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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 there »

i used bloglines for a long time until they started having problems with feeds not consistently updating. i was comfortable with their interface, so i just duplicated it (http://den.im/ - http://i.imgur.com/0e8jc.png) and created all of the code underneath to fetch feeds.

i added twitter oauth support so that twitter streams look and update just like rss feeds (but with posting/replying support). i added voting so that there could be a frontpage full of popular stories, and a mobile version that looks decent on android/iphone.

but by then google reader had taken off and my few beta users had switched to that, so now i'm the only one still using it and the voting is useless. i'd probably just abandon it for something else but i haven't seen anything that integrates rss feeds, twitter, package tracking, and has a decent mobile interface. so for now it just remains a side project.

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

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Post by orofino »

Adaptive wrote: post #45

Reader is also great for managing podcasts via "Listen" (Google's Android Podcast app). Nice because they show up with the rest of my RSS feeds.

This actually annoys me, if I mark a new podcast read in reader it never downloads and queues on the phone if it hasn't already polled and seen the new item. I end up marking them unread over and over until I check to see if my phone has actually downloaded them.

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

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Post by shinratdr »

ugh wrote: post #23

Do you mean Reader as a service or Reader as a web app? I use Reader clients across all my devices daily, I wouldn’t be caught dead using the Reader web app daily. It’s horrific. (I will use it if I happen to be in front of a device where I cannot install anything and only have access to a web browser.) The service is great, the web app is not.

> I will use it if I happen to be in front of a device where I cannot install anything and only have access to a web browser.

Really? Usually in situations like that I either pull out my phone and use Reeder for iOS or visit the websites directly. Google Reeder's web client might as well not exist, it's just so bad. I'm actually kind of surprised there isn't a Google Reader web app replacement that is popular or well known. I would be interested in a "Reeder in the browser" solution like that occasionally.

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

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Post by sygeek »

there wrote: post #51

i used bloglines for a long time until they started having problems with feeds not consistently updating. i was comfortable with their interface, so i just duplicated it ( http://den.im/ - http://i.imgur.com/0e8jc.png ) and created all of the code underneath to fetch feeds. i added twitter oauth support so that twitter streams look and update just like rss feeds (but with posting/replying support). i added voting so…

I would love to try out den.im. I will appreciate if you share an invitation with me. (email address is in profile details)

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

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Post by sraquo »

smhinsey wrote: post #4

It's been basically my primary portal to the internet since it came out. Other than HN and reddit, which don't really produce super useful feeds, I don't really browse any sites directly anymore. I have always been looking for the next big thing to replace it, since there hasn't been a tremendous amount of effort put into it lately, but nothing has compared. The feature that I have been sort of daydreaming about is t…

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