Comments on: Beyond RSS – Four sites that can tell you what you want to read http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/10/15/beyond-rss-%e2%80%93-four-sites-that-can-tell-you-what-you-want-to-read/ Ramblings and tech news from the Pingdom team Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Emil Schutte http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/10/15/beyond-rss-%e2%80%93-four-sites-that-can-tell-you-what-you-want-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-370278 Emil Schutte Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:13:17 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=4205#comment-370278 Thanks for the mention. Daniel, Readfresh is open. If you have any feedback, email me at readfresh at gmail dot com. It was nice to find this here, since we use Pingdom for server monitoring at my day job and we've been very happy with it. Thanks for the mention. Daniel, Readfresh is open. If you have any feedback, email me at readfresh at gmail dot com.

It was nice to find this here, since we use Pingdom for server monitoring at my day job and we’ve been very happy with it.

]]> By: John Wright http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/10/15/beyond-rss-%e2%80%93-four-sites-that-can-tell-you-what-you-want-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-369944 John Wright Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:26:20 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=4205#comment-369944 Here is the article that started as a comment to this post... Can a computer find interesting news for you? http://blog.thynews.com/2009/10/can-a-computer-find-interesting-news-for-you/ Here is the article that started as a comment to this post…

Can a computer find interesting news for you?
http://blog.thynews.com/2009/10/can-a-computer-find-interesting-news-for-you/

]]> By: Can a computer find interesting news for you? | ThyNews Blog http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/10/15/beyond-rss-%e2%80%93-four-sites-that-can-tell-you-what-you-want-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-369941 Can a computer find interesting news for you? | ThyNews Blog Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:15:17 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=4205#comment-369941 [...] Beyond RSS – Four sites that can tell you what you want to read [...] [...] Beyond RSS – Four sites that can tell you what you want to read [...]

]]> By: John Wright http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/10/15/beyond-rss-%e2%80%93-four-sites-that-can-tell-you-what-you-want-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-369932 John Wright Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:25:11 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=4205#comment-369932 Hey Daniel, this (my) service is completely open to the public and easy to start using. I invite you to try it out, ThyNews http://thynews.com . I started to leave a long comment but decided rather to do a blog post linking to this article. I'll post a link to it soon if trackbacks aren't enabled on Pingdom :) Hey Daniel, this (my) service is completely open to the public and easy to start using. I invite you to try it out, ThyNews http://thynews.com .

I started to leave a long comment but decided rather to do a blog post linking to this article. I’ll post a link to it soon if trackbacks aren’t enabled on Pingdom :)

]]> By: Daniel Howard http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/10/15/beyond-rss-%e2%80%93-four-sites-that-can-tell-you-what-you-want-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-369723 Daniel Howard Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:28:08 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=4205#comment-369723 Pars.ly has a fantastically bad user experience: they'll take your information and put you in a configure screen, then let you keep adding interests and clicking the "I'm Done" button which keeps putting you on the setup screen so you ad more interests, mostly laden with profanity, until you give up because its obviously broken. Then you check your e-mail and it says "oh yeah we're not actually letting you register." So you write them back "thanks for wasting my time" and then just because it was so frustrating you drop back in on Pingdom and kvetch. Just how terrible are the other three services? Are any open to the public? Pars.ly has a fantastically bad user experience: they’ll take your information and put you in a configure screen, then let you keep adding interests and clicking the “I’m Done” button which keeps putting you on the setup screen so you ad more interests, mostly laden with profanity, until you give up because its obviously broken.

Then you check your e-mail and it says “oh yeah we’re not actually letting you register.”

So you write them back “thanks for wasting my time” and then just because it was so frustrating you drop back in on Pingdom and kvetch.

Just how terrible are the other three services? Are any open to the public?

]]> By: Miguel Vera http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/10/15/beyond-rss-%e2%80%93-four-sites-that-can-tell-you-what-you-want-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-369682 Miguel Vera Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:52:19 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=4205#comment-369682 Nice post. You should check out http://www.my6sense.com/ too. Nice post. You should check out http://www.my6sense.com/ too.

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