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Digg Hints Its Replacement For Google Reader Will Include Social Media Content
RougeFemme writes "To capitalize on Google Reader's shutdown, Digg is building an RSS reader from scratch. But this Reader replacement will go beyond RSS to include social media content, like Facebook, Tumblr, Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc. From their blog post: 'Google did a lot of things right with its Reader, but based on what we’re hearing from users, there is room for meaningful improvement. We want to build a product that’s clean and flexible, that bends easily and intuitively to the needs of different users. We want to experiment with and add value to the sources of information that are increasingly important, but difficult to surface and organize in most reader applications — like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, LinkedIn, or Hacker News. We likely won’t get everything we want into v1, but we believe it’s worth exploring."
A dead community that acts as nothing more than a news scraper with a paid bias? Do they have any staff left?
Who uses that anymore? Irrelevant stories are posted HERE now.
Suck my balls, roblimo, timmyboy, and kdawson. You know WHAT you are.
Strangely, I had both Twitter and FaceBook feeds in my Google Reader at one point or another. Many of these 'social media' sites are capable of providing an RSS feed. Personally I think that's the right way to do it. To hand code interfaces for each specific service seems silly when you can actually use a standard protocol.
....to include social media content, like Facebook, Tumblr, Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc.
That's improvement? Oh God! Idiocracy here we come at warp speed!
Don't you mean Dead?
Wasn't Digg that site I used to visit as often as ./ before they whored themselves to advertisers to allow funded content to overtly make it to the front page instead of ACTUAL user submitted content?
BTW: yes - I'm aware lots of users were themselves industry shills, but at least it had the pretense of being a community-driven website.
Wow, that's great. A piece of software that doesn't exist will do everything your current software does just as well, and will also do more!
Skepticism mode engaged.
The last time digg did one of its boneheaded overhauls (back in August 2012?) it became a pinterest lookalike that IIRC required (not merely allowed, as bad as that already is) a facebook account just to log in. I quickly did the export old account data thinger they supplied that time; I've yet to make any use of that data, but at least I still have it cooped(sp?) up somewhere.
Anyway, the real story here is that anyone would still care about, much less report on, digg. It's long dead and longer buried by its own hand. Lay a Rose (nyuk nyuk, get it? Because Kevin) on the grave if you like; it ain't moving but by the mightiest of necromancy.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Why is on slashdot homepage?
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=digg
Word. Soon, if they play their cards right, they are going to have *all* the obsolete. I heard they were planning on teaming up with CompuServe to corner the Gopher market.
Hey, they should team up with myspace, it's so cute when zombies work together to make something that nobody cares about!
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One less Reader replacement I need to consider. Of course, having the Digg name attached to it was already a major demotivator for checking it out, but this seals it for me.
You can put a UI like pinterest on it and win the Web 3.0 trifecta!
Geez, people... Get a clue. We have tabbed browsers now. We don't actually need everything munged together into a single dashboard. An RSS reader should be that - anRSS reader!
In fact, if you have a large number of contexts (which all of these sites are), shoving them all together into one big ball of mud does not make things more convenient, only more confusing.
That is all.
Kuro5hin is announcing a cloud storage service.
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Why? Irrelevant stores have always been posted here. They were here before digg was born and they were here after digg died.
This is why I am writing my own simple reader. Just check the feed to see if there are new posts and link me to them. It's all I want.
And its okay. Only thing I miss was the preview of top 5 or so /. comments.
A simple reader and if i could ask for a pony, some keyboard controls too.
Did Google just unleashed a RSS bubble?
You mean, like buggy-whip stores? Funny, I generally see ads for rack mounted server gear. Maybe you should delete your cookies.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Not Digg. No, just, no! There's so many things wrong with this.
Here comes Digg thinking Google Reader was just an RSS reader and now wants to join in on the replacement game. Great, so now we'll have a Bazillion and TWO RSS readers!
Google Reader was more than just an RSS client (which there have always been more than enough of). Google Reader was a feed manager and aggregator, with the ability to share posts from feeds and generate new feeds based on the combination of shared items along with a public API for all of it.
The loss of this functionality is pretty significant, especially since Google crushed and eliminated all competition in this field. This is what is needed.
One really important criteria for anyone attempting to fill in here, is that they have to be trust worthy long term. Many sites/companies invested a lot in Google Reader's infrastructure and are now feeling some serious pain as Google has abandoned it. The last thing we want to do is trust someone with a history of foolish abandonment.
So, Digg...
1) You apparently don't even understand what Google Reader is.
2) You have a horrible history of abandonment.
Personally, I started using gReader Pro on my Android device approximately 15 seconds before Google made the announcement to get rid of Google Reader.
Fortunately, gReader had already made itself separate from Google Reader (or so it seems). It supports syncing what you do and what you've read with your Google Reader account, but this is optional. I've already disabled the Google Reader-related features and so far gReader is still working just fine. It has a lot of extra bells and whistles that I don't need, but the basic RSS reading functionality is very nice and is the main reason I switched to it (and paid for it). Best of all, no social media junk.
I'm still not sure if there is more going on underneath than I know about. Maybe it is more closely linked to Google Reader than I am aware? I guess I'll find out when Google Reader finally turns off.
My only complaint right now, and it is a very minor one, concerns the display of Slashdot comments at the bottom of each Slashdot RSS feed article. gReader still displays only five comments (picked seemingly at random, yet somehow never including troll/spam junk) and I can tap on the titles to expand the comment, just as in a browser. However, until recently I was still using the stock Android 2.3.4 on my Droid 3 and now I am using CyanogenMod 10.1 with Android 4.2.2. The comment box that gReader shows no longer seems to grow vertically as I open each of the five comments. A rather bizarre change, but not exactly a deal breaker...
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Just implement the Google Reader API.
Then, have all apps supporting Google Reader add a field to enter a server.
Then, have several companies offer this service, for free or for money, with or without a web interface.
Then you get a free market for RSS synchronisation on the free Internet, a level playing field for free players.
OK, these days suggesting something like that probably already makes you a communist.
Don't we already have this to a limited extent with the Feedly addon for every browser that actually matters?
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> This is why I am writing my own simple reader.
Aah... you too? :-)
And if anyone has their own host and wants something full-featured right now, look no further than Tiny Tiny RSS which, despite the name, is not all that tiny. If you use PHP and want to start rolling your own, I recommend starting with MagpieRSS.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
If they let you turn off all the crap you don't want and just use it for a handful of feeds, and if the UI is good, this could be awesome. Digg (despite its troubles in the past) does have a lot of talent and infrastructure. (Remember when they were good? All the cool things they had in labs.digg.com? (or whatever the URL was.))
Google has actually created a huge opportunity here for a lot of companies, and there are plenty of people who could do great work to fill the vacuum that Google is creating. Despite my initial "awwww!" at losing Reader, it will be very interesting to see what gets built in the next six months.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
This is what I loved about Google Reader that nothing else I've looked at seems to have. With Google, you add a shortcut to your browser to http://www.google.com/reader/next?go=nextauto... Every time you click on it it takes you to the next new page in one of your subscribed feeds. If there are no more unread pages, it takes you to some end-of-the-internet page. That's all it does, and that's all I want it to do. i don't want extra crap, I don't want to be forced to install a plug in, and I certainly don't want even more facebook , et. al, icons. Just provide me with a quick and simple way to view all the sites I've subscribed to.
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Yea, TT-RSS even supports importing the xml file from Google Reader to automatically add all feeds.
Though I miss the trends/statistics page of Reader (on the other hand, now I can monitor the server).
digg desperate trying to make the news..a couple days ago they sent out an email saying
"hey..do you remember us? it's so dark and lonely here.. please come back and pay attention to us. sure we ignored every wish the users had and just completely fucked things sideways..but..please? please? please???"
I don't trust Digg anymore with anything.
I've been using 24Update.com ever since Google Reader announced their date of death.. It is not as sofisticated as Google Reader but feeds my news addiction pretty well..
What's "Digg"?
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