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News Orgs and RSS Readers
Yesterday, Dave Winer described an AHA moment he had after talking to some folks about Google Reader’s possible impending Syncpocalypse. He asks: “Why isn’t this something a news org jumps on. It’s their business. And for crying out loud — do it with a revenue model. No paywall. Just charge the users for the service.… Continue reading
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What would an RSS Syncpocalypse mean for bloggers?
Just a quick note here: Brent Simmons made some good points yesterday regarding the potential shut-down of Google Reader. If indeed they were to shut it down, a planned, clean ending would definitely be preferred to a gradual decline into disrepair. Better for users, and better for Google. But either way, one part of what… Continue reading
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Could Google spin off Reader?
Like many others, I’ve been having trouble with Google Reader this morning. TechCrunch is reporting widespread issues today: “Google Reader, the RSS feed-reading service Google has long since benignly abandoned, has gone completely mad, and Google has yet to acknowledge the problem even as it heads into its second day of unusability. Users are reporting… Continue reading
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Marco: A long time ago…
Marco wrote today: “Remarkably, the show is still running, and in last night’s episode, ‘The Day The Earth Stood Cool’, The Simpsons made a Tumblr joke. The site that David and I started when I was 24 was referenced in the show I started watching when I was 7.” That’s pretty awesome. I had a… Continue reading
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Mat Honan: “Yes, I was hacked. Hard.”
Mat writes: I went to connect it to my computer and restore from that backup—which I had just happened to do the other day. When I opened my laptop, an iCal message popped up telling me that my Gmail account information was wrong. Then the screen went gray, and asked for a four digit pin.… Continue reading
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Evil Brain Jono: Everybody Hates Firefox Updates
I’m super-late to this but wanted to shoot the link out there since I’ve also written about this before. Over on evilbrainjono.net, acknowledgment that Firefox updates are driving users away from the browser. In particular, I love this paragraph: “I’ve been thinking a lot about the fundamental disconnect between the developers and the users. I… Continue reading
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Still using Chrome over Firefox
Back in August, I switched to Chrome, when a Firefox update broke some of the extensions I was using. I was reluctant to switch at the time, but the breakage was annoying enough that I turned off Firefox (i.e. stopped launching it), and switched to Chrome for my personal browsing when on mine or my… Continue reading
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Hey, Firefox: Thanks for forcing me to switch to Chrome!
Well, thanks to the Firefox 6 update I was just asked (nagged) to install, none of my plug-ins work. So much for not breaking users. At the same time, the Firefox team completely failed to give me any compelling reason to stick with Firefox 6 until plug-in developers get around to fixing their code to… Continue reading