Comments on: Google RSS Reader beta arrives, and so do server errors

By: Google delivering RSS subscriber numbers in header » Make You Go Hmm

Google delivering RSS subscriber numbers in header » Make You Go Hmm — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:42:21 +0000

[…] Google Reader has come a long ways since October 2005. […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Google Reader API available officially in a month, unofficially now

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:43:35 +0000

[…] Intriguing. It’s been awhile since I originally checked out Google Reader (October 7, 2005) so I browsed over there this evening to see how things are coming along. […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Pirillo launches gada.be and explains how it came.to.be

Make You Go Hmm: » Pirillo launches gada.be and explains how it came.to.be — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:27:07 +0000

[…] In fact, gada.be has just been announced and I already saw one new user who commented at TechCrunch already complaining: “Zzzzzz. This thing is maddeningly slow… NEXT!” 4) In reference to #3, Scoble already is apologizing for Chris regarding “servers are getting slammed right now…” gada.be is in great company in this regard because the big guys — Google and Yahoo — have both launched services recently that were slammed the first day, so maybe this is a positive sign, not a negative one. 5) the OPML functionality (just add /opml to end of query) will be useful for power users, initially, and more every day users when/if OPML becomes more mainstream. […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Yahoo Podcasts gives podcasters more free exposure

Make You Go Hmm: » Yahoo Podcasts gives podcasters more free exposure — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:44:22 +0000

[…] My Thoughts - search results were returned very slowwwwly and/or timed out. I had trouble logging in on one test machine (login is not required to use the service). This reminded me of Friday with Google’s new RSS reader. What is up with these big search companies releasing products — even as beta — that have slow search? That’s what they are supposed to be good at doing. There aren’t zillions of podcasts out there so there is no huge index issue, er excuse. Yeah, it’s beta, but come on it’s 3am here … I can’t make excuses for this one. Plug in a few more servers, please! - clicking “Listen” launches a popup to choose to listen in browser using Windows Media, Real or Quicktime in a wide variety of bandwidths (don’t forget to turn off the popup blocker). - clicking “Subscribe” first goes to a screen to explain how subscribing to a podcast works. Very nice, succint walkthrough with small, relevant screencaps. I noticed that my (older) Yahoo Music Engine on my test machine was buggy (kept crashing and restarting Windows) so I went and updated the software. Be sure to choose “custom install” and uncheck the software you don’t want. Guess that’s at least one advantage of releasing new services that interact with each other. […]

By: Jessu

Jessu — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 05:49:42 +0000

It seems to be slow as of now, and generating many errors. I feel that Ajax is being overused, and is causing the errors here.

As of now, I would stick on with FeedFeeds which gives me all the option that I want from an rss reader, like multi level categorising, importing OPML, etc

By: Random Tech Notes

Random Tech Notes — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:27:00 +0000

Web 2.0: Does RSS Decrease Page Views?

These days it seems everyone (including me) is using RSS to syndicate their content. And, like many people, I’m beginning to rely more and more on my RSS reader (Apple’s Safari) to tell me when a site has been updated so I can scan the hea…