Regarding my post about feeds readers, I received an email from Nick Denton, Kinja's president, who was surprised to know that Kinja could not read some feeds, asking me to give him some examples.
Therefore, I decided to re-log in to my account at Kinja, and give it another try. I discovered that I made some mistakes when I used it for the first time few months ago. Nevertheless, Kinja was functioning properly this time.
However, I still cannot understand the technology behind Kinja. During my email conversation with Mr. Denton, he told me that Kinja could read all blogs "whether they have RSS or not." "We parse the HTML, looking for patterns in the code," he added. So, according to his email "RSS is nice, but not essential."
Kinja asks you to enter the URL in the "example.com" form. This sounds interesting and easy-to-use. However, this will not work unless you enter a famous blog (i.e. Kottke.org). When you try to do the same with some relatively unknown blogs (i.e. Mahmood's Den), this method will not work. In this case, you should enter the URL of the feed itself, instead of the generic blog URL, and then everything will go smoothly.
I may forgive Kinja for such a thing because they are still in Beta. But I think they should work on it to improve their product. I like Kinja because they have a clean neat beautiful design, and it is really easy to add/delete any feed. Moreover, I like the way Kinja use to show the latest post from any of your feeds on top, just like a blog.
I've been using Bloglines for couple of days now, and it looks faster than Kinja in aggregating the feeds. Something I hate about Kinja is the delay in adding new feeds. However, I prefer it over Bloglines because the latter use frames. I hate frames.
Kinja is good, but it is far from being perfect. There is much to do and work on before release of Kinja 1.0, and I think they can do it.
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Therefore, I decided to re-log in to my account at Kinja, and give it another try. I discovered that I made some mistakes when I used it for the first time few months ago. Nevertheless, Kinja was functioning properly this time.
However, I still cannot understand the technology behind Kinja. During my email conversation with Mr. Denton, he told me that Kinja could read all blogs "whether they have RSS or not." "We parse the HTML, looking for patterns in the code," he added. So, according to his email "RSS is nice, but not essential."
Kinja asks you to enter the URL in the "example.com" form. This sounds interesting and easy-to-use. However, this will not work unless you enter a famous blog (i.e. Kottke.org). When you try to do the same with some relatively unknown blogs (i.e. Mahmood's Den), this method will not work. In this case, you should enter the URL of the feed itself, instead of the generic blog URL, and then everything will go smoothly.
I may forgive Kinja for such a thing because they are still in Beta. But I think they should work on it to improve their product. I like Kinja because they have a clean neat beautiful design, and it is really easy to add/delete any feed. Moreover, I like the way Kinja use to show the latest post from any of your feeds on top, just like a blog.
I've been using Bloglines for couple of days now, and it looks faster than Kinja in aggregating the feeds. Something I hate about Kinja is the delay in adding new feeds. However, I prefer it over Bloglines because the latter use frames. I hate frames.
Kinja is good, but it is far from being perfect. There is much to do and work on before release of Kinja 1.0, and I think they can do it.
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