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Jul 17, 13
Homepage of Firereader, a proof of concept of how to create an RSS feed reader using Firebase and AngularJS.
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Jul 17, 13
Announcement of Firereader, open-source, client-only RSS feed reader, created using the Firebase cloud service in combination with AngularFire. AngularFire is a real-time adapter to the Angular framework.
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Jul 16, 13
Detailed review of the desktop, magazine-style RSS reader for Mac OS/X computers. The reader lacks a list view and fails to import a Google Reader XML export file.
"The latest version of Mixtab Pro was released just in time to be touted as an alternative to Google Reader. Unfortunately, we couldn't get the RSS viewer to digest our Reader feeds, which we had exported to a Zip archive. The important one is subscriptions.xml, the equivalent of an OPML file. Mixtab choked on the XML file. It wouldn't import it, generated a lengthy error message, and crashed." -
Jul 16, 13
In-depth comparison of three Windows Phone 8 feed readers: NextGen Reader, Collector and Weave.
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Jul 15, 13
"MnmlRdr definitely stays true to its name. The presentation of black text and column separators on a flat, white background provides excellent clarity. Reader outcasts will also feel truly at home in MnmlRdr’s two-column layout. Feeds and folders are lined up vertically on the left, while the contents of feeds are listed, as headlines, on the right."
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Jul 14, 13
"Now would be a great time to get a group of people from tech and news together for a discussion about RSS.
2. What would be discussed?
The history of RSS, how open formats work in the market, ideas for cooperation, both betw tech entities and tech and the media." -
Jul 11, 13
". . . but if this has taught you anything, you should now know to be ready with a backup option in case Feedly ever stops working again. You should do that will ALL apps you find yourself exclusively dependent on, but we'll write posts on those topics at a later date."
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Jun 28, 13
In-depth review of paid rss feed reader Feed Wrangler by David Smith, which stands out because of its smart search feed folders.
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Jun 28, 13
With the service from readerisdead.com that Mihai is announcing here, you can export all of your Google Reader data: "every read item, every tagged item, every coment, every like, every bundle"
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Jun 28, 13
AllYourFeed Google Reader Archiving Team needs your help - upload your Google TakeOut or OPML file.
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Jun 28, 13
To be used with Feed Wrangler by David Smith
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Jun 28, 13
Two-part post, one particularly dealing with Marco's statement about NetNewsWire being dead, the other about the closed silos that feed readers are becoming once again if they solely accumulate feeds using proprietary methods, and do not allow users to also synchronize with other collections.
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Jun 29, 13
Feed junkie's list of essential features in a feed reader: speed, river of news view, cross-platform synchronization, 3rd-party integration, folders, and search [!]. Stewart concludes that for him Feedly is his optimal choice.
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Jun 29, 13
Third of a multi-part series of indepth feed reader reviews. Richly illustrated and very clear argumentation what works for the author in a feed reader and what doesn't. Previous installments in the review series deal with NewsBlur and Feedbin.
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Jun 29, 13
Yahoo! is terminating their RSS Alerts together with 11 other services. Email alerts do remain in operation.
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Jun 30, 13
New type of newsreader that filters feeds for specific keywords using their article search engine. You can use the @Feedstripes 50.000+ feed set, or sign up for an account and import your own.
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Jun 30, 13
Tristan Louis explains how Google Reader becoming the centralized feed synchronization hub debilitated the development of RSS technology.
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Jun 30, 13
Another step by step guide to Reader is Dead, Mihai Parparita @Mihai's method to export all of your Google Reader data. To run the export tool, you first need to download the Python scripts Mihai wrote. Alex' post contains the instructions for this.
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Jul 01, 13
Launch of Matt Jibson's Go Read open-source feed reader, cloned after Google Reader
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Jul 02, 13
Stephen discusses his gripes with the various Google Reader alternatives.
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