Posts Tagged with ‘google-reader’

Honestly, I did not want to write about Google Reader team proudly reporting on making the world wide web truly worldwide by offering the functionality to translate any feed you read into your native language (on condition that your native language is among those supported by Google’s machine translation system). Really, I thought I have said enough about poor quality of machine translation overall and Google translation in particular as well as about the dubious practice of using volunteers for [...]

Today there’s a story on ReadWriteWeb about a new look and feel of the Bloglines beta site introduced by the company along with finally making its web-based feed reader ad-supported. True, may of us have already decided that Bloglines has no chances to survive in the competition with Google Reader, the most prominent feed reader as we tend to believe.
To tell you the truth, it was rather a surprise to me to find out that according to Hitwise Bloglines still [...]

Today Chris Brogan shares a story of his colleague at CrossTech Media Nick Saber losing access to his Google account completely. The only thing he could access was the search page itself while everything that required a user to be logged in was not accessible: his account credentials did not work and the only thing he got was "Sorry, your account has been disabled."
This tweet from Nick himself shows that he was deprived of all the Google services [...]

So Google is in negotiations with Digg to buy the social voting site for “around $200 million”. Now what? Of course, a valid question here would be why Google is still acquiring companies offering all kinds of services when it could have been much simpler to build a similar service of their own in a matter of weeks (and there are tons of scripts allowing to launch a Digg clone available already so this is hardly any problem at [...]

Web 2.0 has developed its own ecosystem, with application builders able to build their apps using mash-ups, AIR clients, and new apps on the backs of popular 2.0 apps already in wide distribution. Virtually every day we see announcements of new applications based on Twitter and FriendFeed and Google Reader, as well as Facebook apps, MySpace apps, and Hi5 apps. The real question, however, is what will happen to these companies and this ecosystem if one of the foundation companies [...]

Poor Louis. He may end up sorry that he ever raised his FriendFeed pompoms toward me. I've spent the past two days crawling all over FriendFeed to give it the chance that I never did. I added it to Twhirl so I could follow the updates during the day.
The truth is that I now detest it even more than I did before, but it's for different reasons.
My initial impression (and complaint) back when I first reviewed FriendFeed was that it [...]

All hail Twitter Local which clued me in that RSSmeme creator Ben Golub actually lives in my own backyard. I planned on waiting until the next Open Coffee Club to grill him, but in honor of RSS Day, I bumped up my plan of attack and he agreed to an interview in honor of the day.
Cyndy: So what prompted you to come up with RSSmeme?
Ben: It's really all thanks to Louis Gray, who hyped Readburner, which is a great [...]

I tend to keep my eye on about a dozen or so feeds (gathered by Google Reader, if you’re curious to know) every day in order to scrounge up enough fodder for my posts here at Profy. (Si, soy un moocher.) Some of course receive more attention than others.
Case in point: I passed over my subscription to CNET’s Tech News Blog for the first couple of days of the week, and in so doing, missed quite a delectable piece [...]

Slashdot featured a little story over the Christmas holiday about my favorite on-again, off-again love affairs: Google. I was going to comment on it yesterday but thought maybe the stress of the holiday season might be getting to me, and since I'd just raked Wikimedia over the coals, I thought I'd bask in my Christmas cheer and give Mountain View the day off. Maybe they too would eat a cookie, have a glass of wine, and emerge refreshed, ready [...]