Tag: AGGREGATOR

Yahoo! has purchased news/blog aggregation site BuzzTracker for a reported $5 million dollars. The move kind of makes sense. Yahoo! News can expand by utilizing the technology of a site that already does a good job of tracking news from multiple sources across the internet. But here's the funny part. We haven't used BuzzTracker in a while, so we went ahead and typed "Yahoo" and "BuzzTracker" ...

Omnidrive is an online storage service offering 1GB of free space that can be accessed from a Windows app or web interface (Linux and mobile clients are in the works). The system allows users to store photos and files from their desktop similiar to a regular OS, and choose to share their files or keep them private. If you find yourself always transferring files back and forth from device to device ...

Do you like news? Enough to have an online RSS aggregator and reader? With a community based approach to news content delivery? A new service called NEooWS is just that. NEooWS is taking a community approach to news and content delivery by building communities that discuss daily stories, allowing for the ability to provide different unique perspectives. It's a great spot to get the latest news ...

Anothr is a neat idea, although I'm not sure how useful most people will find it. It's a bot that you add to your Skype contacts and then send the RSS feeds you read. When one of your subscriptions updates, the bot send you a message with the feed content. I've used a number of similar bots over the years with AIM, ICQ, and, way back when, IRC, but this is the first one I've seen for Skype. My gut ...

Earlier today, NewsGator announced a new addition to its suite of RSS aggregator software. NewsGator Go! is designed for portable devices running Windows Mobile. The software features full synchronization with NewsGator Online and all of the NewsGator desktop clients, and caches its data locally so you don't have to be connected to the internet when you browse your feeds. You can also use the "My ...

I have tried a ton of Pocket PC RSS readers, and the one that I keep coming back to is called Egress, by Garish Kernels. I don't know, but get the impression that Garish Kernels is a one man show, given the very slow updates to the software, and the somewhat lackluster response times to support requests. I'm also somewhat annoyed that a persistent bug still exists in it (at least when using it on ...

Say you want to listen to podcasts or watch vodcasts and a) don't have an iPod or similar, b) don't want to (or can't) install a desktop aggregator, and b) can't be troubled to download them by hand. MediaTuner might be what you're looking for. It's a web-based "rich media aggregator/player," which basically means it gives you a web-based interface for listening to and watching podcasts ...

The folks who make Alertbear describe it as "the free Windows RSS reader that doesn't think you should read feeds like email," and in that aspect I agree completely. Alertbear is a nice little free feed reader for Windows that lives in your system tray and pops up a "stack" of news reminiscent of IM notification boxes when new feed items come in. It has some nice features, like ...

Development on the somewhat unpopular Google Reader doesn't seem to go at a furious pace, but every couple months they drop a new feature into it and usually it's at least marginally cool. Yesterday was such an event, and the feature they've added lets you share selected items from the feeds you read with your friends. Now each label in Google Reader has a "make public" option, and when ...

As in everything else, the blogosphere is well ahead of the media-at-large when it comes ot music, so the best way to stay on the cutting edge of music (or at least appear that way) is to watch the music blogs. It turns out they're chock-full of great MP3s, but if you're like me you don't have much time for reading music blogs and downloading song files. Enter the Hype Machine, a music blog ...

This is very cool, although I haven't received an invite yet, but Dabble creates something Om Malik is coining as videomarks. Om has details on his blog, but Dabble gives you a personal page where you can drop videos from almost any web source: youTube, Veoh, etc. So it's like an online video aggregator. According to Om, it's all very slick and easy to use. More importantly, around 20 companies ...

Just when I was beginning to think of Google Reader as cobweb-ware, the Reader team has announced a nice update to the web-based newsreader. It's nothing earth-shattering, but they have made labels much easier to use with a new drop-down menu as well as a keyboard shortcut that makes adding labels lightnight-fast for us keyboard junkies. There are also some miscellaneous features and additions ...

I've had an invitation to FeedLounge in my Inbox since July, and now I'm never going to get to use it. FeedLounge is yet another web-based feed reader service, but has gotten pretty stellar reviews, and has just opened up to the public. It has the requisite AJAXy interface ("you may quickly forget that you’re using a web application"), a full set of keyboard shortcuts, three ...

Awhile back I linked to Atomibulator, a web service that will give you an Atom feed for any web site, even those that don't easily lend themselves to feeds. At the time I called it "a bit crufty," and it still is. Feed43 is a similar service, but the execution is far superior. Feed43 lets you do advanced screen-scraping on any web page, meaning you can get only the information you're ...

TV Squad guy Keith McDuffee got it right when he said "silly name, neat interface" telling us about Blox0r, which advertises itself as "The best online aggregator ever!" Its an AJAXy feed reader that uses a classic Outlook three-pane interface. On the left is a list of feeds you're subscribed to, a la Bloglines, and on the right are two panes, one for headlines and one to show ...