14 Other Ways to Use RSS Feeds
From site Make Use Of, a list of 14 ways to use RSS feeds, other than the usual reading it in a feed reader. An interesting list of ideas, worth browsing.
Undeniably RSS is one of the best things that has happened to the web after email. Not only has it made browsing a lot more productive, convenient, fun … you name it, but it has also introduced a number of new ways to interact with content that we could never have imagined before. While you’re most probably already familiar with the idea of RSS feeds and Feedreader (No? See this video) , there are several other ways you can make use of feeds.
14 “OTHER” Ways to Use RSS Feeds | MakeUseOf.com
35 Styles of RSS Icons
RSS Icons are no longer restricted to the standard issue. Designers have added their own touch to them and shared them on their sites. Design site, Design Bliss offers up a nice round-up list of 35 different RSS Icon styles available around the web.
Over 35 Different Styles of RSS Icons.
The Ultimate RSS Toolbox
The Ultimate RSS Toolbox plus 120 RSS Resources is a great round-up of all things RSS, from RSS Readers (online, offline, mobile, cross-platform etc) to Plugins and Validators and more.
20 Free RSS Readers Reviewed
20 Free RSS Readers Reviewed. With a heavy emphasis on cross-platform and/or open source, here are 20 (albeit somewhat brief) reviews of the free RSS readers available. Links to download, screenshots and system requirements are included with every review.
A really well-done look at the pros and cons of some of the most popular, free RSS readers.
LeapTag: newsreader and content discover tool
Leaptag is a news reader and content discovery tool that "learns what you like and enables you to find news, blogs, books and more."
LeapTag works in your browser toolbar and once installed, you simply start tagging things that interest you as you surf the web and LeapTag will learn from your interests and present more content for you as well.
LeapTag is currently in public beta.
BlogRovr: your blogs delivered
BlogRovr: your blogs, delivered. Download BlogRovr's browser plug-in and then tell Rovr what blogs you like. While you browse, Rovr will show you posts about the page you're on via a tray that slides in briefly to show summaries of the posts it finds.
Feedable: another new online feed reader option
Feedable (beta) has just arrived on the RSS reader scene, billing itself as an easy and fun way to discover, collect and mash up RSS feeds.
With Feedable, you can quickly explore relevant feeds, track feeds in real time, and then drag and drop feeds into playlists. While other RSS feed readers expect you to wade through flat lists of news headlines, Feedable is organized around what really matters: Stories.
Feedable pairs a web-based RSS feed reader with a real-time meme tracker, so the freshest, hottest feeds and stories always rise to the top. Whether you are interested in presidential campaigns, polar bears, Britney Spears, or a rival in your industry, Feedable is a remarkably efficient way to keep tabs on any corner of the blogosphere.
Given the dominance of RSS readers such as Bloglines and Google Reader (and others) it's a tough RSS market for newcomers but for anyone still looking for their "perfect" RSS solution, Feedable is definitely worth a look.
FeedRinse: Filter your RSS Feeds
Filter RSS feeds with Feed Rinse "is an easy to use tool that lets you automatically filter out syndicated content that you aren't interested in. It's like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions."
So how does it work? Let's say you subscribe to a bunch of feeds but you really are only interested in posts about CSS. You can run your entire feed list through opml-supported Feed Rinse, set your keyword search to CSS and get a feed that only includes posts about CSS. FeedRinse supports filtering by keywords, author or tag.
FeedRinse also includes a handy bookmarklet for drag and drop feed addition to your filtered feeds.
For anyone wrangling with a bunch of feeds but looking for only specific information, FeedRinse is a great way to get your feeds focused.
FeedBlendr: a delicious feed smoothie
If you've been intrigued by Yahoo Pipes but felt it was a bit too complicated, consider having a look at FeedBlendr - blending RSS, Atom and RDF feeds into a single river of news!. Blending a variety of feeds in to one is as simple as entering the urls.
A nice feature of FeedBlendr is the number of ways you can use the blended feed. You can subscribe to it in the normal way, view it as a web page in your browser or widgetize it to view it elsewhere.
Be sure to read the "Tips" page for some really creative ways to use FeedBlendr.
Turn any web page into an rss feed in a second!
There is nothing more disappointing that finding a really great website and then discovering it doesn't have an RSS Feed. Times have changed and a lot of people just aren't in the habit of manually checking a web site by actually visiting it on a regular basis. It's all about the feeds!
yoktu.com :: feedmaker // turn any web page into an rss feed in a second! and it does a fairly decent job of it. I checked a couple of sites that I knew didn't have a feed and while one of them returned nothing (not sure what that's about), most returned a resulting RSS feed that was quite acceptable.
Worth a look to solve any missing RSS problems.
Use Yahoo Pipes to create a site badge for any RSS feed
Badger : Badge Any RSS Feed With Yahoo! Pipes - Add a badge that displays headlines from any RSS feed to your site using just Yahoo Pipes and 26 lines of code added to your site.
This article show you how and since he's already made the Pipe, you just need to clone it and add the supplied code, changing only one line in the code to indicate the feed you want in your badge.
Free Glass RSS Icons
Free Glass RSS Icons - in 8 different colors, in regular or reflected look. The 10MB download also includes AI and EPS format files for customized colors, as well as PNG and JPG versions of the icons. Icon sizes are available from 12x12 through 128x128.
Nicely done! Thanks for sharing.
RSS Cookbook: 10 Advanced RSS Tricks
The RSS cookbook - 10 advanced RSS tricks - details some things to dow with RSS feeds that you might not have thought of. An interesting read with some great ideas for getting the most from RSS.
Feedraider: like making your own personal PopUrls page
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.
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.
Add Your Logo to your Feeds
Add a Logo to your Feed - Snook.ca - Snook.ca - a how-to add your logo to Atom and RSS feeds.
Use RSS and BitTorrent to download TV Shows
How to use RSS & BitTorrent to download TV shows at Torrentfreak - a how-to.
Grab an OSX Skin for Bloglines
If you're anOSX users that has ever wished that Bloglines didn't look so windows-ish, head on over to hicksdesign and grab yourself his OS X skin for Bloglines. Itch sratched.
Explain RSS the Oprah Way
If you've ever tried to explain RSS to someone, you know how hard it can be! How to Explain RSS the Oprah Way is probably the best explanation I've seen yet and it's a worthy bookmark to share with anyone who is RSS curious but non tech savvy.
OPML Icon Project
OPML Icon Project is an effort to create a standard button for OPML, similar to the RSS standard button.
If you post your OPML on your site, you might want to consider adopting this new icon. (What is OPML?)
Feed Button Cleanup
FeedButton Beta. Uncluttering Blogs & simplifying RSS Feeds. - a nice way to clean up and simplify feeder subscription, although in the interest of maintaining the standard, I wouldn't do away with the basic "feed icon" (the orange square), just the rest of the multitude of buttons.
Manage Feeds with Firefox Live Bookmarks
Manage Your Feeds With Firefox - walks through how to set up live bookmarks to manage RSS Feeds with Firefox.
RSS Specifications serves up a lot of RSS info
RSS Specifications site, serves up a ton of RSS info, such as this page, which lists a lot of tools and sites to Display RSS Feeds.
Check the sidebar for more, including a big list of places to submit rss feeds. A good site, despite the fact their RSS graphics are outdated ;)
Happy Fish RSS Reader and Podcast Client
HappyFish is a downloadable (run from your own computer) RSS reader program and podcast client.
Happy Fish seems to be focused on providing an rss program especially for dealing with podcasts and audio/video files delivered through rss (although, it certainly can function well as simply an rss reader as well.)
Features of Happy Fish include a lot of ways to help download, manage, transfer (to portable devices) and organize files.
Feed Icons standardized and updated
Seems the Mozilla FOundation has recently posted usage guidelines for the feed icon, crowning the 28x28 and the 14x14 feed icon as being the canonical (standard) icon sizes. The Feed Icons site has updated accordingly and is now offering both sizes in their download package.
Feed Icons - Home of the standard web feed icon
Expanded RSS Feed Icon
On the New York Times website, they have been using an expanded, two-part feed icon, containing the standard icon, as well as wording (in their case "FEED").
Not only is it a good look button, it is clearly more leading, especially for sites that may be frequented by the less tech-savvy.
The icon template is available for download as a psd file at
Subtraction: Feeding the Hand That Fed Me, and through the psd, the wording and other file formatting is customizable.
RSS Feed to Javascript
So What is "Feed to JavaScript"? will convert any RSS Feed into a javascript snippet that you can place on your website to display the feed.
List of dozens of web based RSS readers with notes
Web Based RSS Readers is an impressive list of web based RSS readers, definitely worth a look if you're looking for a new one or even just to see the options currently out there, since they seem to sprout new ones daily!
Since it's absent from the list and is my personal choice for a web-based RSS reader, a plug for Newsgator.
Newshutch
Newshutch - new and good looking ajax RSS Reader. Not feature heavy but apparently efficient and quick.
Nativetext
Nativetext - translates your RSS feed into any language. I wonder how good the translation really is?
RSS Feed to Image
RSS2GIF RSS2JPG RSS2PNG beta - Transform your RSS-Feed into an image is a neat little tool. Personally, I'd use it for a personal portal page or something like that.
RSS Micro
RSSMicro Search - RSS Feed Search Engine - is this new? Regardless, another tool for searching out feeds.
FeedXs
FeedXs is an interesting concept. Skip the blog, just create a feed! Hmmmm. I see possibilities here.
Ponyfish
Ponyfish RSS Feed Builder - service to build an RSS feed for sites that don't offer one. A handy service but in an ideal world, everyone would have a feed, wouldn't they?!
Directory of RSS Readers
RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory - including hosted web services, self-hosted solutions and desktop software and more. A really bit and comprehensive list, worth a visit.
RSS Mad
home | RSS MAD - cause you can never really have too many feeds! RSS MAD is part rss directory, part rss search engine/ part rss reader and totally quite a nice resource, actually.
Ten RSS Hacks
Micro Persuasion: Ten RSS Hacks - some great ideas for leveraging the power of RSS.
Gregarius
Gregarius - A Free, Web-based Feed Aggregator - web-based, so you can read your feeds anywhere. Install it on your own server. Reads RSS/RDF/Atom. Features AJAX powered item tagging, full-text search, opml import. Gregarius is free, open-source and has some useful plugins for added functionality and themes to change the look.
I'm going to give it a try. I'm a longtime Bloglines user but have been looking for a full-featured solution I can host myself.
MyStack
MyStack -- Build your stacks here... "MyStack.com lets you create "Stacks". A stack is a list of links, like a blogroll, and can be inserted into a weblog or webpage.
Unlike ordinary blogrolls, the list of links in a Stack changes. When you create a stack, you tell us what items you want us to stack for you. When the PubSub system finds new items that match your request, your Stack is immediately updated." [via Anil's Dashes]
reBlog
reBlog.org - "A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select their favorite posts. These posts are automatically published to a Moveable Type weblog."
Quick sub
quickSub - intelligent XML buttons! [via Cogworks]
The Feedster Builder
Create an RSS Feed with just a few clicks. Feedster :: RSS Search Engine
Feedroll
Feedroll...freshly rolled news feeds for your site - pick a feed (one of their's or your own), customize it to match your site and then copy and paste the javascript code into your site.
[via Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
Posting to MovableType from FeedDemon
Nick Bradbury: Posting to MovableType from FeedDemon
Added: And now, also from TypePad.
Added later: And thanks Mark for adding his hack to post to WordPress from FeedDemon.
RSS Weather
RSSWeather.com - cool. Well, 14° C anyway ;) (Canadian and other International users use the menu at the top right to get local options.)
[via Lockergnome RSS Resources]
SharpReader RSS Aggregator
I'm currently test-driving SharpReader RSS Aggregator and so far, it's great! While on the site, I discovered some instructions for creating categorized RSS feeds using Movable Type as well.
Syndirella
I stumbled upon a link to Syndirella in my web travels and it looks very interesting. It's a new desktop RSS feed reader (similar to Amphetadesk) - only according to Dive Into Mark, better.
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