DISQUS

Mike Butcher · 2 years ago

There's more on this on http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/12/07/favorit-wor...

Mike Butcher · 2 years ago

Oh, and nice to meet you at the London Geek Dinner.

Greg Brewer · 2 years ago

This sounds very interesting. I used to use RSS Bandit until Google Reader was released. Being able to read my feeds on any computer and have it know what I already read was killer, not to mention the "ribbon of news". But it seems Fav.or.It has nailed the things that I wished Google Reader could do. It will be great to have more competition in this space. I signed up as well, cant wait to try it out.

Nicole Simon · 2 years ago

Looks interesting - especially that FINALLY somebody is realizing that minus / not is a relevant feature when slicing and dicing .

For example I would not have the need for a dozen blogs (okay, two) if you could just filter out everything I write in German. Because you would just tag "only include the following languages" in your selection.

Also from the pictures it looks like you can go through the relevant parts of your newsfeed first, but also slice and dice it to get rid of all the crap.

I still like to be able to work in folders for structuring (but that is a nn / river of news versus tin / techmeme display argument); but it pushes the agenda in the right direction.

What I am missing from the screenshots is the possibility to work better with mark read or not, but I assume that lies in the keyboard shortcuts. :)

Ryan Mance · 2 years ago

While the slices seems like an interesting concept, I almost feel that you'd be reducing what you'd see form each feed if you used it too much. If you've filtered out a site based on certain relevant tags, you may very well miss out on information that you thought you had no interest in, but turns out you did: the joy of discovery.

Still, I'll probably give it a shot. I only tried Google Reader a week ago and am pretty hooked, but if someone creates something better, I'd try it out.

ojbyrne · 2 years ago

I think that should be "river of news" rather than "ribbon of news" - or perhaps it's some new UI paradigm that I haven't heard of yet?

Bishma · 2 years ago

I'm very interested to hear your impressions of this. I too am firmly attached to my Google Reader and if this is like Google Reader+ I'm sold. I love GR but there's always room for improvement.

pauroberts · 2 years ago

Whooaaa. Did Mike actually say you can comment from the reader directly to the blogs? That's a pretty cool way to keep the conversation going without visiting a bunch of blogs. Thanks this sounds really cool, and I can't wait until this reaches a wider beta

(Is there anywhere to sign up for a peak?)

Not sure how you'd do that with your incessant video though:-)

Nick Halstead · 2 years ago

Thanks for your kind words Robert, I really loved doing the interview especially with Milan watching in the background :) I look forward to seeing it!

Nicole, we thought about folders for the list of slices, but we will wait until we see long term use patterns, slices really should let you achieve the same thing and with the new advanced editor we have given the tools to customize it to your hearts content.

We automatically mark things as read as you scroll over them (they are marked in grey when you scroll back up), but again will wait for further feedback on if its not obviously enough.

weaverluke · 2 years ago

Hey Robert,

Did you try the new Blog Friends v1 yet? It not only satisfies your points 1 and 3, but also helps you discover new blogs through your extended social/favourites network. And it gets blogger users new readers too—I note from your profile that you have 697 fans on Blog Friends!

http://apps.facebook.com/blogfriends

Corvida · 2 years ago

Looks VERY interesting. Blogging about it and signing up!

Chris Saad · 2 years ago

Great to see readers start to differentiate themselves with new standards - particularly APML.

Well done Nick and team.

Much more APML support to come - stay tuned www.apml.org

adir1 · 2 years ago

There's one problem that I doubt any company can overcome to kick Google of it's King chair -- the speed at which your feeds refresh.

Seriously, I have 443 subscriptions on Google, and there is thousands more. This is what got me off Bloglines also. When it was taking hour or more to recognize new posts and show them to me.

Google, with their thousands of CPU's distributed architecture can really afford pulling all these feeds and process them in timely manner.

So, it's Google reader for me, still.

Gabor Ratky · 2 years ago

Seems like you're looking at APML after all! Let us know what you think of attention profiling and how well does it differentiate fav.or.it from the other readers.

It was great meeting you in London!

Dustin · 2 years ago

Is anyone else getting tired of these beta rollouts? I will probably forget about this when they actually are allowing sign-ups and miss out.

=(

Michael · 2 years ago

"After all, I’m locked into Google Reader thanks to FeedHeads, which is just about to pass 10,000 users on Facebook, and thousands of people who subscribe to my Google Reader Shared Items feed, not to mention that Fast Company takes that and reprints the headlines, too, so switching readers is going to be pretty tough for me at this point"

Lock-in? Google? Can't be, they're the heroes!

dadshouse · 12 months ago

Only problem - fav.or.it is STEALING COPYRIGHT CONTENT and republishing it. My dadshouseblog.com content is copyright by me, all rights reserved. Fav.or.it stole it without my permission, stripped the copyright notice, and is republishing it. They added links to make it look like I am a contributor on their site. I AM NOT.

I have asked them to remove my content immediately. It is not for them to republish. They are illegally benefiting off my hard work, and they are ignoring my copyright notice.

Lynnae · 10 months ago

dadshouse is right on. fav.or.it is STEALING my copyrighted content and making me look like a willing party, too.

Their model is all wrong. If fav.or.it wants to aggregate feeds, they need to ask the owners of the copyrighted material permission before republishing it IN FULL. I wonder how many people are unaware their content is being STOLEN.

I have asked them to remove my content and am still waiting.