Doug Ransom <doug.ransom@alumni.uvic.ca> wrote:
There are a couple of aggregators we have found to be "Executive
Friendly" (a term by boss came up with, as he
has seen how RSS works and wants me to promote it through my
organization http://www.pwrm.com as a time-saver). Syndirellla was
close, requiring the Microsoft .net runtime install (which is actually
pretty lightweight but requires one more step). I can't recall the name
of the product we actually want to reccomend, some classic windows app.
Aggie?
I think the problem is not necessarily installing or running the app,
it's adding the URLs of the RSS. We've got the coffee cup which assumes
localhost. There's Auto-discovery. And then there's the usual game of
hunt the RSS because the site produces it but they don't tell you
anywhere what the URL is. I guess we've all gone to a site that looks
like it's running Nuke or something like it and tried /backend.php,
/backend.rdf, /index.rdf, /articles.rdf and so on.
There's gotta be a better way to do this. A bookmarklet that's auto
added to your default browser? A bit of install/setup code that sets the
registry settings so that the document type launches the aggregator?
Similar but which adds an entry to your right click menu "Add to RSS
reader".
Hmm. I can feel a lazyweb ping coming on.