magazine: Introducing the Microcontent Client
link A two-year-old article on microcontent clients: programs that integrate reading, searching, sharing, and publishing all kinds of content. Looks very interesting and might offer some perspective...
View Articleglassdog: "What's Wrong With: Feed Readers"
link A pretty great rant about the sorry state of aggregators. I mostly agree, and am amused by the tone of the writing. But unless you're some anal-retentive Asperger's Syndrome poster child, you're...
View ArticleRasterWeb! Aggregator Ideas
link A great list of ideas for aggregator features. I think a lot of them can be done better with aggregator/blog authoring software integration.
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Aggregator (mostly) down
link Due to some technical problems, I have stopped automatic feed updates. I now run the feed updates about once a day so I can keep an eye on how they go. Obviously, this makes the aggreagator a lot...
View ArticleAggregator vs. Aggregator
There are two conflicting designs for RSS aggregators. On one hand are email-style three-pane readers, typically found in desktop aggregators such as SharpReader, RSS Bandit, and others. On the other...
View ArticleOmea: JetBrains, I bow before thee
link While reading a somewhat interesting post about how the Google Desktop Search works, I saw a very curt comment: Why not replace Google Desktop with Intellij Omea Why not? Well, Google Desktop...
View ArticleBotcast Network
link Ted Gilchrist makes podcasts using synthesized robot voices. It's… well… interesting. See also RS3, a tool that combines RSS aggregation, automatic text summarization, and speech synthesis.
View ArticleRe: Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines
link Bloglines has a pretty mild level of lock-in, it's true. Thanks to export OPML, it's fairly easy to take your data to another aggregator. Even this hassle, however, is not negligible. If Bloglines...
View Articlepc4media: From Bookmarks to Blog Posts to Search
link Pete finally realizes that blogs can form a basis for personalized web search. In other news from Pete, Gmail is adding an aggregator, Feedmesh still seems like a good idea that is only alive...
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