Reading your post, it stuck me that being able to follow someone else's RSS feed would actually be very useful. I imagine a scenario where someone provides a "l

Reading your post, it stuck me that being able to follow someone else's RSS feed would actually be very useful. I imagine a scenario where someone provides a "linux-news" channel which is basically a meta-RSS feed filled with interesting Linux articles from around the web. There could even be a "hacker-news" channel where popular stories on HN are listed. After digging around the site, there are a couple of things I noticed: no channel search (not really necessary yet) and the design of the "channels" themselves is not very appealing. I'm imagining a more Twitter-esque design with some kind of box around each entry in a channel with the metadata displayed (retweets and that kind of thing) in a minimal fashion near the border of each. I'd focus on building, first and foremost, a beautiful RSS reader that emphasizes content and then afterwards add a minimal "social features" framework. Don't worry about features, just do a couple things and do them right.