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Re: louisgray.com: ReadBurner Shuts Site Down for Good

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:33:00 -0000

Wow, I don't know what happened because I used to show that data...it's back now, you can view a users RSS feed and see their shared page.

See mine: http://www.rssmeme.com/user...

Sorry for that, next time if you email me it'll get fixed faster :)

Re: louisgray.com: ReadBurner Shuts Site Down for Good

louisgray — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:02:00 -0000

@jb, it's hard to figure how some free sites can make money. But if you charged for them, we all know very few would come. That's why many who have the luxury of going free worry about traffic first and revenue later.

@webomatica... shame on you! It was out for two months and I only wrote about it 50 times. ;-)

And Benjamin, anonymous is right about RSS. Talk to Alexander about how to set it up, please.

Re: louisgray.com: ReadBurner Shuts Site Down for Good

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:33:00 -0000

Well..its sad to see ReadBurner close.

Anyway...let me recommend Alertle for all your feed reading needs (I'm one of the geeks behind it!). You can browse through 100s of feeds and a lot of articles within a few seconds on it. Its got 3 things going for it:
- Unique 3-panel interface
- Intuitive keyboard shortcuts (up/down arrows..instead of 'j','k'!)
- Autoplay - you can choose a speed to play your headlines, from 2 seconds onwards.

Check it out at http://www.alertle.com.

For a comparison with Google Reader, see http://blog.alertle.com/?p=10

Re: louisgray.com: ReadBurner Shuts Site Down for Good

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:20:00 -0000

Is RSSMeme hoarding our data? I don't see any way to get the source RSS feed for a user (i.e. for a shared feed publisher). I want to subscribe to some of the shared feeds I find on RSSMeme in Google Reader, but Ben Golub won't give me the original feed urls, unlike Readburner. Ironic since he snatched them up from Readburner and from our own shared feeds.

Hey Ben, if you're going to appropriate our data, could you give a little back?

Re: louisgray.com: ReadBurner Shuts Site Down for Good

Jason R. Hunter — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:53:00 -0000

Nooooooooooo!!! :-(

Re: louisgray.com: ReadBurner Shuts Site Down for Good

Benjamin Golub — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:44:00 -0000

It is sad but these things happen. Hopefully RSSmeme can fill ReadBurner's (large) shoes.

Re: louisgray.com: ReadBurner Shuts Site Down for Good

Webomatica — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:42:00 -0000

Wow, that was fast. I didn't even get a chance to check it out!

Re: louisgray.com: ReadBurner Shuts Site Down for Good

jb — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:14:00 -0000

This is the sad result of the commodification of web ideas. I know that only the strong survive, but how do you compete with an infinite number of clones, resources, or the inevitable "march towards free" that novel / niche services face?