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Fav.or.it: An RSS reader with mainstream potential

Kristen Nicole — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:00:00 -0700

FAV.OR.IT see slideshow

10 ‘Net services that will:

Succeed
Trulia | SceneCaster | CafeScribe OverlayTV | Fav.or.it | Hulu
Huddle | Kaltura | ModiFace Cognitive Code

Fail
Joost | Twitter | Zillow | Chumby eCirkit | Flock | Spock | Jobster Squidoo | Second Life

Service: Fav.or.it

What it does: A personalized feed reader.

Why it will succeed: fav.or.it feeds include comments and other feedback mechanisms that improve an otherwise mundane experience -- browsing and reading RSS feeds. Besides providing a customized news experience, fav.or.it lets readers see, follow, and leave comments, all within the fav.or.it reader tool, diminishing the need to visit multiple sites or click through to the original source.

Why it hasn't succeed yet: Fav.or.it is still in a relatively early stage of development, but a new API points to further integration with third-party services. The social capabilities, such as commenting functionality and recommendations, also bode well for fav.or.it's future.

'Net views:

Mashable: "With its current feature roadmap, fav.or.it appears to be making a play to take RSS mainstream, which, I'd argue is still a wide open opportunity."

Robert Scoble: "I could use ... Fav.or.it to comment on blogs and that it does a ton of other things that Google Reader doesn't do."

greenbrucelee: "fav.or.it ... is looking to be a pretty nice Web based platform, I think the killer feature for me is the seamless use between platforms/places."

Management: Nick Halstead, founder.

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Slideshow home: Opinion: 10 'Net services that will succeed (and 10 that will probably fail)
Ian Lamont: 10 'Net services that will succeed (and 10 that will probably fail)
Prediction: eCirkit will shut down its social networking service by Jan. 1, 2009
Prediction: Chumby Industries announces it will discontinue alarm clock line by February 1, 2009
Prediction: Cognitive Code's Pocket SILVIA technology will appear in mass-market consumer electronics by end of 2008
Prediction: Hulu will announce 200 full-length feature movies by May 15, 2008
Prediction: Overlay.TV comes out of beta on or before June 30
Prediction: CafeScribe acquired by October 2009
Prediction: SceneCaster will come out of beta by June 1, 2008
Prediction: Second Life usage will not break 40 million user hours per month by the end of 2008
Prediction: Joost will announce a Web-based viewer by November 1, 2008

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