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[darkdragon <darkdragon-001@xxxxxx>]

Just stumbled over this article:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/17/feedly-picks-up-over-500000-google-reader-defectors/

Seems like it is a good time to launch RSS readers NOW when you plan to do
something like this. But should be fast - before most users switched to
another service...


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Robert Bruce Park <
robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> With the recent announcement of the closure of Google Reader, I wanted
> to start a discussion about RSS readers.
>
> I've looked around a bit, and not only have I not found a replacement
> for Google Reader, but I've seen a lot of complaints from other people
> who also can find nothing that even comes close to comparing to Google
> Reader.
>
> So I spent a little bit of time thinking about the features that
> matter to me in an RSS reader, and it occurred to me that there is
> only *ONE*:
>
> Syncing between desktop and mobile.
>
> This means:
>
> * If I subscribe to a feed on my phone, that feed has to show up on my
> desktop (and vice versa).
> * If I read an article on my desktop, it has to show up as 'read' on
> my phone (and vice versa).
>
> Now, to bring this discussion on topic for the coreapps list, it seems
> like this kind of thing would actually be relatively trivial to
> implement with Ubuntu One and Qml:
>
> * Qml apps can trivially run both on the phone and the desktop. So
> with one codebase we can have an app that works in both places.
>
> * All we need to do is store the subscribed feed list and the article
> read states in some kind of *file* (json? sqlite?) on disk, and then
> Ubuntu One gives us the syncing *for free*.
>
> I see lp:ubuntu-rssreader-app already has some code in it, but I have
> the coreapps PPA enabled and it won't seem to run. Not sure what's
> going on there, but anyways I'm interested in contributing towards
> this end.
>
> Does anybody have any thoughts on this? Perhaps we could create a
> standard format for syncing the data, so that other apps on other
> platforms can interoperate. Perhaps such a standard already exists? A
> compatible Android app would be nice to have until Ubuntu Phone
> becomes really usable, instead of just a tech demo.
>
> Thanks everybody ;-)
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