Dion Almaer

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    • Wed Oct 19th 16:09 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bloglines Losing Early Adopters to Rojo, Newsgator, and Google? (IACI, GOOG)
      I would be amazed if people are moving to Google Reader as more than a "lets check it out" move. It is pretty unusable for daily RSS reading in my opinion.

      That being said, I agree that Bloglines is behind these days, and needs to innovate on the UI side.

      I find it hard to justfiy using it as my main news reader, and it sits there as a backup for when I am online away from my computer. I use NewsGator and NetNewsWire as my main tools of choice.

      NewsGator has gotten worse since they added the online services. When you change a folder in Outlook it hangs for awhile, which makes outlook unusable. This is particularly bad usability, as you assume a rename of a folder is a quick, local operation, and then you see the app hang? Can't the web service request by made in the background? Haven't we learnt about asynch UI threads by now?

      Sounds like is still room in this market for innovation, and even a new player? ;)
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    • Wed Oct 19th 16:03 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Hollywood Media's Hollywood.com Relaunches with Podcasts, Blogs and Google Ads (HOLL, GOOG)
      I know iTunes is the big player, but I really don't like how the "POD" button assumes iTunes. What if I want to subscribe in Odeo? Or if I just want the RSS feed to put into iPodder? or.....

      This also reminds me that iTunes bugs me in other ways. This link should at least go to a web page that shows me my feeds, instead of forcing iTunes to open up etc. This is iTunes fault, not the site. The hybrid iTunes is great in many ways, but sometimes i just want to view the web page in my browser, not in a browser with an iTunes wrapper!

      I could also vent about other iTunes things I don't like, such as navigation from podcast to podcast and it losing your context. There is a lot of work to be done there. Apple keeps up'ing the version (iTunes 5, iTunes 6) but give me a break, its just a little hack here and there :)
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    • Wed Oct 5th 03:15 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Early Reaction to Google-Sun Announcement (GOOG)
      This was a painful announcement.

      Coupling the Java runtime with the Google toolbar makes no sense at all. There is no value add for the user.

      Also, it is interesting that although Eric said they would be open to it, the Google Toolbar will not download the JRE, so this is one way traffic.

      After all of the Google Office hype, this is a real downer for people.

      Does an Ajax based Office even make sense? Not in its present form.

      There are weaknesses in a web based office (remember Corel trying to do this way back?), but now with Web 2.0 they could embrace the advantages of the mashups.
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