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Rososo: ultrasimple RSS

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I like the simple but dramatic screenshot

Wow, this is brilliant. Very useful for me who always checks blogs over and over for new content.

Yeah. If you haven't seen it, the guy who made this also made NowDoThis(.com). It's the sort of stuff I call "zenware": stuff so simple you can't tinker with it. It's great.

Really? Wow, I respect this guy.

He's a bit controversial - Gawker loathes him - but for me, all that matters is that he makes good apps. He's had his hand in some other big things, too: www.jakoblodwick.com has a partial list, and he was one of the CollegeHumor founders. (Talk about an increase in taste.)

Nice simple idea, but I won't be using it because it won't be as efficient as browsing headlines/summaries from many sites as once. Still, this could find a decent little niche.

What? I added a blog and I did not see any feeds. It just gave me a link to the blog, I clicked through, came back and the link was gone.

Yeah. That's how it works. The link appears when there's been an update. Until then it's listed as a "stale bookmark."

Does this require cookies? I enabled Javascript and it still doesn't (seem to) work.

It might. I'm not certain.

RSS readers never work with certain blogs i read for some reason.

What do you mean, "never work?"

they don't update correctly from certain blogspot blogs. maybe it's something on my end.

i don't get it... a concept?

I've been using it as my main newsreader for a few days. It's done pretty well so far.

ah! i loaded it in linux last night, and the css or something isn't right and could only see the screenshot. then, now in xp, it says http://news.ycombinator.com/rss is a bad feed, which is ironic. they wrote their own rss logic or something? i thought others were worrying about such things now

Knowing the creator, I'd guess that they made it from scratch.

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