Re: The constraint to widespread adoption of syndication

Morbus Iff wrote:

>>nntprss, hoping v4 will be the ticket!),  dowloading dotnet frameworks
>>or whatever else is required, and running  yet another client that looks
>>like their mail reader but isn't (i.e. syndirella, sharpreader {which I
>>personally use}, probably radio {i have never tried radio}).
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>Where does AmphetaDesk fit in? My feelings
>on usability/aggregators, in an interview:
>http://webword.com/interviews/iff.html
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Same sort of thing, although I have known several people (including 
myself) to be unable to get amphetadesk to run under windows. 

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>>isn't the business case with current volumes.  I feel aggregators must
>>be integrated into corporate email clients (like MS Outlook) for
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>I'd never ever use Outlook, let alone an add-on ;) ... I can easily see
>Outlook based aggregators, once popular, becoming yet another way for
>virii to propagate. Most people I know, including clueless business
>folk, have been moving away from Outlook, solely for their ineptitude
>("I can't trust myself"), their lack of tech ("Norton broke my email
>again"), and their fear ("did you hear the news? yet another!"). Likewise,
>in so doing, you'd be killing the Mac market for aggregators, since free
>MS email products no longer exist on OS X. ("Killing" is solely used
>in Doug's desire for email syndication).
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I use Outlook at work,  but I do not use outlook at home because I am 
afraid of making a mistake and running malware.   I don't really think 
it matters what mail reader people prefer to use, only that aggregation 
is supported in the same UI.  I don't argue for outlook in particular, 
just that a unified email/RSS/NNTP UI is the most usable.  .

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>>I think aggregators will need to be part
>>of the email client at no extra cost.
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>I disagree on the email part, personally. I don't have time to
>formulate a bulleted list of pros/cons, but perhaps sometime
>next week.
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Please do.  I have found the fastest, most efficient way for me to keep 
on top of my subscriptions is to use newsgator in outlook, with all 
feeds going into same folder, and have outlook hide read items.  I found 
this is somewhat faster than using sharpreader, and far better than 
aggie or any other aggregator producing web content.  I can select 
dozens of titles in a few seconds, mark them as read, and they 
dissappear.  Sharpreader (currently my second-favorite) requires I space 
through the article titles, and wait on each title, and the read an 
unread articles get mixed up. 

IMO Newsgator is the only aggregator I am aware of that is on the right 
path user-interface-wise.  Its faster and easier to use by far than any 
of the others I have mentioned.  Its just costly and tied to outlook..  
An NNTP or IMAP or SMTP gateway would work with pretty much any mail 
reader;  the configuration UI and install would need to be simple enough 
for your typical windows user.

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