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By: Joseph Smarr
 a reply to Plaxo? Well, well, well. An old friend suddenly turns heads.by Joseph Smarr on Aug 08, 2007 - 12:17 PM read 269 times Source: http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well... |
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@Craig, as a longtime heavy Bloglines user, my initial reaction to the idea of Pulse was the same as yours: “oh, this is something I already do with RSS”. While it’s certainly true that the “wow, i never knew all these people were doing things online” factor is greater for people that haven’t been into RSS, I’m still amazed at how many more people I’m tracking in pulse now that it’s automatically hooking people up based on my address book. Also, the range of content is much wider–photos, dugg articles, delicious links, twitter messagee, etc.–while in theory I *could* have manually found and subscribed to all this content, in practice I never would have. But the really remarkable (and frankly, unexpected) benefit of pulse is that you can see and feel all these people you care about reading and commenting on this content. When someone posts something that shows up in Pulse, you know everyone has seen it, you can see them making comments and you know who those people are. It’s a much richer and more satisfying experience. Maybe you have to try it to see what I mean. 
Thanks, js
PS: And Susan is right–this is just the beginning, and we already have a long todo list of great enhancements planned!
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