8 Responses to “MacSurfer update: grand old dame gets a facelift”  

1. 1 Chuck on Sep 13th, 2007 said:

   John,
   What website do I visit first thing every morning? Macsurfer.com!

   Couldn’t agree more with your article. Thanks.

2. 2 MiGrant on Sep 13th, 2007 said:

   And *finally* RSS feeds!
   Big but…
   It’s not entirely clear from the subscription page, but it doesn’t look like there’s going to be a free option beyond three days, and even that will require registration. No thanks, if that turns out to be the case, I’d rather just take 15 minutes and subscribe to the feeds from the original sites they get their content from anyway.

3. 3 John Koetsier on Sep 13th, 2007 said:

   Ahh … I didn’t see RSS feeds, but now I see that it’s under the subscription plans.

   Personally, I think they’re going about monetizing MacSurfer totally the wrong way. Make it a social site, make it a destination, make it a place where Apple fans hang out … and the valuation will come.

4. 4 nyc on Sep 13th, 2007 said:

   $30 a year is a lot of change for a gatekeeper site. I love MacSurfer, but I’m not going to pay them that kind of money. I might have paid $15 a year for the convenience. As it is, or soon will be, I too shall bookmark Mac sites myself.

5. 5 John Stansbury on Sep 13th, 2007 said:

   I dunno about all that “social networking” stuff. I like my web pages like I like my women, static and without a great deal of CSS additions to increase the DIV counts with social network icons and subscribe fields and Technorati this and comment that all over the place.

   Okay, that didn’t make sense at all, but you get the picture. Sort of. Maybe.

   The point is, while MacSurfer was the best thing for Web 0.9.6, it’s sort of past its usefulness with the onset of things like Google Reader, where you have something like MacSurfer, but custom-built for any user.

6. 6 Kevin on Sep 13th, 2007 said:

   I wish they’d chance to a sans-serif font.
   That’s my biggest and only wish for the site.

7. 7 Jim on Sep 13th, 2007 said:

   Puhleeze, someone get MacSurfer a graphic designer.

   I like MacSurfer and use it, but it’s butt-ugly. The beta, while it has some better features and is organized a bit better still remains butt-ugly. Better graphics would likely equal enhanced usability.

8. 8 Frenchez on Sep 15th, 2007 said:

   not likely to happen

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