Comments on: RSS: Up, down, stagnant, plateau, on the verge–where is feed reading going?

By: Caleb Elston

Caleb Elston — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:00:46 +0000

Glad to hear it! We have been getting so many great suggestions for new features and improvements it is amazing, so keep them coming.

We are actually in the middle of moving to a new datacenter and server infrastructure, so there will be a bit of downtime tonight as we get everything moved.

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:09:05 +0000

Caleb thanks for swinging by. I’m getting into the site now … finding more feeds and trying the features. I’ll give you more feedback as I use it.

By: Caleb Elston

Caleb Elston — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:08:27 +0000

Sorry to be late to the party, we have been working to stabalize our current server, and we just signed a deal with a new hosting provider for a beefy server.

I find that the feeds I was in love with 6 months ago are sometimes the feeds that are last to get read if I don’t have much time to read feeds.

I find I am constantly looking to my friends for suggestions on new feeds to read, the feeds they just discovered and are loving. The biggest challenge is keeping my feed reader organized so I can triage esp. if I don’t have much time or was away from my computer for a few days.

As long as there are new people writing interesting things, I know I will be adding more feeds.

The other interesting thing I am noticing, is that people are realizing that feeds are not just blogs, but can be photos, podcasts, video, forum threads, and meta aggregations. As feeds continue to gain adoption the feed reader will need to evolve, and there are plenty of companies doing some amazing things around improving the feed reading experience.

Caleb
Founder Toluu

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:05:54 +0000

Guys, why don’t you write about Mindity?
http://www.mindity.com/WhatIs.aspx
That’s the same service as Toluu, launched 3 months ago. It’s the combination of a desktop client and a web service. Give it a try!

By: Bill Flitter

Bill Flitter — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:05:29 +0000

Feed reading is alive and well. Subscriber counts for the feeds we monitor on behalf our clients grew 250% in 2007. What we are seeing is the consumption points changing. We are seeing more and more feeds consumed via Widgets and start pages like Netvibes and PageFlakes.

Bill Flitter
Pheedo, Inc.

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:06:46 +0000

Louis … I think you’re onto something. There is going to have to be something that can help the info overload…

By: Louis Gray

Louis Gray — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:57:37 +0000

RSS Feeds are great because they are so flexible. They look good in Safari. They look good on iPhones, integrated with Outlook… they look good in Google Reader, get imported to FriendFeed, Shyftr, AssetBar, Toluu, Feedheads/Facebook… They are the best way to consume data without going from site to site. There’s MUCH more to come. I’m looking at even more sites this weekend that have some very interesting ways to help take down the information, find out what’s relevant and keep going. This space is far from done when it comes to innovation, and Toluu, even though it’s just one guy working hard on an underpowered server, so far, is a great example of this. Just watch how the conversation morphs, from feed readers to Twitter, FriendFeed and beyond. It’s going to be a lot of fun.