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Google+ No Good As A News Reader

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This is a followup on my last post about news readers.

Google+ sucks as a news aggregator. It only shows you maybe one in ten stories from each news source. I don't know if that's a feature of Google+ itself or the fact that people don't post much on Google+. But it's like this: You're following ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, a dozen tech news sites, and then you go look at your Home feed after an hour, and there's maybe one or two or three posts to look at. That's messed up. There should be like a hundred posts from all those sites.

I’m looking at Netvibes right now. My initial hit is, “Wow, this is a neat idea, but slow and poorly implemented.” I like the idea of building a “front page” that has Twitter and RSS on the same screen. But the UX feels so … 5 years ago.

Maybe this is another case where I just need to build my own reader. Of course I don’t have the time to do that. Anyone want to write it for me? :)

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