I built and use HeyHomepage.com daily for the same reasons. I love having a list of all kinds of websites (mostly 'dev blogs' from all you guys and gals!) which

I built and use HeyHomepage.com daily for the same reasons. I love having a list of all kinds of websites (mostly 'dev blogs' from all you guys and gals!) which in it's essence is a list of bookmarks to homepages. I throw RSS techniques against it and it becomes my replacement for social media. I call RSS therefor 'Really Social Sites'. No ads and the quality of the content is completely up to me selecting the right websites to follow. I see only one post from one feed at a time. If I want the next, I click a button labeled 'Next random post' and it gives me the latest post from yet another feed. I only get the first two lines of a new post and then read the full article on the website if I'm interested. There's something to say for paying hommage to a fellow internet user who put work in building a website... I want to read your post on your website or homepage. Expanding on this list I also published (parts of) this list as a sort of blogroll, or shared list. This shared list is viewable and clickable in the browser for regular internet users, and downloadable as an OPML file so RSS users can import the websites that I like and 'endorse'. Also expanding on this list, I built some functionality called Newspaper which automatically (instead of manually) checks some selected feeds that I deemed extra interesting. The different articles from different sources are than presented to me in a newspaper. Every time I log in there are some newspapers waiting for me. I'm always looking forward to the one called 'Cars'. The rest is mostly work stuff. ;) It goes without saying that Hey Homepage is not only an RSS reader, but that it also has functions for your own timeline of posts with accompanying RSS feed. The open web is not dead. You neglected it for too long. It misses you. Give it some love back.