The newsreader business has undergone major shifts in recent months. Flipboard has emerged as the consumer’s preferred mobile magazine, Pulse was acquired by LinkedIn for $90 million, Google Reader is shutting down, and now another early entrant, Flud, has refocused on the enterprise market. The company began quietly testing the waters about six months ago after feedback from customers hinted at… → Read More
Miami-based startup Guide today announced its seed funding round of $1 million, from investors including Sapient, The Knight Foundation and actor Omar Epps. The company is also launching the alpha version of its product today, which aims to be the next generation in online news delivery, by pairing text-to-speech technologies with online news and blog feeds to create curated, personalized video… → Read More
Feedly, as its name implies, is a service that started out as a better way for users to read their RSS feeds. But RSS never caught on in the mainstream, although it powers many of the social news-reading platforms we now use, such as Flipboard and Pulse. Today, Feedly is taking a big step toward joining the “in” crowd of magazine-style applications, with a dramatic redesign of its mobile apps for… → Read More
Retickr, a social news reader application for Mac OS X, received a big update today, as well as a new round of funding. The startup just closed its Series A of $1.5 million led by the Lamp Post Group, the investors who had previously put $150,000 into the company’s seed round.
The app, which combines RSS, social networking updates and news, is not your standard feed reader, but rather attempts… → Read More
/bugs/cg.swf I just built a little RSS reader for the Chumby. Pop over to the Chumby site to check it out or just stare at it here. Never let it be said that we will ever force people to buy small, beanbag-like devices to consume our content. → Read More
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Too busy to read the entire CG feed? Too bored? Too lonely? Repulsed by full RSS feeds? Try these two hot RSS feeds for your browsing pleasure: Video – Feed dedicated to all of our posts containing video. This includes our Video Reviews and our Content Stolen from Legitimate Sources. Hot – The hottest stories handpicked by your editorial staff. Consider this the “Staff… → Read More
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