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Is it just me, or is the site 404ing. Good joke whomever put this all together.

Wow, this is an insane article. To suggest that a women, just because she is a women, shouldn't bring harrasement lawsuits beacause that would make all women seem uppity is so antiquated.

Sure, but your missing the point. RSS is also an ecosystem. If there are no producers, or readers, there are no consumers. If the ecosystem goes away people won't use RSS anymore. Making it effectively dead.

Google Kils Google Reader

Is an interesting thought experiment. In one stroke Google could wipe out a large tent pole for the RSS eco system. Wouldn't that effectively make RSS dead?

Not only do people use Google Reader as means to read RSS, way to many RSS Readers use Google Reader as the crawling infrastructure for there app.(Newsblur being a notable exception). So killing google reader would pwn a large number of apps.

After the main support is gone, why would you build RSS into your product at all? Can RSS, that is propped up by one tenuous pole, last forever?

In the short term I suppose you might not want to use markdown. But, in the log run markdown would be better then most wyswigs, and if you have a population of users who are sufficiently technical, or need to do something more intricate then a couple paragraphs markdown really is the way to go.

I think markdown could be the lingua franca of publishers. HTML would be the best, but it's a bit to specialized. Where as markdown walks the line of being specialized yet easy enough to learn that it won't scare away brand new users. I mean markdown can interpret plain text into something useful. If enough non-technical sites adopted markdown, front and center, it could spread widely.

Just please, please, please, don't BS in an unscripted manner for the first 5 minutes. Get to the meat.

You could use third party auth, like facebooks. you could use an iFrame on another domain to setup all the secure stuff, and then use something like easyXDM to communicate with that iFrame.

I think it's also safe to say that Facebook, and Instagram are worth more because they're more personal. In terms of the greater good, The New York Times probably serves a greater purpose, and it also costs more to run. In terms of the individual, Facebook is worth more to them. It seems like these social products deliver more value to individuals, and so going forward are going to be worth more then newspapers.

I don't think it matters what came first. CoffeeScript has had a great effect on hearts, and minds because you can use it. It matters that CoffeeScript exists because people can wrap there head around new concepts and ideas. Only once people really understand an idea can we determine if it's good, or bad.

Fat arrow is well understood in the JS community because of CoffeeScript, and that is one reason why people are pushing for fat arrow to be accepted. I personally think CoffeeScripts has had a very large impact on the idea.

This is a great talk to watch about the development of JS. It's been a while since I watched it, but the point I was making, and the point I gleaned from this talk, is that new ideas need a test bed, and according to Eich Coffeescript is one of those places where new ideas are tested, and derived from.

http://vimeo.com/27911873

http://brendaneich.com/2011/08/my-txjs-talk-twitter-remix/

I think its absolutely because of languages like coffee script that JavaScript is changing, but don't take my word for it. You can find statments from standards makers to the same effect.

If its that important you could just use Coffescript while you wait.

Should note that it's chrome only.

Code is just like other external indicators to who you are. Talking, clothes, hair style all inform people as to who you are.

I don't think that was what the article was about, but I think that bare statement,"Your identity ≠ Your code", is wrong.

It was like ICQ but only for people physically near you.

You mean besides all their UI widgets, right?

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html

It's probably not that hard to reverse engineer what they are doing with Stacker.

Twitter open sourcing bootstrap just made the whole web better. Open source projects especially. Projects like https://github.com/dcramer/sentry benefitted a lot from bootstrap.

Making UI open source helps everyone.

Why not just create a CSS generator. That helps someone tweak there button down to the very last detail, and then just charge them 50 cents for that one button.

Wow, if they include extensions. This could be huge.

I actually wrote about this a couple of days ago. Winer even responded to me on twitter. I think we need to change the premise of the conversation. That might help inspire a new generation of young startups.

http://www.rumproarious.com/2012/01/31/rss-needs-a-new-pr-te...

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+1 on pinboard. I think they solve the saving things for a longer period of time. They also seem to be self sufficient. But even pinboard suffers from the one man hit by a bus problem.

I agree, but it's still missing folders. Oh, and this is something I forgot in my first point, where is the ecosystem. It's a nice new RSS reader, but it's web only. I use a couple different clients in connection with Google Reader. These guys are starting with nothing.

RSS isn't ever going to be a big deal. If you are thinking in terms of market size it's never going to be really big. Facebook, and Google+ have both taken the subscription model in a direction that is more consumer friendly.

If you accept that premise, you are building a product for informed, longish-term computer users, and you are treating them like they are beginners. If my intrest was piqued by RSS I probably already use an RSS reader, and have a bunch of feeds I want to use.

You are missing the ability for me to organize my feeds into folders. I have a lot of feeds, and I need folders to triage my reading into a sliding scale from important to least important.

After all of this keep it up, because I am, and I think many others are, willing to pay for an app that does RSS reading well.

In edit subscriptions you can do an OPML import. I had the same first thought.

What is broken though is they don't seem to support folders.

Still no write API, wtf?

So, first the article talks about strings, but then does all of it's examples using floats. We all make mistakes. Hopefully we can help with that.

The root issue here is that the developer assumed how somethig worked, and didnt bother to learn how it actually worked.

I actually do have issues with data attribute for this exact reason, but that is no excuse for not looking up how it actually works.

You can do something like this with mixpanel if you don't want to setup a whole server. I wrote about it.

http://alexkessinger.net/2010/12/17/doing-a-pixel-ping-witho...