I am currently preparing material for Beginning RSS and Atom Programming which I am co-writing with Danny Ayers for Wrox Press .
One of the tasks is to review information aggregators. The number of aggregators is huge. I would be interested in any feedback from satisfied users of information aggregators which allow long-term storage of data derived from RSS and Atom feeds and which allow user-specified filtering in the information aggregator.
The basic tasks of adding feeds and displaying their content seems to be adequately or better handled by a host of aggregators. But the notions of long-term storage of interesting information and the ability to filter information inside feeds seems to be less adequately implemented. Any feedback on those aspects of currently available tools, particularly tools which implement these notions well, would be great.
Anybody who is developing what I would think of as a "next generation" aggregator and who doesn't want to make their product public quite yet would be welcome to email me at SVG Deve loper at aol dot com. I would be happy to mention interesting upcoming tools which provide something that "the crowd" doesn't yet support.
Posted by Andrew Watt at November 6, 2004 02:37 PM | TrackBack