RealTime: The Newest RSS Reader on the Block
"Be the first to know."
"The feed reader your mom can understand."
Whatever tag line you want to hang on it, RealTime has launched and it’s pretty cool. It’s a web-based feed reader with an integrated browser/desktop toolbar and screensaver. My good friend Mason has been dedicating his life to this product for a while, and it shows. It’s slick and pretty and is built on some pretty darned cool technology. The toolbar is a win32 shell hosting MSHTML frames (which probably still has a few lines of code in it that I wrote way back in the day) with all the UI done in javascript so almost the entire behavior of the client app is remotely updateable. Nice!
Mad props out to Mason & his crew of crafty developers — y’all should get some sleep now. For everybody else out there, visit www.realtime.com and give it a spin.