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2013-03-14
, 09:03
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#12
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Originally Posted by Cue
Because Microsoft never started out with CalDav or IMAP from day one. You know the deal when you signed up with Microsoft, using proprietary technology is not necessarily evil by my book. And they have been consistently using Exchange protocol all this while.
I beg to differ because I don't see the difference between the two. What exactly is the difference between Google using their own proprietary calendar protocol and not Caldav and Microsoft using their own proprietary calendar protocol and not Caldav? If anything Google is becoming more and more like MS day by day. If this is considered "evil" then I don't see how it is "more evil" than the person whose practices you are slowly leaning towards.
However Google is switching from open technologies to proprietary technology once they gained popularity, systematically bringing their consumers/users to that path is pure evil. Google made a bait and switch.
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2013-03-14
, 11:05
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@ Vienna, Austria
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#14
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Wasn't it a perversion in the first place to add yet an additional hop plus a single point of failure to the we we consume RSS feeds? It's just not how RSS was supposed to work for end users. (Plus, it was a Google service, so people should have avoided it from the start.)
What's the big deal? Add your feeds to a feed reader the way other people do.
What's the big deal? Add your feeds to a feed reader the way other people do.
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2013-03-14
, 11:57
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#15
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Originally Posted by benny1967
That single point (of failure) had an advantage. You could use multiple devices and have the same state on each one (a read article appears as read everywhere).
Wasn't it a perversion in the first place to add yet an additional hop plus a single point of failure to the we we consume RSS feeds? It's just not how RSS was supposed to work for end users. (Plus, it was a Google service, so people should have avoided it from the start.)
What's the big deal? Add your feeds to a feed reader the way other people do.
IMHO. This is what I miss on my N900 and my computer.
A feed reader, multi platform, with synchronization of read articles and off-line capabilities. Being able to access my feeds when using somebody else's computer (ie. web access) is only a plus.
If someone has a solution. I take it immediately.
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2013-03-14
, 13:49
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#16
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So is Web Feeds best futureproof reader for N9?
It supports NewsBlur but I guess Tiny RSS is promised but still missing?
http://store.ovi.com/content/261063
It supports NewsBlur but I guess Tiny RSS is promised but still missing?
http://store.ovi.com/content/261063
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2013-03-14
, 14:00
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#17
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I am trying to set up the old reader, currently having issues importing subcription due to overwhelming server load.
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2013-03-14
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#18
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Originally Posted by kai_en
No feelings but confirmed knowledge that cloud and cloud-like services simply cannot be trusted in any way.
So Google decided to pull the plug on Google Reader on its second massive spring cleaning.
So how do you guys feel?
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2013-03-14
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#19
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Originally Posted by darodi
Well, at better had at least one advantage...
That single point (of failure) had an advantage. You could use multiple devices and have the same state on each one (a read article appears as read everywhere).
Still people need to understand that the point of the internet is to have a de-centralized infrastructure, and the only sane way to use it in the long run is to not rely on any central service for anything. (One day twitter and facebook will go out of business. I'm really looking forward to that day.)
People may have had one advantage with Google Reader... but now they're lost again. Is it worth it?
(I don't see much of this advantage anyway. I don't recall ever having set a feed entry to 'read'... what for? And not in my wildest drems would I want to have all those feeds from my desktop appear on my mobile. Different usage patterns, other focus of interest...)
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2013-03-14
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#20
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There goes my daily feeds subscription to Kindle 
I find RSS really useful eventhough nowadays most feeds have only small part of the actual article. It's useful enough for me to see whether it is worth reading the article at all after the headline. RSS is also handy for following web comics and manga, having to manually check each site for releases is just too tiring.
I find RSS really useful eventhough nowadays most feeds have only small part of the actual article. It's useful enough for me to see whether it is worth reading the article at all after the headline. RSS is also handy for following web comics and manga, having to manually check each site for releases is just too tiring.
On further derailing the thread:
Did someone look into ownCloud recently?
Last edited by michaaa62; 2013-03-14 at 09:03.