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Pulse - newsreader - gorgeous

superflush said:
Now that I think of it, what a stupid reason for The New York Times Company to complain about this.
They were essentially complaining (on behalf of The Boston Globe, Boston.com and The New York Times) about the fact that Pulse pre-loaded their RSS feeds and used them in an unauthorized, commercial way. I suppose that the app featuring The New York Times may help Pulse sell the app (and so would the NYT's positive piece about Pulse). Having the NYT RSS feed in Pulse isn't anything that any user couldn't add in regardless. So the end result here will be that Pulse will remove these RSS feeds from being pre-loaded from Pulse ... which will likely result in less people seeing The New York Times and Boston Globe's content. What is the point of The New York Times Company doing this? They are just preventing their content from being prominently featured.
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Using the RSS feed bypasses the ads.

There's a difference between pre-seed an RSS feed and allowing users to enter the RSS URL manually after install.
 
I notice it currently doesn't pick up picture files attached to some RSS feeds (i.e. the Guardian's). Hopefully this gets sorted soon as the text-only feeds make this particular eye-candy taste a little sour. :)
 
colmaclean said:
I notice it currently doesn't pick up picture files attached to some RSS feeds (i.e. the Guardian's). Hopefully this gets sorted soon as the text-only feeds make this particular eye-candy taste a little sour. :)
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Yeah same with BBC feeds.
 
colmaclean said:
I notice it currently doesn't pick up picture files attached to some RSS feeds (i.e. the Guardian's). Hopefully this gets sorted soon as the text-only feeds make this particular eye-candy taste a little sour. :)
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Speaking of which, Mac Rumors needs to add them. Their Pulse feed looks very bland in that sea of images.
 
So Pulse is back in the App Store. Just downloaded it. Really liking it so far.



Trooperof3 said:
lol It's not like Pulse is the only RSS feed out there. NYT are a bunch of jerks. Whats next Free RSS gone from my iPhone.. maybe my firefox RSS should be taken away.
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The issue is not being an RSS reader. The issue was using The NYT feed for commercial purposes (I suppose having it pre-loaded, using it in their screenshots, etc). Their complaint also stated, "The app also frames the NYTimes.com and Boston.com websites in violation of their respective Terms of Use."

Even if they were technically right about this, I think it is counter-productive (as I stated above).

The app is back now and the NYT Home Page feed was a pre-loaded feed when I downloaded the app a few minutes ago. The framing issue is the feature that Pusle has where you can have "Web" toggled on and when you tap on a story, it will go directly to the link. See this story: http://appshopper.com/blog/2010/06/08/ny-times-gets-apple-to-remove-pulse-reader-from-app-store/
 
sracer said:
Using the RSS feed bypasses the ads.

There's a difference between pre-seed an RSS feed and allowing users to enter the RSS URL manually after install.
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Oh, I understand the difference. All I was saying is that is may actually be beneficial for the NYT to have their feeds in there by default. Also, the text of the NYT RSS feed is just a few sentences. If you go to the link (or in the case of Pulse, have it toggled to "Web" view), you still see the regular ads on the website.

I think the NYT may have dropped their complaint as the app is back in without the NYT removed as a default feed. (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/08/app-store)
 
Question about reading Twitter feeds on Pulse -- the links do not seem to work, even in "web" mode. Is this a flaw in Pulse or is it something on my end?
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Question about reading Twitter feeds on Pulse -- the links do not seem to work, even in "web" mode. Is this a flaw in Pulse or is it something on my end?
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I've also noticed Engadget video links don't work through the app, but do from a stand-alone browser.
 
colmaclean said:
I've also noticed Engadget video links don't work through the app, but do from a stand-alone browser.
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Videos that are embedded in the post or a link?

Most of their videos are through Viddler and are in flash (so you obviously can't view them), although they sometimes have YouTube videos too.
 
Does it sync with GoogleReader?

Thinking about getting it especially if it does that and removes the 20 sites cap.
 
kristiano said:
Does it sync with GoogleReader?

Thinking about getting it especially if it does that and removes the 20 sites cap.
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Yes, it does sync with Google Reader, and you can choose which of your feeds you want to sync and rearrange them.
 
New Pulse user here and so far I'm loving it!

never been a huge RSS fan, but I'm quickly becoming one. The only dissapointment is that many of the RSS feeds I use are as visually engaging as the inbuilt Pulse feeds (i.e. Engadget, Jalopnik etc).

Anyone got a list of visually engaging RSS feeds they use in Pulse?
 
Pkaras said:
New Pulse user here and so far I'm loving it!

never been a huge RSS fan, but I'm quickly becoming one. The only dissapointment is that many of the RSS feeds I use are as visually engaging as the inbuilt Pulse feeds (i.e. Engadget, Jalopnik etc).

Anyone got a list of visually engaging RSS feeds they use in Pulse?
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I use this site. When you input a RSS feed it converts them to include the full text article and any pictures and (non-flash) videos.

Here are a couple that I use...
BBC
Mac Rumors
Wired (US)
Wired (UK)

I hope this help a few people.
 
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