RSS at Your Desk

Thursday, May 30th, 2002 at 12:34 PM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog 2 comments

My first encounter with RSS (syndication and that XML orange button) came with Radio 8.0 and it swallowed much of my free time early this year. Since then, I’ve tried AmphetaDesk and Feedreader. Neither worked as well as Radio.

Jon Udell writes about the aforementioned aggregators plus a few more in Personal RSS Aggregators and mentions Cory and Jenny.

Having a personal RSS aggregator saves you the trouble of jumping from CNN to ABC to [other fave online news information site] for news updates. All the updates come to you in one shot. See those blue RSS icons? Those orange XML icons? Grab the link from those icons and feed it to the RSS reader to start retrieving updates from the site. It’s that simple. Refreshing and running the application is the clunky part with the applications that I’ve tested.

Expect more personal aggregators to emerge and they’ll be more user-friendly as concept matures. [Link Webreference]

Hungry for more feeds? News Is Free has a ton of ‘em. It even has a recently added resources page and it can be syndicated, too.

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2 comments

  • Posted by wari on May 30th, 2002, 10:21 PM

    I used to use Radio as my aggregator, until version 8 comes along, and I have to pay to use it, I didn’t feel that it’s worth to pay for it when I just need an aggregator.

    In the end, I made one myself with perl, not as friendly as Radio, even installing it is a pain (well, it’s just for me to use), but I got it the way I wanted :) Now, if only Chris Pirillo made his RSS feed less bloated.

  • Posted by Christine on May 30th, 2002, 11:45 PM

    Personally, I’ve been really happy with the KlipFolio, although that’s a little bit different then the typical aggregator. I’ve also grabbed a free one that I found through NewsIsFree.com, but I haven’t had time to play with it yet.

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