Cool tool: Feedlounge
Ive been playing round with Feedlounge for the last few weeks..and I’m desperately impressed. In case you haven’t tried it, it’s an Ajax newsreader (you have to pay), by (partly) Alex King who I had previously stumbled on as the archdeacon of Wordpress templatery.
The look and feel is very nice - and the keyboard shortcuts are intuitive - which give it a real app feel. I know Bloglines fans will probably feel it’s a bit feature light - and might snarl at the fact that you have to pay for it. But it does the job for me - and as for payment: hey, I value their creative efforts.
Anyway, in general, I’m looking at a lot less blogs etc at the moment, but when I do, it’s all there. For some reason, I always find Bloglines goes a bit odd if you leave it for a few weeks.
This might be a dumb question - but shouldn’t someone really launch a browser designed expressly to run web apps like this? Not sure what the interface implications are, but looking at all this stuff in Firefox feels a bit like using a hammer to dig a hole. Can someone please give me a shovel!
Mike Butcher wrote:
How about Browzar? Actually, perhaps not, but your description sounds like a much better business model than the one declared by the company (cyber cafes??). And at only 265KB a download, too. Talk about a thin client. (Hmmn, I think I’m now going to have to add that joke the the post): http://tbites.com/tbites/2006/08/31/freeserve-founder-launches-browser-for-privacy
Posted on 31-Aug-06 at 9:58 pm | Permalink