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Because Duncan was awesome enough to provide a REST API for the Xbox 360, I was able to create some pipes for converting that information to an RSS feed. You can use it with lifestreaming apps like Friend Feed until they get access to the developer program and are able to officially support the Xbox 360. #
Yahoo pipes FTW! My Xbox Live status is also now on my lifestream page and I have updated my Full Fat Feed and Semi-Skimmed Feed in accordance which both reside on Yahoo Pipes.
Mobile web browsers have come a long way since we first introduced an XHTML version of Reader back in 2006. For example, iPhone and iPod Touch owners know how powerful having a full-featured browser is. We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari users. Sometimes we use it to kill time, other times for answering important questions that come up during brunch: What is Tyrol's first name? How is maple butter made? How do you sweeten rhubarb for sangria? What is John Gruber saying now? For questions like the last one, we of course use Reader to keep up with our subscriptions. #
I can confirm that the new iPhone Google reader interface is indeed rather awesome.
There's no need to use Yahoo Pipes to access authenticated feeds # for Daring Fireball as John Gruber has now made all feeds publicly accessible. Though if you're a DF member then you may still want to try Yahoo Pipes as the DF public feeds have ads.
For now, the members-only feeds continue to work, unchanged. As stated above, however, this experiment with an open-to-all full-content feed is as much for the benefit of members as it is for non-members. By far, the single most common request for the member feeds is to find a way to make them work with Google Reader. This is it. #
Yes, sort it Google, where's our authenticated feeds? You should be ashamed that Yahoo have come in and plugged this gap.
Goodbye FeedLounge - NetNewsWire and Newsgator have won me over, maybe Ill see you again sometime soon.
Theres a great podcast on TalkCrunch with a discussion between executives on 4 major online feed readers: NewsGator, Attensa, Rojo and Feedlounge. I had a look at a few online feed readers a while ago and I settled on Feedlounge as a good migration from NetNewsWire. In my eyes Feedlounge certainly gives the best user experience: the liberal use of AJAX means no page refresh; none of the other readers seem to do the 3 pane thing or render the pages as well as Feedlounge (Alex mentions that he came from NetNewsWire and I think it shows), its just unfortunate that you have to pay for this usability and that it doesnt yet sync with NetNewsWire, Id really like to see the usability of Feedlounge with the functionality of the NewsGator and NetNewsWire combo (free would be nice too, certainly cheaper). All 4 discuss the future of their respective readers and the future certainly looks rosy, I for one shall be keeping an eye on these an any more which might turn up.
I have spent the last couple of days playing with a few web based news readers/aggregators. My reason for this? Well, I use NetNewsWire and am very happy with it, but Id like to be able to read my subscriptions anywhere and not have to deal with re-reading stories. To that end, what follows are my potted reviews and experiences with some of the options I found, in no particular order. All feeds were imported from an OPML file created by exporting my feeds from NetNewsWire with groups entact.
