Lazyscope updated tonight (cool Twitter client that uses RSS

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The new changes are solid. While I understand the reason behind using Air, I share Scoble's opinion that this becomes a lot more useful when I can use it in a tablet or mobile environment as that's where I do most of my content consumption right now.

With that said, I've been a Lazyscope user for a while and it currently handles my desktop consumption needs adequately. Kudos to the team on the update!

> this becomes a lot more useful when I can use it in a tablet or mobile environment

Air is already available for a lot of mobile environments and should be a pretty good universal cross platform technology across nearly every mobile and tablet environment soon. I would have picked that as a big advantage of using Air rather than a downside.

I'm using this with @HNFirehose ( www.twitter.com/HNfirehose ) added and it's working great. What do you guys think about using Lazyscope for subscribing to Hackernews articles?

Cool interview by Scoble! I've been using this for a while now and I read so much more simply because it saves me that one important click, love this thing!

A clever use of RSS without explaining to the users that this is driven by RSS. Very nice but the software is proprietary... maybe alternatives will pop up.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by proprietary?

Maybe he/she is referring to the fact that this is running on Adobe AIR?

But aren't all desktop applications built on proprietary technologies? I am curious.

Firefox (without proprietary plug-ins), vim, gimp, Pidgin, GNOME, Inkscape, Evince, F-Spot, VLC, MPlayer, Thunderbird,... are not built on proprietary technologies.

Aren't they ultimately all built on top of Windows and Mac? (Which are proprietary technologies)

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