RSS readers seem like such a good idea, but they&#x27;ve hardly caught on outside of tech groups. They weren&#x27;t intuitive enough for most people to use, and we didn&#x27;t want another interface that we had to check. We also didn&#x27;t want it to fill up our inboxes with notifications when we didn&#x27;t have time to read.<p>IMO, that&#x27;s why Facebook continues to work well. You see updates from the people and the sites you want, and it&#x27;s not at all overwhelming. There&#x27;s no backlog of notifications to stress you out.<p>Done right, I think browser notifications could be the solution we&#x27;re looking for. I look forward to seeing different implementations. There are already plugins for major CMSs.