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By: admin

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:53:03 +0000

@honest_ape
I tend to open tons of tabs, so I do not use the feedreader in the same way you do. However, I do agree that the news aggregators probably won’t replace feedreaders, but possibly augment them.

Though I have thought about removing the standard news sources from my feedreader, and mostly keeping blogs in my reader. The standard news sources are easily found in the news aggregators.

By: honest ape

honest ape — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:14:13 +0000

It’s a neat idea, and well executed in all three cases (though Original Signal is trying to switch it up a bit), but it comes down to this: None are going to replace my feed reader.

With my feed reader, I can read all my news in one spot, without opening new tabs all over the place. With the aggregators, each link opens a new tab. Understandably so, but it just won’t work for me. And I can also understand why they don’t want to add rss support, as it removes them from the equation.

So, bottom line: They’re cool and will benefit some, but they’re not something I’ll ever use. I’ll just visit them and find feeds I like to add to my reader.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:35:10 +0000

@Thomas

That was my point actually. Most people are used to logging in to get their customizations. It is more of an oddity than anything, because most sites have their own authentication as well as accepting openid.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:14:46 +0000

you don’t need openid on popurls - it’s a permanent alternative to cookie-based customization, also it’s a basis for personal content recommendation and other stuff on popurls.net