Lucian Marin
A personal client for App.net
Most of us don’t want to use our credit cards to pay online, some of us just can’t, others prefer PayPal, some think that the web should just be free. App.net charges up front if you want to use their web application. These two premises don’t add up.
Thanks to the App.net guys there’s a third option. You can still use the web app without creating an account. This is good for people that already have Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr accounts and don’t need yet another account to manage on a day-to-day basis.
The best part about App.net is that they provide an RSS feed for everyone’s account. You can grab the RSS from people you want to follow and subscribe in your Google Reader account. Basically you end up with a nice timeline of posts. Make sure you add all the feeds in one folder — you don’t want the gibberish talk to mess with your tech-blog subscriptions.
After all that being said, he thinks that people who proclaimed RSS dead were pretty much wrong.