Fever° Red hot. Well read.

18 June 2009

Your current feed reader is full of unread items. You’re hesitant to subscribe to any more feeds because you can’t keep up with your existing subs. Maybe you’ve even abandoned feeds altogether. Fever takes the temperature of your slice of the web and shows you what’s hot.

I’ve been waiting for Fever for a while now as I’m very much still in a RSS reader wilderness, and Bloglines is definitely getting worse not better. Sadly though Fever doesn’t quite look like what I’m after, although it does look beautiful – I’m not too interested in the ‘Fever’ Digg-style personal recommendation thing, and the rest of the reading experience looks like it’s not quite what I’m looking for (see the link above for my rather particular feature set I’m after).

However, I’m not 100% sure that it’s not what I’m after but I can’t tell as there’s no live demo, and there’s no way I’m going to put down $30 without having a go first. I have absolutely no problem with adopting a desktop-app style model (pay upfront and install yourself) for web software but a key part of that is being able to try it first. Can anyone who’s bought Fever tell me whether it meets the list of criteria here?

Seriously considering writing my own one at this point, but that’s probably more hassle then it’s worth…

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18 June 2009