Everyday we’re seeing news from Mashable and The Next Web about a new entrant, each of which tries to add more value than those preceding it.
I try every one I come across – wanting to keep up with other people’s ideas and maybe find the answer to my problem, saving time whilst staying in touch. In another post I refer to Seth Godin’s post about apples and what I learnt from it. But this particular stream relates to my own experience. And, not surprisingly, it backs up what Seth said. I just want stuff that “does” and stays out of my way.
Of all the software I’ve tried, three services stand head and shoulders above the rest:
* In third place comes Posterous. Everything about this software works beautifully as a way of capturing content and sharing it.
* In second place comes Evernote. The desk top client is almost ideal for just capturing stuff. The iPhone version lets me take it with me, and the web client lets me share it with others.
* In first place comes Google Reader. I use just about all of Google’s software, and never really like any of it. On balance it’s better than the alternatives. The exception is Reader. It’s functional, it’s clean, it’s light (even working over a regular GPRS line), it works everywhere I go. Whichever feed aggregation service I try, nothing ever comes close to Reader.
Am I surprised? No I’m not, because the very basis of our strategy for Front Office Box is it has to make complex stuff simple, and stay out of the way.
And I didn’t include Front Office Box in the list because that would seem a shameless self promotion. It does a different job but, at what it does, it’s every bit as good as reader.
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