Jalada

"I helped make this; pleased to see it here. Any feedback is much appreciated." - Jalada

"BitFriends is more about discovering friends of friends that are interested in Bitcoin (or crypto-currency in general) that you might not realise are interested / know. Because you have a mutual friend, there is a potential for a trusted, out of band (no middleman!), transaction that some may consider safer than using flaky exchanges. Not only that but it’s generally more constructive to the ecosystem because it’s more about helping people out and less about turning a quick profit. But thanks for your feedback :)" - Jalada

"Thanks! That’s worth us knowing; maybe we could add more detail about how it works on the landing page, with screenshots or something." - Jalada

"There's also Loading Bar which has moved to London fairly recently: http://loadingonline.co.uk/" - Jalada

"That's a good point. I'm thinking of adding search to http://www.rivered.io (A Google Reader alternative I'm making), but it's hard to know how many people would want it..." - Jalada

"Thanks! Fixed." - Jalada

"Not sure about that error specifically, but Twitter tightened up their oAuth implementation to comply more precisely with the oAuth 1.0a standard. It might be that your implementation, which previously was 'let through' is now missing something out. I had this issue - my app wasn't sending the nonce along with the request tokens and Twitter started complaining where before it had been fine." - Jalada

"Newsblur is only free for 64 sites and 10 stories in your 'river' at a time. Some people have about 300 subscriptions to import from other RSS readers, so they would all have to pay $24/year for Newsblur. Feedly may be free, but let's see what they do when Google Reader shut down; right now they use the Google Reader API instead of their own infrastructure so their costs are going to go up a lot. Feedly is also a completely different style to Rivered. It's exactly like Google Reader. But thanks for your feedback :)" - Jalada

"That's really handy to know." - Jalada

"Completely agree, I'm not a fan of signing up with a new password too. It's on my list of things to do :) For now, I would recommend this as a good time to sort out a password manager like 1Password or LastPass so you don't have to remember random passwords :)" - Jalada

"You just need a better RSS reader. Google Reader is fundamentally designed for a world where email was the main method of communication. That's why it has unread items and folders. This is leading to me shamelessly promoting my own service: http://www.rivered.io which treats RSS more like Twitter, and relies on exactly the behaviour you describe of interesting content bubbling up, and doesn't pressure you with an unread item count. RSS is the new RSS." - Jalada

"Thanks for the coverage :) do let us know at [email protected] if you have any feedback." - Jalada

"We added Buffer support to http://www.rivered.io from day one! You mention competition and innovation but a lot of these feed readers are fundamentally the same as Google Reader. Rivered tries to do things a bit differently - it's a 'River' of news instead of an inbox. It's a bit like Twitter in that respect really; you dip in and out of the content you're interested in without the pressure of unread item counts or whatever." - Jalada

"And how do you think those companies are going to make money? The infrastructure for retrieving and storing information about thousands of RSS feeds is not simple or cheap. I guess they can always just shut down :)" - Jalada

"We have some users with over 100 RSS feeds (some with 300). In that situation I guess it really depends on your behaviour with RSS but for me I would not expect to consume all that content; just the same as when following hundreds of people on Twitter I do not expect to see all their tweets. In short, Rivered intentionally has no labeling or categorisation because I believe it is better to have a constant 'stream' of news that you dip in and out of, rather than a mailbox of news that you read from start to finish. That said, if it turns out that this is unusable for most, then I would investigate other options. But I think people are so stuck with how Google Reader works that they don't know what it's like to consume feeds differently. Because you picked Good Noows, I'll draw on it directly to say why Rivered is better. For starters I think Rivered is a lot less cluttered. I wanted to focus on a product that gets out of your way, and just leaves you with your content. Good Noows..." - Jalada

"That is a huge list! (Thanks for adding Rivered to it :) )" - Jalada

"I think you should definitely give http://rivered.io a try too. I'm a little biased because I helped make it, but it looks at consuming RSS a bit differently - instead of unread item counts and folders, it is just a simple river of news you can dip in and out of (like Twitter). It's just $2/month with a free 30 day trial and is in really early stages (I built it in less than a week!) but it's going to iterate fast, and user feedback will help that happen if you give it a try :)" - Jalada

"Google Reader dying is an opportunity to rethink how RSS is consumed, too. RSS has always been treated like an email inbox, with 'unread counts' and 'folders'. Dave Winer, father of RSS, is calling for a re-evaluation of his idea for a 'River of News', which combines the style of Twitter with RSS. We implemented exactly that in less than a week, it's called Rivered: http://www.rivered.io/" - Jalada

"Managing multiple accounts is really useful, having to sign in and out all the time is a pain. Another cool app for Instagram is Tagstar: http://tagstar.co. Rather than just being yet another Instagram client, Tagstar adds something on top - it's essentially photo competitions on top of Instagram. Worth a try. (disclosure: I helped make Tagstar)" - Jalada

"Not yet! :)" - Jalada

"Thanks :)" - Jalada

"So like a lot of people you append +name_of_site to your gmail or something? And I think you're right, there is a shortfall in Persona which means that this will be considered a 'new' email address, triggering you to set up a password. However this is a shortfall with _Persona_, which is the shim required because there are no identity providers (or browsers) supporting BrowserID (given your other comments, it seems you haven't understood this). Your problem would be completely solved by 'running your own' identity provider (or your email provider running one) that can deal with the quirk of multiple email addresses resolving to the same identity. Heck, you clearly take so much care in your identity and privacy online that perhaps you would consider running your own identity provider that works with pseudo-email addresses (the protocol doesn't require that addresses are SMTP-routable)? That way you can give sites that use BrowserID/Persona an email address that doesn't resolve to your..." - Jalada

"Use a syntax highlighter. Here are some Javascript ones: http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?..." - Jalada

"Thanks for your clarifications, I didn't realise that the classification was a minimum, this makes a lot more sense. I'm fairly sure USB2 only gives you 60MB/s at burst, and the effective throughput is much less (maybe 35MB/s?). I agree, it sounds achievable. But there's plenty of overhead and not a lot of breathing space. You're also probably going to peg the CPU as it manages all of those packets. This may not apply so much on the new distributions. I think I'll settle this by trying out my Raspberry Pi with an external SATA enclosure, set it up as a file server, and see what kind of performance I get out of it. It might be that what I consider 'reasonable' as a file server is not what others consider reasonable, perhaps I have higher standards! For the record, I did a quick benchmark with the new Raspbian distribution, and it hit values much closer to my MacBook benchmark, which is good! :)" - Jalada

"Agreed, but remember the bandwidth across the Ethernet and USB are shared." - Jalada

"But then it wouldn't degrade for people with Javascript disabled, right?" - Jalada

"I assumed that as it was rated as Class 10, it should achieve 10MB/s random access. But sure, I'll benchmark in something else to compare and update the post." - Jalada