Tag: feed_reader

  • Finally, an outstanding online RSS reader

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have had issues with Google Reader (Google’s online RSS/feed reader) in the past but in the latest update to Google Reader, released today most of those issues have been addressed. Lots of people are posting opinions on this from Marshall Kirkpatrick on TechCrunch to Robert Scoble on Scobleizer to Richard McManus on the ReadWrite…

  • Google Reader – how to delete feeds

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    Tom Raftery
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    Google Reader is one of the better online feed readers. It sports a nice ajaxy interface and runs reasonably speedily. However, I have 239 feeds in my Google Reader account now and I wish to delete most of these. The only problem is that there doesn’t appear to be a way to delete more than…

  • NetNewsWire updated to 2.1

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    Tom Raftery
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    Via Chris Messina, I see that my feed reader of choice, NetNewsWire, has been updated to v2.1. I downloaded the new version this morning and although I was downloading the beta’s as they rolled out, 2.1 seems to be a huge step forward. The biggest issue I had with the latest beta (2.1b37) was that…

  • Google launches online rss feed reader

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    Tom Raftery
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    In case you missed it, Google launched their online feed reader application Google Reader (in Beta) on Friday. Google Reader has an amazing interface built in Ajax and uses a “Lens” analogy for reading feeds. I can’t help but think though that the interface actually sacrifices usability for looks. The interface seems, almost, to get…

  • What exactly is RSS?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Have you heard about RSS and wondered what exactly it is? Well in technospeak RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a family of XML file formats for web syndication. To put it more simply, the technology behind RSS allows internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds so that…