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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 RossP »

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…

Shaun Inman's Fever[1] tries to do some of this. Items that are linked to from multiple feeds float to the top of your reading list. You can also add "sparks", which you will never get to see the contents of however they will be used to help figure out which other items to float up to the top of your list.

Self-hosted, PHP, $30. Works on Desktop and has an iPhone skin as well.

[1] http://feedafever.com/

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

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Post by tlrobinson »

qcassidy wrote: post #75
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…

Google Reader's "sort by magic" (under "View settings") might work for you: """ A third option, Sort by magic will rank items by "magic." Personalized magic ranking is automatically generated, taking into account your past reading behavior (including liking and starring) and global signals. We'll do our best to display items in the most relevant and interesting order -- click the Like button on things you think are i…

Looks promising, I'll try it.

Ideally it would hide all but the top 10 or 50 or 100 posts, and if I finish reading those I could see more. Opening up an RSS reader and seeing hundreds or thousands of unread posts is discouraging.

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

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Post by pkandathil »

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…

There are a couple ways to achieve this: Sites like: Lynk.ly, Summify.com or thesharedweb.com rank your twitter and facebook feeds and give you top links across them.

I follow digg, techcrunch and mashable ... on twtter and get the links across these sites ranked for me.

BTW, disclaimer, I did write lynk.ly with a friend hence I also provided some of the alternatives.

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

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Post by gst »

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…

Wow... One of the few websites for which I immediately bought a premium account.

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

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Post by tednaleid »

I leverage Google Reader, but never go to the website. It stores my subscriptions and current read state. A variety of clients synchronize the latest results. NetNewsWire on the desktop, Reeder on the iPad and NewsRob on my NexusOne Android phone. Not sure which one this falls under, but I picked "No, but I do use another RSS reader on a daily basis".

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

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Post by micampe »

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.

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