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Could our feed readers be morphed into next-gen information managers?

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader

Oct 24, 2009

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One of the most common laments we hear these days of information glut is that email is broken. Every time we turn around someone is trying to sell some new way for us to get a handle on our email. Either by proclaiming it will be replaced or by trying to sell us some book on how to manage it email is on just about everyone’s shit list.

Well I’d like to go one better and suggest that the way we deal with our information flows is broken. Hell it’s worse than broken – it’s severely screwed. From email to Twitter with stops at Facebook and IM in between our daily influx of information that we need to handle is growing by leaps and bounds.

With this in mind it was interesting to read over at GigaOM today about a new project from Mozilla Labs called Raindrop. It seems that their philosophy behind the project is to give us a way to handle our constantly increasing flow of information. As Sebastian Rupley at GigaOM writes

In its current incarnation, Raindrop lets you sort and repackage views of messaging threads from various sources, including mail, Twitter and RSS,

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