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December 29, 2005

Dave Winer’s Newest Adventure

Michael Arrington

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Dave Winer announced today that he’s built a new RSS aggregator, built on his OPML editor platform. He’s released it to the OPML community for early testing.

Some details are here. The aggregator will have advanced podcasting/videocasting support and will also include a “reading lists” feature. The idea around reading lists is to allow people to subscribe to other people’s list of recommended feeds (in OPML format), and have those lists update as feeds are added or removed. Seems simple, but no one does it now.

The aggregator will be in the “river of news” format, as opposed to folder based like Bloglines. The reason? Dave likes it that way. I’ve argued with him over this issue but he assures me that he’s right. :-) Looks like Robert Scoble may agree. This is a matter of personal choice, of course.

I’m looking forward to testing this out and doing a full review.

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  1. Luca Conti

    December 30th, 2005 at 9:10 am

    It is out of the box:

    http://luca.wordpress.com/2005.....ave-winer/

  2. rusty

    December 30th, 2005 at 1:04 pm

    Personally, I enjoy the approach that Rojo takes, which is to present the RoN view by default but allow you to view and organize “folders” of feeds (a la Bloglines) by using tags for feeds. Clicking on a tag will bring up a RoN view of all the feeds with that tag. Of course, you can still view individual feeds, too. With Rojoo, you can use whatever approach you like best.

    I hope Dave’s reader will support tagging feeds, because since I’ve started using Rojo, I wonder how I ever lived with the way Bloglines did it :-)

    rusty

  3. Ramana Kovi

    December 30th, 2005 at 1:21 pm

    Dave’s approach is the better way of maintaining feed lists in your RSS reader. e.g. If I want to subscribe all abcnews.com feeds, with the current approach I have to add one feed at a time. With Dave’s approach all you have to do is add the OPML URL of abcnews.com to your feed list.

  4. Gaiko

    January 1st, 2006 at 12:36 pm

    Well, being a fan of simplicity (most of the time) and a die hard fan of Kinja.com (so far) i am for the RoN format.

  5. Tim A

    January 1st, 2006 at 12:40 pm

    Thats the problem with Dave, its either his way or no way. Because of the fact that his new aggregator uses the “river of news” method to display I’ll never even bother looking at it. That type of news reading doesn’t work at all for me and many other people but Dave will never understand that.

    I’ll wait till Bloglines or someone else does what Dave is doing much better.

  6. Don

    January 1st, 2006 at 7:20 pm

    Definitely prefer to ride the rapids vs. play in the eddies.

    When you have nearly 200 feeds you want to peruse in a day, the folder approach just doesn’t cut it. Like email, I simply want to glance at what’s coming in as it arrives, and then use tagging heuristics to sort (if necessary).

    Interested to see what Dave has in store. The lack of a ’single feed’ is why I drop 90% of the RSS software out there, web-based or otherwise.

  7. Jake

    January 14th, 2006 at 7:31 am

    Yikes. Another proclaimation from on high … Winer speaks and expects us all to bow down before his grace.

    Winer has been a strong force in the online world, no doubt. But to say that there’s no innovation in the market place, so he’s going to change all that with his new tool is ridiculous. Sometimes his mouth gets away from him, and I’m to the point where I see his name and write him off before I get any further.

  8. Centro Commerciale

    September 22nd, 2006 at 3:49 am

    I don’t know very well how to use RSS.

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