Sunday, February 18, 2007

internet - Anothr.com: not yet there

The other day I promised Isaac Mao to give Anothr.com a spin, one of the companies he is involved in. It is one of the technologies developed in China that could have more possibilities and have recently started their English language service.
Anothr delivers your RSS-feeds to your Skype interface. As long as you have a Skype-account you do not need to register or even download software. It works all pretty simple. That is the good news.
I did put a selection of my 200+ feeds in the services and that seemed to work well. Only, the promised chats to deliver the feeds to my Skype interface only showed up every other day, when I would activate the chat myself. This might be a problem with Skype - I'm having more problems with that service in the past few weeks - but it does not help to encourage people to use anothr. Further, when you click on one of the feeds to download a website, it activates a downloading process at all the IE7-windows I have open at that stage. That is still a bug that has to be dealt with.
When I'm sitting behind my computer and have both my Google Reader as RSS-reader and the Skype interface on, I do prefer the Google Reader, because it is easier to manipulate. What Anothr could do is deliver a selections of my most important feeds, not all 200+, when I'm on the road. But then I first have to buy a new mobile phone that can include the Skype-interface.

Update: Suddenly the chat come on rolling in. Maybe it was because earlier I have been operating in the 'invisible' mode and now from the 'online' mode. Still, should not make a difference and I might go in the stealth mode again when things are back to normal: makes life so much easier.

1 comment:

Stan Chu said...

pretty cool! Maybe, try Anothr Me to manage it easily.