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

[Doug Ransom <doug.ransom@alumni.uvic.ca>]

Feedreader is the one under most serious consideration for 
reccommendation because my boss tried it on someones reccomendation and 
met his needs.  We aren't religious about this product though, and we 
have no opinion on Radio, Newzcrawler and the recently released Awasu.

I tried NewsGator today just long enough to see if it worked.  It did 
and its pretty easy to use on the surface. I think combing the mail 
reader and RSS reader with outlook (or mozilla or any other mail client 
for that matter) is a valid approach. I think I will see if anyone has 
an NTTP reader for outlook now too. 

Here is a thought.  How about an RSS->IMAP filter?  RSS Items show up as 
items in an IMAP folder, so you can use any mail reader you want with 
your email provider and have a common interface to email, nntp, and rss 
headlines?  Or RSS->NNTP on a local NNTP server?  Or maybe its just 
better to run something like aggie in the background and have a web 
interface? Hmm. I just can't decide.


Dmitry Jemerov wrote:

> Hello Doug,
>
> Friday, February 28, 2003, 5:04:29 PM, you wrote:
>
> DR> Julian Bond wrote:
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> > > 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.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Dmitry                            mailto:yole@yole.ru
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