Feedly Progress Report: Not So Good
I’ve been using Feedly since the demise of Google Reader and wanted to give a progress report on how that’s going. Not that you won’t have already had to make a decision on an alternate, but perhaps this will be helpful for Feedly if not everyone else. First the good news: Feedly is great as […]
Don’t Bury the Map With the Treasure: Thin Clients Trump Apps in Walled Gardens
One of the questions every SaaS company will have to be able to answer for their customers is, “What happens if you go under?” It’s actually a fascinating question, and one you have a chance as a vendor to think about and turn to your advantage. For example, one of my SaaS ventures was Helpstream. […]
Google, If You Think I’ll Move From Reader to Another Google Product, Drop Dead
Just got the news that Google Reader will be turned off July 1. Realistically, I should’ve moved after the first time they brain-damaged it and I railed about it, but I stupidly stuck to it. Now I’m sorry. I’m not the only one, Om Malik says it is his second most used Google application after Gmail. […]
Roadmaps… How Much is Too Much?
One of my favorite services, Feedly, published on their blog the roadmap for their next major release. Obviously this is not a new practice and through various mechanism companies make available for comment their product development process. In recent years the evolution of “ideation” applications has provided companies of all types a powerful capability for […]
Does Paper.li Break Twitter?
I love Paper.li, it’s one of the most innovative and useful services I have seen in a long time. I actually look forward to people I follow coming out with their “The xyz Daily is Out” tweets because they are great information discovery tools. In addition to Techmeme and Feedly various Paper.li editions have become […]
Consumer RSS: 1999-2010
paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter. Indeed, in its announcement, Bloglines similarly blames broader trends for its demise, saying, “As Steve Gillmor pointed out inTechCrunch last year, being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter […]
