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Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Randy Charles Morin — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:44:17 -0000

Last week, I restarted Rmail as Reblinks.com. It's a replacement for Rmail/SendMeRSS and something to consider also for abandoned RssFwd users.
http://www.reblinks.com/

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Eric Friedman — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:25:22 -0000

Anyone have a good alternative for RSS to Email functionality?

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mike — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:28:33 -0000

Found another site that provides this kind of service www.rss2m.com.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

soelo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:05:49 -0000

I had the exact same thought when I saw that they tweeted it but didn't put anything on their front page. I even asked them about it and they said "Because we might not close ;)"

Wow. I also read it on their wordpress blog and commented, but they have not approved it yet.

I have had success with notify.me, iNeZha.com and xfruits as well.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

L Mohan Arun — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:04:19 -0000

The reason I use RSSFWD is because my Google Reader is overflowing with feeds and it is not easy to search for very old items that you recall you have read somewhere before. With RSSFWD those posts come in to my Gmail where I can search for them easily. So I am using RSSFWD and XFRUITS for now. I am also subscribed to FEEDSCRUB though I would prefer that they would let me just specify the keywords I want to block. I have a long list of blockable keywords like "Android" "Firefox" "Bollywood" "Dubai" "Python" "Blackberry" etc.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Phil Hollows — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:44:10 -0000

The problem with "free" is that ultimately it's an untenable business model whenm eyeballs are hard to monetize, which is the case if your primary delivery vehicle is email. All the free services are dying bar Feedburner and FeedBlitz for lack of a business model and consequent lack of revenues to keep it going. Doing email and deliverability is hard to do well in volume.

The problem with FeedBurner is that they're not interested in email, and that post-Google acquisition that's likely to worsen, not improve. My company, FeedBlitz, goes from strength to strength, but we're improving our business model every day.

Revenues Matter.

If you find something delivers something valuable got you, you should be prepared to pay for it.

Which is why FeedBlitz is still here.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Yan — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:11:19 -0000

What about feedmyinbox ?

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Nicholas Quixote — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:34:23 -0000

I used this. Just for the very few RSSI want to really make sure I see. Why can't all you free services keep chugging along. I'll be sorry to see you go?

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Christopher Fahey — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:17:21 -0000

The problem with the service was that it performed badly and was designed poorly. New news would arrive sometimes as much as 24 hours after the fact. Also, if I remember correctly, it would bundle many news items into longer emails, making the act of reading, marking read, saving, and forwarding messages etc, entirely useless.

Email clients and RSS readers are so similar that it's frustrating to have to have two applications. RSS-to-Email can still work if done correctly: Instantly moving news items from the moment they appear in a feed to a single email to the end user.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Timothy — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:40:24 -0000

Why not use Google Reader in the first place? It's a great service.

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John Engler — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:31:32 -0000

@ggroovin I'm an OtherInbox beta user, and I can confirm that OtherInbox definitely does this... I'm subscribed to a few RSS feeds with it, and those feeds show up in my inbox with all of my other email that I would rather get in my other inbox. Great service. Try to get a beta invite if you're looking for this functionality, or if you're looking for a way to make sure all of the email you currently get in your primary inbox doesn't get in your way anymore.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

arshad — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:56:09 -0000

i have never heard about it

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

@ggroovin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:48:00 -0000

Actually, it appears that www.OtherInbox.com (currently in beta) supports RSS to e-mail in their service.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Domains — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:32:43 -0000

Even me! This is my first time of hearing about this service and curousity made me read the post. I have ever been using feedburner and happy with that

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Troy Malone — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:34:10 -0000

Regardless of whether the service meets your needs or not, it is a very bad way to announce such news. A detailed blog post with what you can do to transition to another service for instance would have been a bit more dignified.

While the Web 2.0 space has been celebrated as an environment where literally anyone can build a good app. without a large expenditure, this is the other side of that argument.

We have many more announcements like this coming and I hope that the next unfortunate companies handle it a bit better.

That having been said, attrition is a healthy thing and will help those companies that are making headway consolidate a stronger position which is good for everyone. Just look at Evernote's windfall over the past few days after Google's announcement!

Troy Malone
Pelotonics

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Jennifer Van Grove — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:31:30 -0000

Michael, ok you win that point. Not only would they have never heard of RSSFWD, but the name would probably be lost on them completely.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Michael Bailey — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:25:02 -0000

Hi Jennifer,

Perhaps you are right.

I would counter that with a statement along the lines of, if they don't know enough to use a reader, they've probably never heard of RSSFWD. Ya know?

Plus, if you read their last 10 Tweets or so, they were thinking about canning the service since last September/October anyhow.

True, it's sorry to see yet another free service fall by the wayside, but someone has to pay for these things. It won't surprise me if Twitter itself closes up shop.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Lindsay — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:22:31 -0000

I don't want RSS to Email to go into my email inbox, but I do want it to go into email enabled services that archive stuff for me, like Evernote. I used to use R|Mail and they went away, then I tried RSSFWD (though it hasn't been working for me for months now) and now it's going away. I finally resorted to setting up a FeedBurner feed with an email subscription for the RSS I want emails for and use that. It's not real-time (it's a daily summary) but better than nothing at all.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Jennifer Van Grove — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:19:48 -0000

Hey Michael, it's not a service for you or I, but for someone who doesn't use a reader (which is most of the people I know outside the web/tech space) it's a convenient way to consume information.

Re: RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter

Michael Bailey — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:15:51 -0000

It's already enough of a chore to sort the incoming email(s) for most of us. With Google Reader being what it is, along with being free and simple to use, I never did understand why anyone would want RSS content delivered to them via email.