With speculation that Facebook might be launching an RSS reader at its press event next week, it's important to think about why users loved the Google Reader experience. Hint: it wasn't because Google Reader was social.…
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Look, here’s an RSS reader for Google Glass
Here's an RSS reader app for Google Glass. Users can save articles to Pocket or email them to themselves to read later.…
Read MoreWhat Digg’s Google Reader replacement can teach us about the future of social news
Digg isn't a newcomer to the social news scene -- in fact, it helped pioneer the concept. But the folks at Betaworks are re-imaginging social news for 2013, and the RSS reader they plan to launch in late June will play an integral role.…
Read MoreNetvibes goes social with new enterprise offering
Netvibes, the San Francisco-based startup that allows people and brands to create personalized RSS feed dashboards, has added social analytics capabilities to its web content monitoring platform. But can the company hold its own in today's world of hyper-funded and hungry social media analytics startups?…
Read MoreReeder for Mac arrives, looks like the future of Mac apps
Even with Twitter, Facebook and so many other social discovery tools popping up, I'm still a big fan of good old-fashioned RSS for my reading needs. That's why I'm excited about the release of Reeder for Mac, which is now available on the Mac App Store.…
Read More3 Places to Discover New and Relevant Content
Web workers are a busy group, and it can be too easy to get buried in our work while rarely surfacing to keep up with the latest news, trends and other information that we should be learning.…
Read MoreIs Twitter Replacing the RSS Reader?
Last Friday, I was attending Portland’s weekly Beer and Blog event, and I stumbled across what later turned out to be an…
Read MoreNetvibes Adds Multiple Personalized Page Support
I’ve been using Netvibes to make monitoring dashboards for clients because I like the visual dashboard layout and have found that it…
Read MoreMore Efficient RSS Reading
In my recent post about using Harvest to track my time, I discovered that I was spending too much of my time…
Read MoreWorking in San Francisco
It’s been pretty quiet here on jkOnTheRun the past few days due to a whirlwind schedule of traveling and meetings for both…
Read MoreVid-Biz: Money, Blip.tv, YouTube “Virus”
Online Video Companies Raise $75 Million in the Past Two Months; despite economic gloom and doom, VCs still opening their wallets to…
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