Comments on: Gritwire - Cool Flash Reader, Stupid Launch Party

By: macewan

macewan — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:35:40 +0000

requires flash 8 - that leaves out users of Linux until macromedia provides flash 8 for Linux

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:39:33 +0000

I don’t know what it is, but I am not that impressed. It seems clunky and not too innovative. This is coming from someone that is pretty in-tune with computing/internet/etc… but not blinded by the web2.0 phenomenon (where everything 2.0 is cool). I truly like the a lot of the stuff out there, but this isn’t THAT great (coming from a plain users perspective). The UI is a bit boring, and feed searching bring up a lot of garbage. Nice effort though… I am sure it will get better over time.
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By: chickerino

chickerino — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:24:01 +0000

why use flash for something like this? it’s completely ridiculous… surely. it must have been so hard to code compared to if they had just used basic HTML (and perhaps even AJAX to achieve the same functionality). Baffled! I really don’t see the point in flash for functional applications these days. for nice animation perhaps but I don’t see how it can be taken seriously for stuff like this.

and regarding gritwire. surely netvibes is sooooooooo much better. what is gritwire going to do that would make me use it rather than netvibes? btw the point about most of the users just having visited once, signed up (which is mandatory) and then left is very critical. all of the users i searched for (without exception) didn’t have a single favourite feed. this is quite a good indication of what people think of this site. sorry

does anyone know if they got funding for this project?

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:55:15 +0000

“(I want something like this wiki on my desktop for easy group working)”

Try MoonEdit (old but effective) - we use it at work.

By: CrunchNotes » Ok, maybe there is a bubble?

CrunchNotes » Ok, maybe there is a bubble? — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:53:27 +0000

[...] Last night a company called gritwire threw an open bar launch party at Syndicate. Another startup had an open bar party in the city tonight. From what I hear the parties were full of very happy people who couldn’t have cared less about the product but were enthralled with the free booze. [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:05:45 +0000

The images aren’t getting stripped from my reader…they just take a few seconds to load on occasion.

By: Reinier

Reinier — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:16:41 +0000

Although it has some nice ideas, I am wondering what the goals are with this thing. On my Mac it is slow and it cannot compete with the offline RSS readers at all. I wish them all the luck, but there need to be vast improvements ahead to win me over.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:54:19 +0000

Actually, I’m with you Mike — I think Gritwire is not bad, although I wish it didn’t strip out the images. I think the interface could use some work, but all in all I thought it was pretty good — although I’m not sure Flash is the way to go for an RSS reader.

By: Vinay P.

Vinay P. — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:12:15 +0000

If you’re trying to access the site from Linux, you’re out of luck. It requires Flash Player 8 which isn’t available on that platform. That’s too bad, since I really wanted to see their UI.

By: Vida Vacia 4.1

Vida Vacia 4.1 — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:38:40 +0000

Gritware, otro lector de feed muy Web 2.0

Para los que gustan explorar nuevos lectores de feeds, ya estÃ¡ disponible Gritware, un interesante cliente que replica en la Web una interfaz similar a la de Feeddemon. La interfaz es muuuuuyyyy Web 2.0, aunque hecha en Flash (ya se escuchan silbidos…

By: meneame.net

meneame.net — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:35:00 +0000

Gritware, lector de feeds muy Web 2.0

Desde hace pocos dÃas estÃ¡ en funcionamiento Gritware, un lector de feeds que replica en la Web la interfaz que ya conocemos en aplicaciones como Feeddemon o Feedreader. AdemÃ¡s, agrega algunas funcionalidades “sociales”, como un wiki grupal, la po…

By: Johan van Rooyen

Johan van Rooyen — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:25:19 +0000

If parties are out, what about Herman Miller Aerons? My back’s killing me!

By: George T.

George T. — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:46:00 +0000

Michael, in my previous comment I mistakenly sounded like it was the bugs that â€œbuggedâ€ me about this reader. But no, the real problem for me is functionality. Stripping html is not a bug. Itâ€™s a feature (a BAD one in most cases). Lack of unicode supportâ€¦ Probably itâ€™s a bug, but right now makes the reader unsuitable for a lot of people. Itâ€™s only a fancy User Interface. Good enough to make us (programmers, web and tech freaks) visit the site once, register to see the UIâ€¦ then logout â€¦foreverâ€¦ and go back to read our rss feeds in bloglines, google reader, etc.

By: Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:12:04 +0000

I attended the party and it truly was in a cellar but I give the guys from my home state of Illinois a little credit for showing up and giving some folks at the conference a good time on the house. I got a demo of the product and hope to see more from them soon.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:07:19 +0000

George - Give the product some time. After the founders work off their hangovers tomorrow I’m sure they’ll continue to improve the product. And I do like the product, by the way.

By: George T.

George T. — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:05:48 +0000

Totally sucks! I’m impressed why you profiled this… It’s BUGGY, it’s lacking features, it not working!

I wonder how one can really use this to read rss feeds!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:59:56 +0000

“Very Web 1.0.”

Are you kidding me?