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October 23rd, 2006

CNET Reviews RSS Readers

CNet has reviewed some of the most populair RSS readers: Bloglines, Rojo, Google Reader, FeedDemon and Newsgator Inbox 2.6 for Outlook. Like Steve writes, the most useful part of the review is a matrix that compares each on their blogging, mobile and language capabilities. Overall winner is Newsgator’s FeedDemon, Bloglines ends second.
Tags: bloglines, feeddemon, feedreader, […]

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October 1st, 2006

Scoop: Touchstone does APML

Tomorrow the creators of Touchstone will announce a new initiative to implement a “Attention Profiling Mark-up Language” or APML. This new standard should allow users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows them to export their reading lists from Feed Readers. The idea is to […]

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October 1st, 2006

News Snacks: personal feedreader

News Snacks (from SpotBack) organizes all your feeds in one place. We’ve seen more of these feedreaders/river of news stuff, but this one looks better. You can create your own page of favorite news, just add feeds manually, import them from OPML, or use sources from Spotback Personal News. You can choose from the pre-compiled […]

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August 1st, 2006

Wizag: the next attention-service

The last months we’ve seen myFeedz, Touchstone and Attensa trying to solve Information Overload. The keyword with these services is Attention and next in line is Wizag. Wizag is an online feedreader that incorporates attention data and semantic analysis in regards to both your feeds and the larger community of Wizag users (Digg stylee). Like […]

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July 24th, 2006

The Humanized RSS Reader

The Humanized Reader is a “River of News”-style RSS aggregator that looks like a blog. Great idea and it sure looks good! Like Steve Rubel writes: It’s intuitive.
Tags: feedreader, river-of-news, RSSShare This

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July 13th, 2006

Yahoo clustered RSS reader

Yahoo! Research seems to have launched an experimental topic clustered RSS reader that presents a collection of feeds in relevant groups similar to the way Google News groups stories. Bad news is the reader needs the Yahoo Widget Engine?!? Why is that? I don’t want to install any stuff, I want it anyplace anytime, online! […]

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July 13th, 2006

NY Times RSS Service Beta Test

Betanews.com is reporting that The New York Times is testing a new site which is called “My Times”. This service should be some sort of personal news page from a variety of RSS feeds.
My Times users can add feeds from the New York Times itself, as well as a number of third party blogs and […]

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June 28th, 2006

myFeedz beta

Today I got an invitation to the private beta for myFeedz.com. myFeedz should be a social newspaper and find what’s important from the sea of information out there and shows you what you need to read. It learns from what you like and helps you keep up with your interests.
I signed up and had […]

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June 11th, 2006

Rich RSS Readers comparison

Read/WriteWeb has a good comparison of some webbased and desktop RSS readers, with Best of Breed picks for each category. Be sure to also check out the comments, which are full of info about other interesting feedreaders.
Tags: feedreader, RSS, toolsShare This

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May 26th, 2006

Reddit feedreader

Just found another feedreader which may be interesting: feeds.reddit.com. Reddit is a social service for what’s new and popular on the web (as you might know). Now they are testing this new online feedreader that keeps track of what you’ve read and haven’t read. Just like on reddit, you can vote on items you like. […]

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