Morbus Iff wrote:
Same sort of thing, although I have known several people (including myself) to be unable to get amphetadesk to run under windows.nntprss, hoping v4 will be the ticket!), dowloading dotnet frameworks or whatever else is required, and running yet another client that looks like their mail reader but isn't (i.e. syndirella, sharpreader {which I personally use}, probably radio {i have never tried radio}).Where does AmphetaDesk fit in? My feelings on usability/aggregators, in an interview: http://webword.com/interviews/iff.html
I use Outlook at work, but I do not use outlook at home because I am afraid of making a mistake and running malware. I don't really think it matters what mail reader people prefer to use, only that aggregation is supported in the same UI. I don't argue for outlook in particular, just that a unified email/RSS/NNTP UI is the most usable. .isn't the business case with current volumes. I feel aggregators must be integrated into corporate email clients (like MS Outlook) forI'd never ever use Outlook, let alone an add-on ;) ... I can easily see Outlook based aggregators, once popular, becoming yet another way for virii to propagate. Most people I know, including clueless business folk, have been moving away from Outlook, solely for their ineptitude ("I can't trust myself"), their lack of tech ("Norton broke my email again"), and their fear ("did you hear the news? yet another!"). Likewise, in so doing, you'd be killing the Mac market for aggregators, since free MS email products no longer exist on OS X. ("Killing" is solely used in Doug's desire for email syndication).
Please do. I have found the fastest, most efficient way for me to keep on top of my subscriptions is to use newsgator in outlook, with all feeds going into same folder, and have outlook hide read items. I found this is somewhat faster than using sharpreader, and far better than aggie or any other aggregator producing web content. I can select dozens of titles in a few seconds, mark them as read, and they dissappear. Sharpreader (currently my second-favorite) requires I space through the article titles, and wait on each title, and the read an unread articles get mixed up. IMO Newsgator is the only aggregator I am aware of that is on the right path user-interface-wise. Its faster and easier to use by far than any of the others I have mentioned. Its just costly and tied to outlook.. An NNTP or IMAP or SMTP gateway would work with pretty much any mail reader; the configuration UI and install would need to be simple enough for your typical windows user.I think aggregators will need to be part of the email client at no extra cost.I disagree on the email part, personally. I don't have time to formulate a bulleted list of pros/cons, but perhaps sometime next week.
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