Feedcrier
Just when Fred Wilson announces that he's converted to using NetNewsWire for RSS feeds, I am going to try to move out of that tool.
Once again, the RSS reader experience -- even one as well-designed as NetNewsWire -- has started to annoy me.
Just at the moment that I was wondering which way to jump, I heard about Feedcrier, an instant messaging RSS solution. Basically, Feedcrier pulls RSS feeds that you subscribe to into your IM client: at the moment only AIM is supported. So now I am getting a river of posts in an IM window.
It will take me a while to see how this works out. At the moment Feedcrier has a vey minimal 'bot interface. You simply register 'feedcrier' as a buddy, and go through a registration process -- which in my case entailed signing up for the Pro account for $4/mo because 3 free feeds wouldn't even have let me fiddle with the tool. The only commands supported are 'subscribe
Immediate improvements wanted:
- Assigning a name to the feed: Steve Rubel or Micropersuasion instead of http://feeds.feedburner.com/MicroPersuasion in the 'list' display.
- I'd like to be able to request the current stuff in a particular feed, like "show micropersuasion".
- Turn off the verification step when subscribing to a feed. Who needs that?
Of course, the real solution for this is the Nerdvana client, where Steve Rubel's RSS feed would be associated with Steve Rubel in my buddylist, not with the feedcrier 'bot. Maybe someone will get around to it someday.
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