Alex King and Scott Sanders have announced FeedLounge, a “state of the art web-based feed reader.” Alex invited me to be an alpha tester, so I spent some time kicking it around yesterday. Color me impressed.
FeedLounge interface screenshot
Keeping in mind that this is alpha software, I’ll grant you that I found a couple of suggestions to make. However, to echo the sentiments of Geoff, FeedLounge often feels much more like a desktop application than a web page. Clever combinations of Ajax and CSS add a ton of “hey wow” moments when using the system. As with Alex’s other works, the user interface is clean and easy to navigate.
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Whoa! It’s beautiful. I hope they contact me soon so I can try it out…
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that looks nice from a technical point of view (i.e. the desktop-app nature of it). on the other hand, i don’t like 3-pane RSS readers much any more, so i’m sure i’ll stick with bloglines for now…
I’m interested to see how this compares to NewsGator. With their acquisition of FeedDemon, I think that NewsGator is goin’ to do something rather cool by purging together offline and online feed reading. But i’m sure Alex has made something that can compete with that.
looks like a good program
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* Marco segnala FeedLounge (in alpha), un nuovo feed reader web based e anch’esso con tecnologia Ajax. Molto cool la possibilità di taggare i post come vuoi, una funzionalità che manca a Bloglines. Qualcuno ha già postato le prime impressioni.
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