RSS Everywhere
Back in the day I thought Amazon’s Wish List feature was a killer app, but I reconsidered after trying to get relatives to find my list and return to it months later when my birthday came around. I didn't like having my list tucked away in some corner of the Web. Why not scatter my reading, viewing and listening habits to the four corners of the Web? (No one bought gifts from my list anyway.)
And We'll Have RSS Wherever We Go
RSS Readers are great for getting content updates, but the real value of RSS comes in displaying your own content on other pages like your blog or a personal portal page like PageFlakes, NetVibes or iGoogle:
I'm waiting for my library to pull their lists into their Web page with an RSS-to-HTML converter. If you see anyone doing that, please leave a comment or trackback if you blog it.
On February 26, 2008 at 2:44 PM Brad Czerniak said:
The Google Reader gadget is a real time-saver.
When I first got on iGoogle, I only had a couple feeds to track. Each of them was their own gadget. It was an ideal setup, until I had about 10 feeds that I liked. Then, it was time to aggregate. I added the Google Reader gadget -- all the updates went to a single gadget and launched in a bubble: NICE. Finally, I now have so many feeds that I read them directly from Google Reader itself, and the gadget is little more than a link to that app.
Anyways, Rex Sorgatz at Fimoculous has some tasteful ways of parsing his personal feeds into his site.
Sites can use pre-made widgets to get the content to the screen, or you could parse the feeds however you'd like with a scripting language. There are a bunch of tools for the job, so let me know what you'd like to do and we can go from there.