Tue, 12 Oct 2004
Give Unneeded GMail Invites to a Good Home
Do you have a couple of spare Gmail invites laying around (guvner)? If so
you probably already use FireFox as your web-browser of
choice, and a good choice at that!, but just think of the poor untold
hordes of IE users just
waiting to be saved.
"What can I do to help?" you may ask, well for a start you can donate a couple of GMail invites to the Spread FireFox GMail Project. These invites will be given to people proudly displaying FireFox buttons on their own web-sites. FireFox gets more PR, the site owner gets a Gmail account, you get the warm glow of giving back to the FireFox team and the web gets a better client base.
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Posted: 2004/10/12 23:12 | /tools/firefox | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Rojo.com RSS Aggregator
Like most geeks I'm an information junkie, I have news sites, developer
blogs, security alerts and even a couple of system logs piped to me
via the bandwidth eating medium of
RSS. I started off using
FeedReader but soon felt the need for something a little more powerful and
swapped to the excellent, if quite memory intensive and slow to start, SharpReader.
After six months of happy usage the restriction of only accessing my subscriptions from a single machine began to get to me. After a brief stint using Bloglines, a webbased aggregator that solves the synchronisation problem by storing state on an Internet server, the UI began to annoy me so I switched back to SharpReader; and then I saw Jeremy Zawodny's Rojo coverage.
To be honest the fact it's a web based aggregator would have been enough for me to bookmark the company name for consideration the next time I tried to swap but the social networking aspect was enough of a pull to encourage me to send an invite begging^Wrequesting a beta account. And they gave me access.
I've now been using Rojo for two days and I'm very happy with it so far, although I've not yet dived into the social aspects it is well worth a look on basic features and UI alone. I have about 108 feeds in SharpReader and the OPML importer was 97%(ish) successful, it picked up I had some dead feeds in my list, and after submitting some feedback on the four it kicked out I received a response from Rojo within about 10 minutes so I'm impressed. How long will the honeymoon period last? I don't know but I do have a funny feeling I'll be blogging some of it's other distinct features in the not so distant future.
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Posted: 2004/10/12 22:41 | /tools/online | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
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