"Have you ever heard of Google Notebook? How about Knol? iGoogle? Wave? Buzz? PigeonRank? These were all Google products that, while they had some merit, never caught on with users. They weren't good enough, and so they died a deserved death."
Louis Gray,
Joint Surgerymd,
Steven Perez,
imabonehead,
Brian Fitzpatrick,
Osiride,
Sean McBride,
Maitani,
bentley,
fewdayslate,
Big Joe Silenced,
WoH: Professor MOTHRA,
Micah,
and
OCoG of FF, Jimminy
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PigeonRank? Really???
- Amit Patel
I loved the PigeonRank paper. http://www.google.com/technol...
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
This is from Eric Schmidt's new book
- Amit Patel
lol, maybe he's trying to see if people are paying attention, by monitoring change in number of hits to the PigeonRank page.
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
His book about Google is not even in Google Books!
- Amit Patel
They didn't really give wave much of a chance.
- Todd Hoff
I loved the Pigeon Rank paper.
- bentley
Google Reader was very good
- Smeerch
RIP Google Reader (makes crossing signs)
- Todd Hoff
Google Reader was my favorite news service from the first week it was released. Now I make due with Zite, Prismatic and SmartNews.
- Sean McBride
Feedly was on my radar for a time, but I lost interest once it became clear that it was not interested in developing artificial intelligence approaches for personalized news recommendations. If news isn't smart, I'm not interested.
- Sean McBride
I love feedly precisely because I can look at all my feeds. That's the only way to go truly deep. Sometimes the deepest nuggets are in an HN thread, a stackoverflow thread, an email list, or on google groups. Your algorithm will never surface those unless somebody bootstraps them first. Who are the bootsrappers?
- Todd Hoff
Have you tried using Zite enough for it to calibrate itself to your interests with depth and precision? It regularly pushes the most esoteric and valuable stuff to the top of my queue. I don't have time to browse through the more than 1,000 feeds I subscribe to on Feedly. I need a smart service to browse for me. Feedly is a "dumb" news service (in the technical sense).
- Sean McBride
Over time I used Google Reader more and more as a dumb reader. It's not able to guess my mood — whether I want to read long essays or whether I want to read about new software or whether I want to read comics.
- Amit Patel
[insert Cristo comment about being mad at iGoogle's removal]
- Stephen Mack
I am impressed by the user interface for [SmartNews https://www.smartnews.com/] -- anyone else agree?
- Sean McBride
I miss Google Reader.
- Steven Perez
But the Google Reader interface now looks ancient, clunky and dusty.
- Sean McBride