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Do you use aggregators to get updates in the bunch of your choosen blogs?
I have not found any that I woul find comfortable and started a project that would be something like an active bookmark list - it would let you maintain your list of bookmarked pages and see where were updates since the last time you have read them. I think the information about updates is the real usefull feature of aggregators and the marginal usefullness of having headlines displayed does not justify the difficulty of using RSS, and many (if not most) sites I read don't have RSS feeds anyway.
Do you think such tool would be usefull? Would you use it?
Mine will be web based - so it won't be so slick as something integrated into the browser, but a centralized database of links will let me build some additionall functionality - like browsing bookmarks of your friends, comparing bookmark lists, and searching for people with similar bookmark lists.
An alternative would be to code it into some Open Source browser (mozilla?), this would help the user experience, but I am intrigued about the mentioned additionall functionallities so I decided to go the web interface way.
What do you think?
I have not found any that I woul find comfortable and started a project that would be something like an active bookmark list - it would let you maintain your list of bookmarked pages and see where were updates since the last time you have read them. I think the information about updates is the real usefull feature of aggregators and the marginal usefullness of having headlines displayed does not justify the difficulty of using RSS, and many (if not most) sites I read don't have RSS feeds anyway.
Do you think such tool would be usefull? Would you use it?
Mine will be web based - so it won't be so slick as something integrated into the browser, but a centralized database of links will let me build some additionall functionality - like browsing bookmarks of your friends, comparing bookmark lists, and searching for people with similar bookmark lists.
An alternative would be to code it into some Open Source browser (mozilla?), this would help the user experience, but I am intrigued about the mentioned additionall functionallities so I decided to go the web interface way.
What do you think?
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Re: Aggregators
01/26I have high hopes for aggregators, but I like the 3-paned ones that don't take up the browser window. But then I hate web-based email interfaces too.
On the other hand, ever since I switched off Radio to go totally MT, I find I miss the Radio Aggregator. That's about the only thing I do miss on Radio. I use Net News Wire Lite at home, and feedreader on another machine at work. I also have to recommend a good aggregator for my technophobe colleagues at work, and so far have not found an aggregator that penetrates their technological barriers, and that is the litmus test.
Chris
