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By: Branded RSS readers or IE 7? » mathewingram.com/work

Branded RSS readers or IE 7? » mathewingram.com/work — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:08:30 +0000

[...] While the NewsGator reader seems like a smart move for Newsweek, it’s not clear to me that a branded reader is the way for most people to go. For one thing, as Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 points out, the version being offered by Newsweek isn’t all that easy for “newbies” to wrap their heads around. Sure, you can read Newsweek feeds, but it doesn’t make it easy to find or add new ones (The Guardian’s app comes with a directory that includes a lot of popular newspaper and media feeds). I know Steve Rubel likes the idea of branded newreaders, but to me that makes it seem even more like a naked attempt by Newsweek to piggyback on the buzz around RSS and get people to read its feeds, without really helping them get any further ahead in terms of understanding how to get anything else. [...]

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Branded RSS readers or IE 7? » mathewingram.com/work — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:42:54 +0000

[...] While the NewsGator reader seems like a smart move for Newsweek, it’s not clear to me that a branded reader is the way for most people to go. For one thing, as Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 points out, the version being offered by Newsweek isn’t all that easy for “newbies” to wrap their heads around. Sure, you can read Newsweek feeds, but it doesn’t make it easy to find or add new ones (The Guardian’s app comes with a directory that includes a lot of popular newspaper and media feeds). That makes it seem even more like a naked attempt by Newsweek to piggyback on the buzz around RSS and get people to read its feeds, without really helping them get any further ahead in terms of understanding how to get anything else. [...]

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IP Democracy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In other words, Scott clearly has a foot in both publishing camps Ã¢â‚¬â€ one which is racing ahead of its readers with all kinds of Ajaxian gizmos and the other which is baffled by this whole Web 2.0 business. Today Scottchides one of the vanguards of the dead-tree world, Newsweek magazine, which is making a belated attempt to offer customized RSS feeds. Aside from the fact that NewsweekÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s customized RSS reader doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t seem to work very well, Scott takes on the language

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Susan Mernit's Blog — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

So Newsgator’s powered anew custom My RSS newsreader for Newsweek. Big whoop. A year ago, I was running around New York, convinced customized newsreaders were a smart move for publishers and everyone should have them. Now, a year later, I find the Newsweek reader a yawn–a yet

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