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Google Reader is used for the private consumption of public RSS feeds but this republishes content.
by coderdude 15y ago
Google Reader is used for the private consumption of public RSS feeds but this republishes content.
- sesh00 15y agoOK, what about popurls[1], alltop[2] and the like? 1. http://popurls.com/ http://popurls.com/ 2. http://alltop.com http://alltop.com
- JoelSutherland 15y agoThose don't republish content, they post headlines and links to the original sources.
- btipling 15y agoRight, the private consumption by tens of thousands of Google Reader users. Is it private because they have to login? Like what is the difference? One is a web page with all of Techcrunch's content, and the other is a web page with all of Techcrunc's content. You think I'd go to tcfast.com only when I'm at a bar? Is it because I can read the contents from more than one site?
- coderdude 15y agoWell for one thing, TechCrunch puts out an RSS feed for the purpose of using an RSS reader to see their new content. Yes, both Google Reader and this site are "web pages" (in the sense that it's HTML over port 80) but the differences I think are obvious. For one, Reader is behind a login screen and you only see what you've subsribed to. There aren't any public pages generated from the content and the individual content viewed in Reader can't be linked to or indexed. TCFast.com is basically the exact opposite. They take one site's content and republish it publicly in a way that TC would likely have never approved of. The site has linkable content and the pages are indexable. You can eliminate the indexability but that doesn't take away from the core issue that they are republishing TC content and attempting to divert TC traffic with that content.