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Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Gary — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:56:12 -0000

Basically what fav.or.it is doing by providing 2000 selected feeds is advancing the readership of a very small selection of websites. What about all the other websites out there? There is a heck of a lot of great content out there that is not on the select 2000 websites but these are being disadvantaged by sites such as fav.or.it which only provide a fraction of a percent of the knowledge and content available on the 'web. At least Technorati (yes, I know it's slightly different!)and others give the opportunity for the majority of websites to promote their content.

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Steven Finch — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:08:44 -0000

What I really dont like about sites like this is the fact that they use the content of each blog, then turn it into their own page, so the actual blog and story doesnt get any traffic from the site. So there better be some benefit in terms of link juice or it is just another complete waste of time!

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:54:02 -0000

agreed ... hopefully they listen :-)

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Richie — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:41:18 -0000

I was interested up to the point you said they don't allow you to add your own feeds.

I realise that they are aiming at normal people, but normal people want to subscribe to their flickr comments, facebook notifications and their employer's RSS streams, which are never going to be in a directory.

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Daniel Saxil-Nielsen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:17:13 -0000

@Aaron Powell sorry you can't import your own feeds at the moment. We currently cover 2000 of the most popular feeds, which are all nicely categorised. We plan to expand that really soon as we scale up our service. We have got some nifty ideas to overcome the problem of not being able to import your feeds but decided that this was a move we had to take, primarily because we didn't want users to be faced with random 'rubbish'.

Has anyone mentioned the widget yet?

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Facey Spacey Development — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:41:09 -0000

I think the reason they do it is so commenting from within fav.or.it works for all blogs. I really think not working out a hybrid scenario is going to prevent them from reaching that "tipping point" they need to reach to become extremely popular.

I honestly think that a small company will never, or at least have an extremely hard time, making the cross-site comment thing work, let alone be one of their core offerings. I think the attention data thing will probably take its place as the crux or clincher in their offering. What other sites are really paving the way in attention data usage for recommendations???

James
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FaceySpacey.com - "The Startup Incubator"

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:13:19 -0000

yea, personally I would re-think this move if I were them

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Aaron Ross Powell — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:18:56 -0000

Importing of a feed list downloaded from Google Reader seems to be broken for me -- it keeps telling me the data is invalid. And I think not being able to add my own feeds is a deal breaker. The interface is nice and the integrated commenting is a great idea, but I want to be able to read what I want to read.

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Brian Kissel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:21:28 -0000

Following up on Adam Ostrow's comments, you can improve the OpenID login experience with ID Selector (www.idselector.com). With this universal login widget, the user only has to select their OpenID provider from a picklist, enter their account name (not the full OpenID URL), and login.

The ID Selector remembers user preferences, thereby providing "single click login" on return visits. The user doesn't have to type in anything.

Additionally, the ID Selector remembers your preferences across sites so that you get single click login across all websites using it. There's a list of some sites using ID Selector at https://www.idselector.com/...

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Daniel Saxil-Nielsen — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:45:58 -0000

True, Plaxo is simple but it just a link, we have a cool popup box which lets you easily enter your OpenID to lots of services (as well as Yahoo).

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

stewart townsend — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:37:24 -0000

Great to see fav.or.it live, one of the very first Startup Essentials Customers in the UK, who learned how a $14bn giant can help them, check out the FT this week, PR for Nic and also more to come over the next month.....great to see Coolthreads massively scaling, but low cost....

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Adam Hirsch — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:26:55 -0000

I'm loving the Comments integration and clean look. Google can learn a few things from fav.or.it...

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Adam Ostrow — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:16:00 -0000

true, but on fav.or.it, when you click OpenID, it asks you to put in your OpenID URL. Not nearly as straightforward as the Yahoo implementation on some other sites like Plaxo.

Re: Fav.or.it Opens its Doors to All; Can It Bring RSS to the Masses?

Daniel Saxil-Nielsen — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:07:51 -0000

Yahoo supports OpenID, so you can log in using your Yahoo account :).