Entries from Earthling - EarthLink blog tagged with 'Reader'
When The News River Is Swollen And Teeming
Reader is still a daily addiction for me, but it could be much better. I think there's still a huge opportunity for ours -- how about if we dedicated ourselves to making it the most stress-free and encouraging environment out there for getting through your morning's work?
Security Center Out Of Beta And myEarthLink Feature
You might remember the new EarthLink Security Center from its beta launch back in April. Kinks have been worked out, a little polish has been added, and as of yesterday Security Center is now officially out there as a full product. As you may have noticed, our beta releases don't tend to stay in beta for long. Keep up with ongoing news about the Security Center and talk to the team via their product blog.
Now Recently Updated Lives On myEarthLink Too
There's now a way to keep an eye on the sources in your Reader from your myEarthLink Start Page. The new Reader widget shows you all of your recently updated Reader feeds at a glance. It's a similar view to what you get on the side within Reader itself, and when you click a source it takes you to that source's content in Reader.
..So Then India Called Me For Tech Support
Often in a blog entry when you see the terms "India" and "tech support" in the same sentence, you've come to expect some sort of bitter rant to follow. I've received my share of e-mails and read my share of blog entries about bad support experiences, ours included. Last night I had an unexpected, amusing, and positive experience with our customer service team overseas that made me think about how small the world has become.
Reader Update
I just put a brief message up on the myEarthLink Reader blog explaining some issues we noticed this morning with some users. In case anyone's feed is affected, I wanted to put the link up here too.
50 Percent of Moms of Guys Named Dave Use RSS
I was eating lunch and chatting during a break at the BlogHer conference this past weekend, and who did I spy over my right shoulder but RSS/OPML developer Dave Winer. Dave gave Reader a good review a couple of weeks ago, and I took the opportunity to thank him in person, and ask for more feedback.
Why Read Blogs: Roll Your Own News Coverage
This is part three in a series of ideas about how blogs can be useful in your life, beyond the "blogs are great" headlines. Part one was about staying in touch, and part two was about choosing knowable sources.
Framing Reader
The letters RSS can bring anxiety (or blank stares) to many. Our goal with reader was to expose the idea of reading feeds instead of web sites to many more people than know about it today, and do it in a way that doesn't give anybody nightmares. At it's best, an experience with a feed reader should remove several steps in your quest to stay connected with your friends, colleagues, and the world around you. It should bring you information and entertaining content that you didn't know was out there. And it shouldn't bring on additional anxiety. It's an exciting space because it's still new and wide open. No one has yet defined the ideal RSS reading experience, and in fact one size may not fit all.
Cat's Out Of The Bag on Reader and myFavorites
Yes, it's true. We've quietly exposed a new RSS reader and social bookmarking application to a small subset of our users.
Seeking An RSS Reader For The Rest Of Us
EarthLink's Director of Web Applications Gregg Hartling borrows Earthling to share some thoughts about RSS readers, inspired by today's TechCrunch article: "I read through today's excellent TechCrunch review of web-based feed readers with great interest. I've been championing RSS at...
How To Get Your Arms Around RSS
In simple terms, RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is the key part of a system for receiving some or all of a web site's content somewhere else. That somewhere else could be a special web site, a part of your web browser, or a separate application on your computer. So far you can't read RSS feeds on the back of a cereal box or on your naked arm, but give M.I.T. some time and they'll make it happen.
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