Re[2]: [syndication] RSS aggregators for non-technical folk

[Dmitry Jemerov <yole@yole.ru>]

Hello Doug,

Friday, February 28, 2003, 5:04:29 PM, you wrote:

DR> Julian Bond wrote:

>>Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>I just wanted to make you folks aware of the new community aggregator we put
>>>up at harvard.edu.
>>>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/aggregator
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>There's a lot to be said for server-side aggregators for people who 
>>don't have the technical smarts to cope with client side. The trick I 
>>think is to do it in an environment where the usage is naturally limited 
>>by the audience. 
>>
DR> There are a couple of aggregators we have found to be "Executive 
DR> Friendly" (a term by boss came up with, as he
DR> has seen how RSS works and wants me to promote it through my 
DR> organization http://www.pwrm.com as a time-saver).  Syndirellla was 
DR> close, requiring the Microsoft .net runtime install (which is actually 
DR> pretty lightweight but requires one more step).  I can't recall the name 
DR> of the product we actually want to reccomend, some classic windows app.  

  I just wanted to notice that all of the other programs recommended
to you in this thread (Aggie, WildGrape NewsDesk, NewsGator) also
require the .NET Framework. The most common aggregators not requiring
.NET are Radio (which is much bigger than simply an aggregator),
FeedReader, Newzcrawler and the recently released Awasu.

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Best regards,
 Dmitry                            mailto:yole@yole.ru