So my buddy Mark's new venture, called Kinja launched today. Well, let me go back a bit. It's not his sole venture, obviously there were a lot of other people involved in this process. I'm sure Mark didn't do much more than keep the corporate porn archives up-to-date, and perhaps find new ways to look like he was being productive, but I digress.

Kinja is basically just an online RSS agregator, but it displays each post from the sites you subscribe to in a web log type format, which to me is actually pretty nice. I hate having to have NetNewsWire open here at work all the time to check sites, and then go home and it doesn't know I already read the updates of the day at work. Really, Kinja reminds me of Slashdot minus the commentary. It even has little icons for each site I'm subscribed to next to each post. It's definitely in beta though (even says so on their site). There's a few things they need to fix, but so far it's pretty neat. You can even share out what you're reading to the public if you want. Here's mine.

I had been seeing stuff about Kinja on Mark's site off and on, but had no idea what it was. I guess I was just out of the loop. Of course maybe if I would have went to New York last year I would have heard about it. Then again, I didn't even know everyone went to New York! How out of the smegging loop am I? I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone sometimes, totally missing out on everyone's life. Well, it is April Fool's. It's a surreal day the way it is. Guess I can't expect much.