Hacker News Reader

Went to try it out but it requires signing into your twitter account and they get access to:

- Update your profile.

- Post Tweets for you.

That's not cool.

Version 1 doesn't require you to sign in:

It saves a single document in your browser's local storage.

OWL is a nifty fork of Dave Winer's work that stores all data locally and doesn't require a Twitter account.

That looks interesting. It also has a web.py server that can be used to store data on a server somewhere.

Good stuff.