Anothr, Skype-based RSS Reader
Anothr.com is a Skype based RSS reader. It's very simple to use. Just add anothr.com to your skype contacts, send it the urls to your desired feeds, and you are ready to go. Through out the course of the day you will be sent the text from that site's RSS feed. It's a nice service and is simple to use. I try to limit distractions though so I think that I will only use it for one or two feeds.
Anothr.com is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it is coming from China and was launched at the the Chinese Blogger Conference this past weekend in Hangzhou. It's good to see this type of grassroots conference launching products. Second, unlike many other bots it is using Skype, reflecting it's popularity in China. Anecdotally, Skype was on >80% of the computers I used while I was in China. Only MSN Messenger (default with the Windows OS) was more prominent.
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chattr.de [02.20.07 12:30 PM]
Brady over at O'Reilly Radar has a post about Anothr, a Skype-based RSS reader that was launched at the recent Chinese Blogger Conference. It IMs you through Skype whenever a feed is updated.
He also offers this observation, "unlike many other bots it is using Skype, reflecting it's popularity in China. Anecdotally, Skype was on >80% of the computers I used while I was in China. Only MSN Messenger (default with the Windows OS) was more prominent."
Design inisight: Notice how Anothr brands itself by utilizing the Web2.0 lime green and orange colors, and borrows the suffix abbreviation from Flickr. Yet their website, default in English, still uses that default-English-font-on-Chinese-OS.