I just got off the phone with Julian Steinberg of Inform.com. They just released the first version of their news portal. Think Google News on steroids. Shows news from around the Internet, and lets you build your own channels, add your own sources, and remix the news in a number of different ways. The only weakness I saw is that they don’t yet have many blogs (only the top 100 are in there so far) and adding your own sources isn’t straightforward (I’d like to import my OPML file with my own news sources).
But, it earns a place on my favorites. I’ll watch it for a few days to see how it compares to MSN, Google, and Yahoo’s news pages.
Scobleizer 
Import your OPML file? You don’t want to kill their service already do you? Too many feeds!
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Import your OPML file? You don’t want to kill their service already do you? Too many feeds!
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Meh. Does it come with a zcode interpreter, that’s what I want to know.
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Meh. Does it come with a zcode interpreter, that’s what I want to know.
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Clicking on a link there crashes safari 2.02 everytime.
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Clicking on a link there crashes safari 2.02 everytime.
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It’s Google News, except massively bloated, slow as molasses, and Ajaxified to the point of complete unusability.
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It’s Google News, except massively bloated, slow as molasses, and Ajaxified to the point of complete unusability.
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the only weakness I saw is that they don’t yet have many blogs
That’s actually a strength. 🙂
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the only weakness I saw is that they don’t yet have many blogs
That’s actually a strength. 🙂
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tag do you use for the new stuff like services, downloads, web sites? for posts like this? you introduce new stuff just like TechDirt does but it’s hard to find on your site.
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tag do you use for the new stuff like services, downloads, web sites? for posts like this? you introduce new stuff just like TechDirt does but it’s hard to find on your site.
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