readwriteweb.com — All versions of Pluck's RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck's web edition will be discontinued on 1/5/2007. The RSS Readers have served our community of end users well for several years, but with Pluck's focus in other business areas, the venerable RSS readers are set to be retired from our product line.
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patienceOct 29, 2006
Is this a suprise: Have you tried to explain to the average non-techie what RSS is?I have sat through 1 hour meetings at two companies in which we tried to dumb down RSS for the bosses. I am still not convinced that they got it.Is it like a podcast? What happens when I click on this orange icon? Xtm what? Yahoo?This is too confusing? Lets put another flash intro, instead.
sbovisjb1Oct 29, 2006
The Google customizable homepage was more than enough for me. And the only thing i have ever used an RSS feed for was either Azureus when im on linux or uTorrent for windows.
ghardingOct 29, 2006
RSS just needs to go away and be replaced with something along the lines of a "news push" service, instead of wasting bandwidth on polling.
cheftonyOct 29, 2006
I agree that RSS is not easily explainable in the non tech world. As a fairly tech savvy person, I was a little unsure of how to get the feed, plug into a reader...etc. I got it, and it's simple, but I was a little "late to the party" myself. Try explaining to a 50 somthing, who likes what you do, but doesn't go past email and web surfing... something easier would be a great idea. Our (I'm 37) generation should be pretty tech savvy from growing up with it, but many are not.Tony
intangibleOct 30, 2006
Rename them "Info Broadcast" for the normies.
qubert55Nov 13, 2006
Aaaw, I liked Pluck... Anyway, for digg, I use DiggWatch: <a class="user" href="http://www.diggwatch.co.nr">http://www.diggwatch.co.nr</a> . It makes a cool animation with all the digg headlines. Macs only...