Fever: taking the temperature of your slice of the web - by Shaun Inman

Re:Fever: taking the temperature of your slice of the web - ... by lacker on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @11:42AM (#661979)

This product would be nice if it was free, and if it used the css trick to detect that I use Google Reader, and offered me one click to import my Reader preferences and see what the Fever system would recommend to me.

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Re:Fever: taking the temperature of your slice of the web - ... by zimbabwe on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @11:47AM (#661986)

You've just offered what may be the ultimate gripe.

"It would be really nice if I didn't have to pay Shaun for the two (three?) years he spent developing. And also, it would be cool if it used a completely arbitrary and somewhat lame browser hack rather than using the feed import standard that every RSS program has used for years."

Do you think feed importing is new? Or that solutions don't exist that aren't complete gimmicks?

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Re:Fever: taking the temperature of your slice of the web - ... by lacker on Thursday June 18, 2009 @10:06PM (#664503)

I was just trying to give honest feedback. This feature isn't so important to me that I would pay for it, but I would try it if it was free, and if I didn't have to run a program outside the browser. I respect Shaun's work and wish him well even if he does not want to provide products for users like me, which is a totally understandable decision.

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