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RSS Feed Feed — Ultimate News Portal?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rss-in-a-hall-of-mirrors dept.

Rod Peterson writes, "I came across SiliconNews.net, a news portal that pulls RSS feeds from many of the top computer enthusiast, gaming, and nerd websites. Obviously, they've included Slashdot! They have an RSS feed of everyone else's RSS feeds, so you always have all the news."

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  1. FOTM by achacha · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is the flavor of the moment, there are a bunch of there floating around. RSS aggregators are all the rage now. I don't see why someone would want a slow site to maintain them when you can just create a folder of LiveBookmarks in Firefox and get all the aggregation you need. For more dedicated aggregation there is Thunderbird and lots of native clients with lots of features.

    I am sure there is a use for these, but this feels like the .com boom time, money put into ideas with questionable innovations and no viable way to profit. These companies then patent all the prior art around and horribly retard the innovation process of the space. Oh well, it's bound to happen, the clueless always feel their idea is new and unique and patentable.

  2. Original Signal is better by bstadil · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have a look at OriginalSignal same system but Ajaxified as you can just hover over a story to read a summary.

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  3. speaking of RSS feeds... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...it's great that Slashdot has one, and it's great that you guys started using em dashes a lot (like in the subject of this very article), but — isn't a valid RDF/RSS or XML character entity. So it shows up literally as "—" in feed readers.

    Use the numerical equivalent (—) instead, gracefully degrade it to "--", or simply include it as an unescaped multibyte character (yay UTF-8). But do something, it looks dumb.

  4. Google Tabbed Homepage by Temujin_12 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I love the new tabbed personalized homepage feature Google has added. Now, when I go to Google (which is about 12,324 times a day) I get a quick snap shot of the information I commonly go to from RSS feeds I choose. They also have lots of nice little tools/games you can drag onto your homepage as well.

    Now when I want to do what I call "the rounds" and check what's new in the world and on sites I'm interested in, I just look at the links from the various RSS feeds on one tab, middle click on ones I'm interested in, go to the next tab, and do the same. At the end, I have around 1-2 dozen tabs open and whole process only takes about 1-2 minutes and I have all the latest information on the topics I care about. This is what RSS feeds are about. Fast and intuitive access to the data you want, when you want it.

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  5. Re:A better use of RSS... by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You must have meant Rarely Seen Sites since Rarely Seen Websites is RSW not RSS

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  6. Have you seen Daily Rotation? by MadJim · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Daily Rotation is a headline site. It can also be customized.