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My Feedreader Sucks

Daniela Hinrichs on 20.04.2006 at 14:04 h

I was pretty much enthusiastic, when we launched the personalised RSS feed the other day. I really love things like that. They make my life more comfy. Fabulous!

So imagine me sitting in front of my laptop, being all exited and looking forward to get this feed running, no one could have stopped me from installing this new little awsome feature. And guess what, it didn´t work. Me, still exited and far away from being disappointed, searching the whole office to find a geek telling me how blonde I was. Well found one, he didn´t agree on the fact that I´ve a lack of technical understanding and installed it.

Now, what I realised was, that my feedreader (feedreader.com) doesn´t work perfectly. He`s a kind of web1.0 feed reader I guess. I can see the people who´ve recently visited my contact page but not where they´re coming from. Mmmhm?

After talking to some of you I realised that there are probably better solutions available. Which feed reader is on top of your list? And did any of you had the same hassle as this little RSS chap?

PS: using a PC btw

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Björn wrote on Apr 20, 2006 2:35:55 PM:

Luckily, I don't have a WinPC, but on my Mac I use Newsfire... lightweight, reliable and fast...

http://www.newsfirerss.com/

Or how about using a webbased system... e.g. bloglines.com or newsgator.com

Murali - Don wrote on Apr 20, 2006 3:14:27 PM:

http://reader.blogexplosion.com/

http://www.pluck.com/products/rss-reader.html

http://www.activerefresh.com

And some notes...

The 1st one, BlogReader is a newbie, a bit lean but impressive. I just started using it...

The second Pluck is, probably feature oriented, but I had some version issues. Some of my pals stand by it as the best in the circuit..

The third, ActiveRefresh is the best I've used and continue to be my favourite. But their website is down and the link seems dead. The Reader works perfectly though and I have about 2300 Feeds active in it. If the link does not work, lemme know and I'll send you the install file (740kb).

Cheers and Keep the Party Alive..

Isotopp wrote on Apr 20, 2006 4:00:58 PM:

I tried to access the page using my web browser (Konqueror) or my feed reader (aKregator). Both did not accept my login - User name is "Kristian Köhntopp", yes, with an umlaut, and I provided my regular OpenBC password. I was not able to log in. I assume this is because of an Umlaut encoding problem (using UTF-8 Umlauts,

Toomas Toots wrote on Apr 20, 2006 4:43:51 PM:

Yes, Feedreader 2.9 is quite Web 1.0 RSS reader. But tomorrow there will be available new version 3.0. I think you should check it out. It brings all the rss experience to new level.

Greetings
Toomas
Feedreader

lars hinrichs wrote on Apr 20, 2006 6:08:23 PM:

I installed this RSS Feed in my Firefox Livebookmarks. With 1 Click i see now everybody. Its much more onvenient then before. And, i have to say i use now even more. We will do more of this!

marco foellmer wrote on Apr 20, 2006 6:14:30 PM:

Hi my recommendation is:

http://www.curiostudio.com/

cheers marco ;-)

alfonso wrote on Apr 20, 2006 6:21:29 PM:

Dear Daniela,
had the same experience... I tried to include it in my active desktop http://www.netvibes.com and it doesn't work at all! >1 Mio users there would sure love this feature, maybe somebody at epublica could investigate? thanks & cu soon

Michael Otto wrote on Apr 20, 2006 10:46:59 PM:

Hi Mr Köhntopp,

Umlauts in user name and/or password should work as of now.

Regards,

Michael Otto

Michael Otto wrote on Apr 20, 2006 10:49:31 PM:

Hi Alfonso,

you wouldn't want to disclose your user name / password to netvibes, would you?

Netvibes and other public aggregators are not capable of handling personal rss feeds. And are not intended to do something like that.

Regards,

Michael Otto

Norbert wrote on Apr 20, 2006 10:50:02 PM:

A german umlaut or other special characters in your password or username should now also work for rss feed authenfication.

Regards, Norbert

Kristian Köhntopp wrote on Apr 21, 2006 9:32:32 AM:

Yesterday afternoon somebody from OpenBC phones me and asked permission to change my username to "Kristian Koehntopp" in order to help testing - thank you for the response, guys!

Using this name, I can log into the openBC web application (application authentication) and into the RSS feed (http authentication) just fine, using only simple 7 bit ascii. Which is good, because it works, and is bad, because my username now is not my name. Always complaining... :)

Anyway, aKregator now works:

http://vvv.koehntopp.de/openbc-feed.png

If you would kindly change the "ö" back into the name I'd like to test with umlauts as well.

Regards,
Kris

Timo wrote on Apr 21, 2006 10:54:46 AM:

Changed it back. Good luck with testing.

Kristian Köhntopp wrote on Apr 21, 2006 11:26:47 AM:

Thank you, Timo. Works like a charm.

Mario Heiderich wrote on Apr 23, 2006 8:02:15 PM:

Try Sage - it's a lightweight and handy Firefox plugin and on my PC the feed is displayed right with all delivered info:

http://www.erweiterungen.de/detail/92/

Stefan Evertz wrote on Apr 28, 2006 9:52:33 AM:

Maybe the Omea Reader (http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/) is worth a try. He is capable of managing logins for Feeds and is the most interesting Desktop Application for reading RSS-Feeds i have found yet.