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betaworks: The Future of the Feed, the Read, and the Reader

superfeedr — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:39:46 -0400

betaworks: The Future of the Feed, the Read, and the Reader:

This week brought Google’s long-feared announcement that it will euthanize Google Reader, which will cease July 1. Some are interpreting the move as a death knell for RSS. And indeed, where RSS (and Atom) used to be the only widely-used, machine-readable feed infrastructure for Internet content,…

"With the open, federated web, when you follow me, you follow me from wherever you are, wherever I..."

superfeedr — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:25:53 -0400

“With the open, federated web, when you follow me, you follow me from wherever you are, wherever I am.”

- Superfeedr : Users don’t care

"We sincerely hope WebIntents become ubiquitous, supported by all modern browsers, as well as by all..."

superfeedr — Tue, 29 May 2012 09:37:19 -0400

“We sincerely hope WebIntents become ubiquitous, supported by all modern browsers, as well as by all web application makers. They’re links 2.0, and the faster we get there, the better for the web!”

- Superfeedr : WebIntents are links 2.0

"These three people went on a campaign to plant a meme about RSS that I still hear about every day,..."

superfeedr — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:45:06 -0400

“These three people went on a campaign to plant a meme about RSS that I still hear about every day, usually in the form of a well-intentioned person saying that RSS isn’t you-know-what. Every time this happens I put a pin in virtual voodoo dolls of each of their spirits, esp since two of them are former friends. For some reason they decided to put this bell around RSS’s neck. Their idea worked. It didn’t hurt RSS, it just gave it a smell that isn’t very nice.”

- Scripting News: Death in the news

"Genestoux gave us 250 invites for our readers. Just click here to download the Chrome plugin and..."

superfeedr — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:54:35 -0400

“Genestoux gave us 250 invites for our readers. Just click here to download the Chrome plugin and claim yours (note: the download will immediately start after you click on the link).”

- Let The News Find You: Msgboy Reads the Web For You In Real Time [Invites] | TechCrunch

"Search is limited by what we can ask it. In the future, the information revolving around your..."

superfeedr — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:50:05 -0400

“Search is limited by what we can ask it. In the future, the information revolving around your interests finds you.”

- …on limitations of search | Om Malik

"Because when I would spend my time flinging zingers at Matt Mullenweg about the merits of Movable..."

superfeedr — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:37:12 -0400

“Because when I would spend my time flinging zingers at Matt Mullenweg about the merits of Movable Type vs. WordPress, you know who was winning? Mark Fucking Zuckerberg. Facebook won the blogging wars. The web became a more closed place than if either Movable Type or WordPress had evolved into the tool that powered social networking.”

- Readability, Instapaper, the Network and the Price we Pay - Anil Dash

"On RSS Nobody, as far as we can tell, is 100 percent satisfied with their RSS Reader. Patricia..."

superfeedr — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:24:41 -0400

“On RSS Nobody, as far as we can tell, is 100 percent satisfied with their RSS Reader. Patricia Sauthoff was trying to get used to the Google Reader redesign. Zach Seward, epic news junkie, was daunted by the number of articles he’d face. And Jake Dobkin recounted his daily struggle with his RSS feed as if it were a battle he fought daily, part of the long war against the news: “wading into the cesspool” with “pure disgust and horror.””

- News.me Don’t worry, we’re here to help :)

"Since its launch, I’ve been using msgboy more and more. It has somehow taken down my..."

superfeedr — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:17:13 -0400

“Since its launch, I’ve been using msgboy more and more. It has somehow taken down my productivity down a notch. The last product to do so was Facebook, I think, so you’ve got quite the achievement here. Its awesome.”

- Issue #13: Feedback · superfeedr/msgboy

"I’m not going to willfully put my writing in spaces that I have no control over"

superfeedr — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:30:22 -0400

“I’m not going to willfully put my writing in spaces that I have no control over”

- Scripting News: Before I use Branch

News.me: Watching News Break

superfeedr — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:16:21 -0400

News.me: Watching News Break:

newsme:

Here at News.me we’ve been looking at the best ways to get news to our users. One problem that we’ve been thinking about a lot is breaking news. What is breaking news in a world with 24-hour access to information? What kind of information should a breaking news update convey?

Yesterday…

"You can learn more at http://krtconf.com/ and I think it is an amazing opportunity for you to learn..."

superfeedr — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:23:50 -0400

“You can learn more at http://krtconf.com/ and I think it is an amazing opportunity for you to learn more about the realtime web. We also have a discount for you to take off $300 of your ticket price. Please get in touch if you want it!”

- Superfeedr’s tumbling!

"Summify is crushing Xydo, Percolate, and News.me in providing me the best and earliest links… by..."

superfeedr — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:00:03 -0400

“Summify is crushing Xydo, Percolate, and News.me in providing me the best and earliest links… by email #curationwars”

- Twitter / @stoweboyd: Summify is crushing Xydo, …

Sane RSS usage – Marco.org

superfeedr — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:19:00 -0400

Sane RSS usage – Marco.org

"In the context of the msgboy (request your invite now!), we had to setup a new XMPP server. After..."

superfeedr — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:51:04 -0400

“In the context of the msgboy (request your invite now!), we had to setup a new XMPP server. After fighting with ejabberd, we installed Prosody, but we also quickly concluded that we would need a lot of customization, as well as the ability to tweak our server(s) to fit our exact needs.”

- Superfeedr : Node XMPP Server

The Keeping it Realtime Conference

superfeedr — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:12:05 -0400

The Keeping it Realtime Conference:

If you’re even remotely interested in the realtime web, you want to attend this conference. Great lineup, amazing organizing crew. Can’t wait to see everyone there and tell them how we built the msgboy!

Superfeedr : Reporting Chrome Application Errors

superfeedr — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:22:43 -0400

Superfeedr : Reporting Chrome Application Errors:

Getting technical!

Superfeedr : Introducing the Msgboy

superfeedr — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:28:58 -0400

Superfeedr : Introducing the Msgboy:

And, there, I was born!