Comments on: Maybe an RSS reader is better than FriendFeed after all

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:58:01 +0000

I’m a Feedly fan, too, though I’m trying out the new features in Google reader this week…

The “community” aspect of FriendFeed has never been a huge draw for me. I care about the content I want first and the source second… using keyword driven RSS feeds in Google Reader/Feedly helps me keep that order straight.

To me, it seems as if FriendFeed reverses the priority, for better or for worse.

By: Michael Turro

Michael Turro — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:29:02 +0000

I’m exactly the same way with regard to google reader – though I have become a big fan of using it through feedly.

By: Rex Hammock

Rex Hammock — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:03:24 +0000

@Dave – Can’t wait.
@Alin – The post I pointed to explains that Google Reader has added lots of features that make it more community like — liking, commenting, sharing, following, organizing by groups are now all a part of Google Reader. By the way, FriendFeed is an RSS Reader in some ways (I can subscribe to any RSS feed using it). However, they never called it an RSS Reader — or an API Reader, for that matter. Perhaps their best job was in branding.

By: Alin Wagner-Lahmy

Alin Wagner-Lahmy — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:03:13 +0000

To me the main and crucial difference between an RSS feed and FriendFeed is the community aspect – RSS feed is a vertical stream of news, FriendFeed is a much more complex community aggregation that is then subgrouped by topic – so much smarter.

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:39:07 +0000

T-Rex I have a new version of my River2 aggregator in the works.

By: hamish

hamish — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:47:00 +0000

rex – i also am surprised at how relatively rare it is to find google reader users among my acquaintances and that seems related to what’s been called the failure of RSS to gain a wide audience. im not sure what the reason is behind it but it could be unfairly painted as being too technical for laymen although ironically ‘simple’ is part of its name. i, for one, have tried to reduce my dependence on google reader but its just too damn convenient.

i also realize that google reader is most popular in the US and english speaking world. there’s still more to be done in terms of penetrating other markets.

finally, i am constantly surprised by how little google works on its constellation of products (reader, docs, etc) relative to its search business event though they say they are serious about them. makes one hesitant to commit to a company that seemingly has huge resources yet doesn’t seem to do enough with them.

By: Friends of Dave (friendsofdave) 's status on Sunday, 16-Aug-09 02:48:21 UTC - Identi.ca

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:48:30 +0000

[...] http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/08/15/19870 [...]