Comments on: Contest – 5 Free Copies of PimpMyNews To Win

By: PatrickJ

PatrickJ — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:49:22 +0000

cleveland – thanks for the very kind words!

By: cleveland

cleveland — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:36:16 +0000

Of course it’s a given PJ, I’ve been up for hours looking at all the feeds I’ll be listening to on PMN if chosen! PMN is such a great app and the best of its kind! Keep up the great work PMN Team and you too PJ! 🙂

By: JustClem

JustClem — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:36:30 +0000

Sounds interesting. I would use the program to listen to lots of tech feeds, including JAIB and What’s On iPhone. I also read a lot of political feeds, so I would use it to listen to those on my daily commute.

By: JohnAtkinson

JohnAtkinson — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:29:17 +0000

@Dunker – Glad you like PimpMyNews!

Re: feed selection, when you first set up your playlist on the iPhone app, users only see a fraction of the feeds available (we wanted to keep it simple for users during intial set up)

If you login to our full site on your Mac or PC at http://PimpMyNews.com , you’ll see that we have over 1,300 of the web’s top news and blogs from 59 different categories – there’s a pretty equal balance there (personally, we’re not left wingers;).

Unfortunately, Hotair only has a “partial text” feed, which doesn’t work well on our audio-based service.

We’re adding more feeds everyday. Thanks for the great feedback.

John

By: Dunker007

Dunker007 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:07:15 +0000

I just downloaded PimpMyNews for iphone and I love the interface, the concept is amazing and it actually works. Most of these things cant read and are hard to understand, but the speech is nice and clear on this app.

The only thing that I notice is the feed selection is 90% left wing. Add some more center and right wing stuff to balance it out. If you are seriously putting up the Daily Kos what have you got from the other side? I might suggest Hotair.com, they have a number of feeds to choose from, and they are now farther to the right that Kos is to the left. and how about some Foxnews feeds? I see there ate a bunch from Msnbc and CNN…

But like I said, great product! Remember, more content = more customers = more money. And if you dont like profits, I doubt you would be designing and selling programs.

Good Luck, I’ll watch for some additions.

-Chris

By: PatrickJ

PatrickJ — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:55:57 +0000

@ slumdawg, lordhong, cleveland, hseplow – all of you guys are listening to JAiB as well right? Just goes without saying eh??? 🙂

We’re under Technology > Apple in case ya need us …

By: slumdawg

slumdawg — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:52:16 +0000

I am so intrigued to see how well this will work. I will use PimpMyNews (great name) to listen to macrumors, appleinsider, and all of the mac news sites I read every day.

By: JohnAtkinson

JohnAtkinson — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:55:53 +0000

@hseplow , @cleveland & @lordhong – Good feedback.

I use multitask a lot while listening to my blogs – while putting up Xmas lights, shoveling snow and cutting the grass. (I also pop in my earbuds in bed and fall asleep to it a lot;)

Anyone else have “out of the ordinary” ways you’ll use it?

John
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Co-founder, PimpMyNews

By: lordhong

lordhong — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:30:51 +0000

I’d like to see NPR and CNN on PMN 🙂

By: cleveland

cleveland — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:36:36 +0000

I’ll use PimpMyNews for the latest stories from NBC and CNN that I usually never have a chance to get to until lunch!

By: hseplow

hseplow — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:15:00 +0000

I’m going to use PMN to listen to a bunch of different news sources on the drive to work.