Feedraider: like making your own personal PopUrls page

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feedraider.png I must confess, I saw FeedRaider - Customizable RSS Aggregator in my feeds list a couple of times before I actually clicked on it to see what it was. I thought it was YAFR (yet another feed reader).

In fact, Feed Raider is actually a tool to create your own personal PopUrls-like page ... or two ... or more. Of course, this isn't a totally new idea. I've created a similar set of pages within Netvibes. That said though, there are a couple of features of Feed Raider that appeal to me - premade and css customizable page display themes and alternate feed views.

losttheme.png Feed Raider and especially it's customizable themes is pretty easy on the eye. The fact is, that when trying to cram a lot of information on a page, this matters and I've never been completely comfortable with the look and feel of Netvibes pages when displaying blocks of feed headlines.

Also, Feed Raider offers to feed views - Deck (PopUrls like display) and River, which puts the feeds into one column, sorted by recentness. I like that!

So, I think I'll give Feed Raider a try for a couple of days. If it works out, maybe I'll share my category/feed list set up for others to give a try too.

October 16, 2006 in RSS

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