; I think it is a measure of social metrics.

Despite constant emailing, PostRank has not released an add on for Firefox and now they have been acquired by Google; I doubt whether Google would even care for the "other browser"

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

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Post by carterschonwald »

abraham wrote: post #153
carterschonwald wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is an example you have? It seems that it has historic posts as long as anyone else every has followed the feed via Reader previously. Likewise, it won't display old posts in the list, but will dynamically load them as you "try" to scroll down. Perhaps one of these is what would happen for you?

There isn't a specific example feed. It used to happen for all unread posts. I don't know if it still happens or not as I don't leave enough posts unread anymore. The exact behavior was with several hundred unread posts in Reader with the oldest unread being 2-3 months old the oldest posts would slowly disappear. I know it was happening because they would be posts I wanted to read but didn't have time to so I would n…

this is actually (apparently) a intentional behavior, old posts that you never personally marked unread will after a month or several be marked read. I only recently discovered this myself, and yes it is an intentional behavior. (how else would you be able to handle reading all the newer articles? :p)

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

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Post by abraham »

carterschonwald wrote: post #246
abraham wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't a specific example feed. It used to happen for all unread posts. I don't know if it still happens or not as I don't leave enough posts unread anymore. The exact behavior was with several hundred unread posts in Reader with the oldest unread being 2-3 months old the oldest posts would slowly disappear. I know it was happening because they would be posts I wanted to read but didn't have time to so I would n…

this is actually (apparently) a intentional behavior, old posts that you never personally marked unread will after a month or several be marked read. I only recently discovered this myself, and yes it is an intentional behavior. (how else would you be able to handle reading all the newer articles? :p)

Interesting. I always assumed it was just Google trying to keep the resources used by Reader to a more manageable level.

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

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Post by hdx »

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…

Very nice, I luv it! The one thing I can say I don't like is the blurred logo... gives me a headache :)
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