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By: Are Some Social Media Sites Just RSS Aggregators? | Steinar Knutsen | Charlottesville Internet and Technology Marketing

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New Comm Biz » What Makes for a Well Balanced Media Diet? — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:07:25 +0000

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By: Stranica

Stranica — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:15:50 +0000

Eric, I think MyYahoo and iGoogle are beyond the standard. I guess they make standarts ;)

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:47:02 +0000

Great comments all.

Louis, I agree that MyYahoo and iGoogle are “more standard” for today’s “mainstream” user, but it’s interesting to note how those sites are being influenced by more “power user” or edge-centered sites.

Personally, I use a combination of Google Reader, FriendFeed, Twitter, Techmeme, and other news sites to keep up, but freely admit that it’s rather time consuming and at times can be a bit overwhelming.

By: Louis Moynihan

Louis Moynihan — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:13:01 +0000

Agreed. It is true that social sites will become feed readers. it is also true that Google Reader is for the power user and not the standard web user. What’s more of a standard web user experience is MyYahoo, iGoogle and Netvibes. The home page is where standard web users will consume their top ten feeds, and this is where you will see feed filtering and ranking improve our feed relevancy. Of course your Twitter and Facebook feeds can live there too, and God Forbid! Twitter becoming your home page is also possible. I don’t see any one company winning the Home Page race, but regardless of what home page standard surfers use in the future, RSS feeds will power them in an invisible and user friendly way. RSS is already being adopted in sufficient numbers, but it is about to be treated to some great efficiency upgrades that will propel it into full adoption. The more RSS becomes invisible, and the more we can personalize the content we want to receive the better for everyone. There will be no celebration when RSS becomes fully adopted, it is a silent revolution. I might raise a glass or a bottle of champagne, but don’t tell anyone.

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Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links - May 7, 2009 « Sazbean — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:26:08 +0000

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By: ascrivner

ascrivner — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:28:13 +0000

It definitely does embrace social web, it’s just not a chat client. My reader feed is published to friendfeed, what else does it need to do?

a.s.

By: Roland Legrand

Roland Legrand — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:57:15 +0000

@anthonyc I think I agree that Google Reader will never go completely mainstream. I even have a hard time convincing fellow journalists to use it.

For me it is an extremely valuable tool, but for most people it seems to be too complicated and ugly – not to mention the fact that it does not succeed in fully embracing the “social web” thinking.

This being said, I’ll have to experiment a lot more with the social network sites before deciding to give up Google Reader – for now I think social networks cannot replace the regular feed readers, but they do enable conversations.

By: Is RSS Really Dying? | Mark Evans

Is RSS Really Dying? | Mark Evans — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:17:46 +0000

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What to read on the GigaOM network — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:52:12 +0000

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By: KerrieAnne Christian

KerrieAnne Christian — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:20:52 +0000

agree with ascrivener
“I doubt anything will be able to replace Google reader for me. I subscribe to about 100 rss feeds, and there is nothing out there that even comes close to it’s speed and ease of use.”

I rss feed my Twitter Favs into Google Reader where I tag them and then share key posts with members of my COP’s

I just wish I could tag favourites in Twitter

but I like having it all in Google – can’t understand why more people don’t use it – so efficient to scan so much from one’s identified trusted and respected sites

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Wed, 06 May 2009 10:01:28 +0000

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By: Justin Korn

Justin Korn — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:19:51 +0000

Great write up and thanks for the mention. There have been a lot of changes and developments in FriendFeed since I wrote the post linked above and think it might be time to revisit it. I agree with your article and disagree with a few of the comments above. Google Reader may not disappear soon, but if it doesn’t evolve (which it already has started to do) it will be extinct in the next 5 years.

By: Using Social Media Sites As “RSS Readers” ¦ Online Media Cultist

Wed, 06 May 2009 02:19:42 +0000

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By: anthonyc

anthonyc — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:18:35 +0000

Unfortunately, pure RSS readers like Google Reader will never go completely mainstream I believe. It’s just not a practical product for the causal browser, which is the category that most fall into. Whereas as people who’s livelihood depends upon them having the newest published info on the web absolutely cant get by without aggregated content.

That being said, there’s something about you dictating the information sources vs them being dispensed to you via twitter, friendfeed, etc.

Rarely does a piece of information come to me via twitter/friendfeed, that I haven’t already seen in one my feeds.

By: Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin Khodabakchian — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:56:44 +0000

Interesting article. Feedly (http://www.feedly.com) tries to bring the concept of RSS and social filtering together by tighly integrating with Google Reader, Twitter and Friendfeed while letting the user control how the information in filtered and displayed. Have you had the chance to try feedly? Pros? Cons?