Hopefully, KeepMedia will continue adding features...right now the feature set is, well, ordinary...nothing more than what sites like NYTimes.com and IHT.com offer...search is a powerful tool, but at times we overestimate its influence. Again, the mindset has to be a news stand mindset, rather than a research tool. Serendipity, discovery…as any avid magazine reader will tell you…
Here’s my wish list for KeepMedia---in keeping with my theory that an online service should do as much as it can to push its users offline…

My wish list:

-- E-mail alerts/newsletters: e-mail alerts on specific topics/category/publication/author---frequency defined by the user. Leave it up to the users to define whether they want full stories in e-mail or links to stories.

-- An AvantGo/PDA friendly version of the site, where users can load up stories/articles on their PDA for the “commute-read”.

-- RSS feeds defined by users (much like the e-mail alerts)....Amazon is doing it pretty well with its categories---think about it...convenience is the key here.

-- PDF versions of stories on the fly---this was an idea I mooted to CNET couple of years ago, but they never did take it up...developing PDF notebooks--with multiple stories--on the fly, where users choose the stories they want in the booklet, the order they want it in etc...Meredith, the publisher of magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies Home Journal, is trying it for its websites.

-- more when I think of them…