Kinja, a first look
So many new web apps, so little time.
Kinja is a new weblog syndication web app weblog portal thought up by Meg Hourihan (Megnut, of Blogger fame) and Nick Denton (Gawker, Gizmodo, Moreover). Apparently Meg’s leaving the company at the end of this month, but her site’s down at the moment.
It was a bit creepy to find someone had already made icons for Whedonesque and prolific.org. Who are you? Where are you? Why are you reading me through a portal? Eeep. But anyway…
Kinja’s lovely interface gets all confused by people’s different rss feeds. Sometimes the title becomes the header, sometimes it’s the date. (click image to enlarge)
And it does absolutely crazy stuff with my own feed, because it picked both the quicklink feed and the main blog. (See Kinja in action live, scroll down to prolific.org posts)
Update: Matt at Kinja tells me Kinja looks at HTML first. If the HTML parse fails, it falls back on the rss feeds. There’s a little bug in the post title parsing, but a fix is in the works.
- NickDenton.org: Kinja is Live. Does a good job explaining what it is and who it’s for: “Kinja is an RSS reader for people who don’t know what RSS is, who don’t know what a reader is, for that matter, or don’t care. ”
