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I miss Pointcast and I wish there was something like it today.


I thought it was neat at the time, but I also remember discontinuing use really quickly. I used it to watch stock market data and other stuff, but found it was more useful for me to just browse to my Datek page (this was long, long ago before Datek was acquired and eventually became TD Ameritrade) or the Motley Fool (back before the Fool started sucking and became yet another big finance media channel), and dig down into the research.


I think RSS ended up filling that niche to a point, and Google Reader was the best mechanism for consuming it.


Totally. RSS was the beginning of RSS, in my mind, and I said so in 2003: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/RememberPointcastSmellsLikeRSS...


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