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Aggregator inside aggregator

Aggregator inside aggregator 09/21/2004 10:57 PM
You know whenever people post screenshots of emulators, how it can be weird to see Windows running on a Mac? (Even weirder if you actually use an emulator, until you get used to it.)

Here’s a similar side effect of having embedded a browser in NetNewsWire. (Click for full-size screen shots.)



Even though it’s odd, there’s actually a point to it—we discovered that some people use multiple aggregators. One for fun stuff and one for work, that kind of thing.

If one is browser-based and the other embeds a browser, then, well, hey, you’ve got something like the above.

New Aggregator

New Aggregator 01/09/2003 01:29 PM
The horribly-named Beaver is a "FeedReader replacement" that is in the early stages of development and "very feature incomplete." Not...

Simple Aggregator 1.0

Simple Aggregator 1.0 07/11/2004 09:11 AM
A Web-based news aggregator.

Dean Aggregator

Dean Aggregator 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
Mike Muegel, a Dean supporter, has put together a very cool little tool that aggregates blogs related to the Dean campaign. It sits in your system tray and pulls in entries from a whole bunch o' sites, and lets you cycle through them one at a time. In my experience with it over the past few weeks, it's been very well-behaved, updating itself cleanly. Desktop Dean is free, of course. You could probably talk to Mike about having him do a version for some other topic you or your business cares about......

MP3Blogs Aggregator

MP3Blogs Aggregator 07/19/2004 10:11 PM
MP3Blogs Aggregator .. Mp3blogs

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"MP3Blogs Aggregator"

"MP3Blogs Aggregator" 07/19/2004 08:24 PM

Yahoo Aggregator

Yahoo Aggregator 01/07/2004 06:17 PM

Yahoo is beta testing an RSS Aggregator that integrates into the My Yahoo service, but their advertising of it has fallen flat. Because I choose the contents of a My Yahoo page, I have a sense of ownership of the page. Personalized pages tend to evoke that feeling. So imagine my surprise when I open My Yahoo today and find that there’s a new content module for RSS added to the top of the page. I wasn’t sure whether to feel excited or violated. It’s great that Yahoo is embracing RSS, but they messed with my page.

Nevertheless I tried testing it, but when trying to add feeds or search for feeds, I received a message saying that I didn’t have access. Curious to see if I’d get the same message if I tried removing the module, I hit the remove button. Now it’s gone and there doesn’t seem to be a way to add it back.

It might seem strange that I’m complaining that I can’t get something back when I didn’t want it in the first place, but it goes back to that sense of ownership. I know that content module exists, but I can’t add it to my page.

NewsGator: Beyond the Aggregator

NewsGator: Beyond the Aggregator 07/03/2004 09:23 PM

Why Did We Invest in NewsGator?: Here's a post from a venture capitalist about why he invested in NewsGator.

The misperception is that NewsGator is only an Outlook plug-in. While the most popular product from NewsGator is currently their Outlook-based aggregator, what really turned us on when we dug into NewsGator as a potential investment is NewsGator Online Services (NGOS).

Greg Reinacker's vision is much broader than simply an RSS aggregator - his goal is to provide RSS content on any device. NewsGator currently provides clients for Outlook, the Web, POP email, mobile devices (web-based and wap), and Microsoft Media Center (how cool is it to get an RSS feed on your TV?).

He makes a good point — NewsGator has really extended past Outlook. They started with that, and the Outlook plug-in is what they're most well-known for, but I just wrapped up 30 days with Newsgator Online Services (NOS), and I can tell you that they've deftly transcended the aggregator.

While working with NOS, I got the...feeling, that news and information was just out there, everywhere, and it was up to me how I wanted to receive it. They have options to push information to about any device, on any platform. I've never felt more saturated by news in my life than during those 30 days.

Information was everywhere — so much so that I stopped thinking in terms of this aggreagtor or that protocol. I was just swimming in information, and the method in which I chose to receive it was almost incidental. Petty, even.

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Another RSS Aggregator for Palms

Another RSS Aggregator for Palms 06/17/2004 12:27 AM

mNe ws

"mNews looks quite good but perhaps quite high at $19.95- 'Sports, weather, politics, business, science, health, technology... Latest world headlines were never so easy to access on your Treo as they are now with mNews! With mNews you can download and read latest news from numerous sources of your choice from around the world right on your Treo. mNews is the RSS news reader for PalmOne Treo 600 devices. RSS news feeds is an emerging channel for delivering the news, blogs and corporate communication to the end users. All major news and information providers support RSS format which mNews can download and display.' " [PDA 24/7]

A competitor to Hand/RSS, but I still think mobile Bloglines is the way to go so that your feeds are synchronized across multiple devices.

New RSS News Aggregator

New RSS News Aggregator 12/05/2003 03:14 AM

Chris Pirillo has released a new RSS news aggregator done with Macromedia's Flash. I've tried it and it looks different and works nice, that's for sure, but for now I'm sticking with my NewsGator.

Bayesian Aggregator

Bayesian Aggregator 12/02/2003 08:47 AM
In a comment, Kevin Jordan writes: 348North News is a normal aggregator in much of the way you think of it. However, it allows me to identify keywords or themes that it puts together into phrases — and then matches up the phrases with like articles. Like a cross between Google News and Daypop (but that makes it sound much more complex than it is). If you want to see an "interests" based summary for me, check out the Phrase Index. I use fairly general keywords so as not to miss out on the future items. I haven't tried...

War Coverage in Your Aggregator

War Coverage in Your Aggregator 03/20/2003 11:53 AM

Sorry for the lack of posts, but everyone in my house has been felled by colds, including me. I'm also trying to keep up with current events, as are you I'm sure. Since CNN isn't providing free, live video feeds, I'm in search of others, but Andy Rhinehart and the Spartanbarg Herald-Journal are doing their part by providing an RSS feed of war-related content from the Associated Press.

Aggregator utf-16 tests

Aggregator utf-16 tests 06/03/2004 05:16 PM
I've converted yesterday's utf-8 tests to utf-16 (technically utf-16le, complete with the approrpriate BOM).  For those that want to play along with RSS, there also are RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and RSS 2.0 + Atom versions.

Yahoo Re-aggregator

Yahoo Re-aggregator 01/23/2004 01:23 AM

After a false start earlier this month, My Yahoo now has an RSS aggregator.

When the module appeared on my Yahoo and I complained about it, I was informed by Yahoo employees that it was a bug that caused the pre-beta module to show up on some My Yahoo pages. It wasn’t an intentional marketing effort, but the buzz created by the snafu didn’t hurt Yahoo’s cause.

The module isn’t yet available on the standard list of My Yahoo modules. To add it you’ll need to go to add.my.yahoo.com/rss.

Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator

Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator 05/24/2004 01:41 AM

TV News in a Postmodern World: The Busine$$ of RSS

"Want a glimpse of tomorrow? Innovators Bill French and Harry Hayes are SmartStream Alliance™ and have a product that's so compelling that news executives of every sort will be scrambling to be first in their market with it....

RSxStream is a sophisticated and ingenious software engine that takes RSS, Atom, RDF, XML, any other sort of feed or data stream, or any other content that lives on the Internet and makes it available to the desktop via a contextual reader. End users are given a state-of-the-art reader — capable of grabbing anything from live TV to music to video-on-demand to simple RSS text feeds. If it's available via the Internet (today), it can be routed through the RSxStream engine. The end users have complete control of what sources they choose, as they would with any other RSS reader. The difference is those choices are drawn indirectly, through the RSxStream software....

What's crucial to understand with this is that whoever provides the reader to the public also owns the engine, and THAT is the business end of RSS. It means advertising can be crafted into the design of the reader and delivered based on the choices, habits and interests of the end user. It's contextual advertising nirvana. This type of business currently does not exist, but it's ideal for local media outlets. Why? Because we're in the information distribution business, and getting the reader onto the public's desktops is the key to its success. Moreover, if the local media entities don't do it, somebody else will, and they will take all those ad dollars with them." [DONATA Communications, via JD on MX]

I love the idea of providing the reader and even pre-populating it with feeds relevant to the intended audience,  but I hate the idea of some company monetizing it. I'd much rather get a grant and have libraries provide this information-centric software. We're in the "information distribution" business, too, except we're interested in people getting information without strings attached.

Aggregator i18n tests

Aggregator i18n tests 06/02/2004 06:44 PM
Here is a simple set of tests for verifying that an aggregator properly handles various combinations of international characters and character references.  The desired result is that the title of every entry should be displayed as Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn. This is not meant to be comprehensive, in particular, it focuses only on one encoding (utf-8, which is guaranteed to be supported by any conformant XML parser), and doesn't do mode base64.

Dave's Convention aggregator

Dave's Convention aggregator 07/23/2004 03:09 PM
Dave Winer's built a Convention blog iste that aggregates blogs from people attending the Convention (not just the credentialed ones). Looks great. Thanks, Dave....

Reading Canter in an aggregator.....

Reading Canter in an aggregator..... 07/28/2004 11:08 AM

... is like watching The Matrix on a Teletype machine/printer: you not only miss the entire experience, but most of the headlines picked up by the feed are uninteresting at quick glance, whereas the stories themselves usually are pretty good. Sure, better summary style might do the trick, as Jon Udell often writes about, but that would miss the point, and the impact/speed with which worthy items appear. I used to moan about the confusing (non-existing or subtle) quoting convention, but now I've told him that I don't care anymore... where would we be if Marc Canter gave up his shoot-from-the-hip style, and increasingly-rich-media blog pages?

[My Dog]

Thanks Marc.

Marc Eisenstadt is one of my favorite people. And not just because he bought me a headset and camera (which I haven't even used yet.)

I tty and keep my life as close to 'normal' people as possible - so ONE DAY I'll pull out that camera and start using Marc's stuff - but first......

BlogBridge aggregator hits 1.0

BlogBridge aggregator hits 1.0 04/12/2005 11:06 AM
BlogBridge, the aggregator I've been using for a few months in beta, has gone to 1.0. There are a few things to like about it, not least of which is that it's a free, open source project done by someone I know well and trust 100%, Pito Salas. Blogbridge is a client, but it stores your info on a server so you can use it on multiple machines. It tries to help you discover new weblogs by noting links in your feeds. You can rate your feeds and this somehow magically gets fed into a community rating system. (I'm not...

Aggregator Market Share

Aggregator Market Share 03/23/2005 08:02 PM
In reply to one of my Browser Market Share postings, Ian Brown wrote to point out that with an increasing portion of the traffic going through newsreaders, it might be interesting to do some breakdown on that. So I did. [Updated with pointers & percentages.]...

Great RSS Quotes from My Aggregator

Great RSS Quotes from My Aggregator 12/24/2004 12:58 PM

• RSS: a Shift, from What...to What?
  "He also neatly sort of answers his own question - with greater precision than I can ever muster - by saying: 'If I visit houses of content, as I seem to do on the Web, that is very different than the content as “visitor” to my house.'... What we’re seeing is the creation of personalised information hypermarkets.... Over time, you develop a rich cocktail of sources and you develop a new habit for browsing information. Some things you look at hourly, some daily, and some you deliberately save till Friday pm for a catch up. This is light years away from sitting down at the table in the morning looking at your paper, or even your paper’s website.”
   
• RSS and Blog Directories
  "Inspired by The Media Drop's list of newspaper RSS feeds, I thought I'd compile a list of RSS directories. Enjoy and spread the link."
   
• Newsmap as a Model for Smart Aggregation
  "Information overload. It’s the next big issue in publishing, and technology in general. The day you have 400 e-mails in your inbox, 900 new items in your RSS aggregator, and 8 Instant Messenger windows on your screen will come. For some people, it’s already here.... The key to our information gathering lives is all about smart aggregation. The days of media companies deciding what’s on your 'front page' are numbered. Within five years, I believe customizable newsreader technology (whether client-side like Net News Wire, or server-side like Bloglines), will be as prevalent as the web is right now."
   
• 500 down, 3061 to go
  "At the beginning of this week I had 310 feeds showing around 25,000 unread posts. I had toyed with the idea of declaring RSS bankruptcy and just starting again, but I was getting increasingly unhappy with chaotic state of my feeds and deep down I knew that hitting 'mark all posts read' would do nothing to solve the problem in the long run."

Humor Roundup from My Aggregator

Humor Roundup from My Aggregator 12/24/2004 12:58 PM

• What Famous People of the Past Would Have Googled
• Bohemian Art Show
• A Giant Step Forward for Punctuation
• Modern Advice for Parents-to-be

Book Review Aggregator

Book Review Aggregator 01/03/2005 07:33 PM
Metacritic Books. Metacritic has been covering reviews for movies, music, and games for years, but now has started aggregating books reviews, with about 150 books so far.

MSN Quietly Tests an RSS Aggregator

MSN Quietly Tests an RSS Aggregator 03/17/2005 03:59 AM
MSN quietly is experimenting with a Microsoft-developed RSS aggregator.

ANT - video bl0gging aggregator

ANT - video bl0gging aggregator 02/05/2005 09:12 PM

ANT is a coolio video blogging aggregator I saw previewed in NYC at Vloggercon a couple of weeks ago.

It's now ready for folks to beat on.

Enjoy.

Video blogging is expanding the blogosphere as we speak. And maybe - just MAYBE we can get some meta-data into these feeds!

This screen ghrab features Dylan Verdi - the world's youngest video blogger.

I met Dylan and her dad - in the middle of a snowstorm.

Anticipating the Aggregator Shakes

Anticipating the Aggregator Shakes 03/11/2003 10:45 AM

Aargh! It no longer matters if I have high-speed internet access this week at the Computers in Libraries conference because the laptop isn't back from being repaired anyway. Hopefully I can get the Stowaway keyboard working for my Clie or else I'll have to resort to - gasp - paper for my conference notes. How archaic.

So that means no blogging or news aggregator and minimal email Tuesday through Friday. I'm actually going to have to speak about RSS on Thursday without having seen any for three days!

I'm not sure what's more pathetic - me at a libraries & technology conference without internet access, the fact that none of the hotels around Dupont Circle offer high-speed internet access (let alone WiFi), or the fact that the CIL conference is held at a hotel that doesn't offer any type of high-speed access.

So if you see me at the conference and I'm twitching, it's just a symptom of withdrawal.

Browser or Aggregator? Some numbers.

Browser or Aggregator? Some numbers. 02/10/2003 12:58 AM
I got to wondering about browsers vs. aggregators coming to my blog. I'm going to assume that anyone who hits http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ is a browser and anyone who hits http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/index.rdf is an aggregator. It's simple and I have the data for...

AvantGo is the Original Aggregator

AvantGo is the Original Aggregator 02/26/2003 02:37 PM
After seeing this story today about the Anatomy of a mobile device user, a survey conducted by AvantGo, I realized...

Advice for Libraries from My Aggregator

Advice for Libraries from My Aggregator 04/29/2004 11:11 PM

PC Mag Says Death to 802.11b (Almost)
"PC Magazine rounds up several 802.11g routers, and says they're cheap enough, they're good enough: 802.11b no longer enjoys a large enough (or any) price differential for quality Wi-Fi gateways that include WPA encryption support, PC Mag says. So while you can still find 802.11b devices on the market, they recommend new gear have 802.11g built in...." [Wi-Fi Networking News]
Lesson: Make sure you buy 802.11g for your library.

Making CD-R's Last
"From Doug Kaye I learned of an interesting article on how long CD-R's will last and things you can do to increase or decrease that time. I've always just popped down to Staples and bought the cheapest disks I could find. For some of my uses (the latest Suse distro, for example) that's fine. But this article makes the point that if you're using the disk to archive important material, you need to be more careful. The article contains information on how to select good media and media that's appropriate for the drive that you'll be recording on. This may be especially important for organizations building large collections of CD-R's that they need to keep to meet regulatory or other business requirements." [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]
Lesson: If your library is using CD-Rs for backups, archiving, or preservation, pick the right ones!

Microsoft launches US news aggregator

Microsoft launches US news aggregator 07/28/2004 03:10 PM
Journalism.co.uk Jul 28 2004 6:49PM GMT

The Harry Potter News Aggregator

The Harry Potter News Aggregator 08/13/2004 09:15 AM
Has anyone else had the problem that they read the title "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" as "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Uzbekistan" ? Perhaps it's just...

ThinFeeder Java RSS / Atom Aggregator

ThinFeeder Java RSS / Atom Aggregator 08/20/2004 08:24 AM
ThinFeeder on the web!

Throw Your Amazon Wishlist in Your
Aggregator

Throw Your Amazon Wishlist in Your
Aggregator 09/20/2004 12:47 AM

Watchcow.net

"You want to keep an eye on your Amazon.com wishlist or a particular Amazon.com/de/co.uk item, want to be informed whether and how much the price has been changed, but don't have the time?

Watchcow.net to the rescue! This simple and handy service allows you to passively watch single Amazon products and entire wishlists in your newsreader, such as Bloglines (web), NetNewsWire (Mac), NewsFire (Mac) or FeedDaemon (Windows), just to name a few. It works with every newsreader/-aggregator that supports ATOM feeds. Which, incidently, means pretty much all of them."

Another great service from Carlo Zottmann!

Yahoo Bench Tests RSS Aggregator

Yahoo Bench Tests RSS Aggregator 01/16/2004 11:04 AM

Homer Library Comes Home to My
Aggregator!

Homer Library Comes Home to My
Aggregator! 09/24/2004 09:17 AM

My home library unveiled a new web site today and the home page is now a blog (powered by Blogger). Happy, happy, happy dance, happy, happy, happy dance!

Of course, my favorite part is the sidebar on the right-hand side where you'll find links to Ask a Librarian (their email and VR service), Find It Online (their database section), ListenIllinois (my statewide group purchase!), the new Homer Community web site (funded by a library the grant received - more on that in the future), and ........drum roll, please....... an RSS feed!! Happy, happy, joy, joy, happy, happy, joy, joy! Subscribed!

Of course, this will change my RSS class because I always show how I can't find my library's feed in Bloglines or Yahoo as a way to prod attendees to get their own feed. Now that will change when the feed does appear!

Oh, and one of the blog posts mentions a LibraryLookup bookmarklet for their catalog!

Did I mention I'm happy?  :-)

Aggregator HTTP tests updated

Aggregator HTTP tests updated 12/28/2003 06:47 PM

The aggregator HTTP tests have been updated. (68 words)

Note: The "dive into mark" feed you are currently subscribed to is deprecated. If your aggregator supports it, you should upgrade to my Atom feed, which includes both summaries and full content.

Charlottetown weather for your RSS news
aggregator

Charlottetown weather for your RSS news
aggregator 12/30/2003 12:09 AM
Cool. I'm checking out a RSS feed for Charlottetown weather. It's from RSSWeather.com....

Findory: Collaborative news aggregator

Findory: Collaborative news aggregator 01/19/2004 11:47 AM
Greg Linden stumbled across "The Daily Me? No, the Daily Us," an old Wired piece of mine that pointed to a disadvantage of personalized news sites: they don't build communities the way paper newspapers do. (Look, it was an interesting idea in 1995.) Here's an excerpt, chosen because of its quaint reference to that other Iraqi war: The fact that the document I'm looking at is the same for all who receive it has other important effects. It establishes a baseline of expectations about what we, as a community, are all supposed to know. If, at the height of the...

Microsoft Plans News Aggregator

Microsoft Plans News Aggregator 07/27/2004 09:14 AM

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