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Blogging Pioneer Dave Winer Launches Outliner Web App That Saves Everything Locally
Little Outliner may appeal to people who don’t like storing their stuff in some company’s cloud.
News Byte
Insert Bad “Google Closes the Book on Reader” Pun Here
As part of its ongoing spring cleaning, Google on Wednesday announced plans to sunset eight features and services. Among them is Google Reader, a widely used RSS reader the company has been offering since 2005. Why shutter the beloved news reader? Says Google, “usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products.” Google will retire Reader on July 1 of this year.Is Apple’s Mobile RSS Reader Down for the Count?
Is RSS the floppy disk of Web content, in Apple’s eyes?
Eye to Eye
Tools for Taming the Media
Clay Shirky and John Battelle share their strategies for media consumption.
Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential Future Conflicts (Or Closer Cooperation)
There is a growing feeling that the social communications companies are on a product collision course, with a possible troubled or perhaps more attractive result.
Facebook Wants Writers and Famous People to Promote Its New Subscribe Feature
Facebook will “imminently” launch a plugin for publishers and public figures to ask their readers to subscribe on Facebook directly from their own Web sites.
Delicious Struggles Through Relaunch Under New Ownership
Here’s the problem with buying something people love: They don’t love when you change it.
Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million round at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, in a wide-ranging interview at the start-up’s Palo Alto, Calif., HQ.
When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage
A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.
Video: The Pulse Boys-to-Men Talk About Huge Growth of Visual News-Reading App
Today, BoomTown braved the floods and skippered All Things Digital‘s S.S. Minnow through a Noah-like rainstorm in Silicon Valley to visit offices of Pulse. Less than a year ago, the nifty visual news-reading app was publicly praised by Apple’s Steve Jobs for innovativeness and slapped by the New York Times for misusing its RSS feed on the same day. Dramatic, for sure, but they have made nice with the Times since then and have also raised more than $1 million in funding and grown to three million users since then.