What Aggregator Do You Use?
For the RSS article I should hand over on Monday the 26th, I’d like to have a sidebar with a list of aggregators for Macs and PCs and desktop and Web-based aggregators and one or two short sentences about each. I figure asking you what aggregators you use might give me a better list than doing a Web search on my own. At least I’ll be naming aggregators someone uses, right? To contribute, comment below or contact me. Thanks in advance to those who respond
Even though my home computer isn’t working right now, I will get responses at some point.
January 18th, 2004 at 9:52 am
This week I have been experimenting with the new MyFeedster web-based aggregator and the desktop SharpReader aggregator. Before this week I was using the built-in Manila web-based aggregator, and I may return to it now that there are more features available for managing my continuously growing list of subscriptions. Hope that helps, j.
January 18th, 2004 at 7:45 pm
I’ve been using SharpReader for some time now, and find it to have most of the options I’m really looking for in an aggregator. It’s fast and light-weight, and lets me organize my feeds however I want.
January 19th, 2004 at 3:39 pm
I use NetNewsWire Lite for MacOSX. I experimented briefly with MacNews, but found its preset categories constraining. In NNW-Lt, I can create whatever categories I like, view posts by category or by individual blog, it seems to handle several flavors of RSS/RDF feeds, and in short has not given me any problems to speak of.
I am also looking into some web-based services like Feedster and Blogrolling (the latter is not really an aggregator, but my blogroll does serve a secondary purpose as a checklist of my favorite blogs, a few of which don’t have RSS feeds).
Oh, not that you asked, but I use Eastgate’s Tinderbox for my own blogging. It actually *does* has some aggregation features, but I haven’t really figured them out.
January 20th, 2004 at 4:46 pm
I’ve used Amphetadesk for awhile www.disobey.com). It’s easy, and free.
I tried FeedDemon this summer too http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/index….). It was pretty nice, although I didn’t get into it enough to try all the customization available. It also costs money after a free trial, so I didn’t renew it.
I signed up for MyFeedster but haven’t used it much yet.
Lots of positive reviews of Bloglines…..I may try that too.
January 22nd, 2004 at 7:12 pm
I am using FeedDemon. (address above) Channels are easy to set up. It’s very easy to add feeds — right click on a page and choose “add to FeedDemon. I was able to export OPML without any difficulty. I wish it had the abilty to search though.