Why should I read it?

RSS provides an easy to manage way of collecting headlines, links and abstracts to current and up to date web pages. Here’s some things you might use it for:-

  • Creating a “Daily Me” newspaper of articles, from sources you find interesting
  • Putting a news feed of related news headlines on your niche web site
  • Collating competitive analysis about your competitors
  • Tracking what other people are saying about your company
    And I’m sure there are many others.

    • What can read it?

    Readers and Viewers

  • Headline Viewer. A Windows application that lets you see news headlines from a configurable list of Headline Providers (news sources and weblogs).
  • Radio. Among other things, Radio is a powerful XML-based news aggregator that runs as a local MS Windows or Mac application. It’s closely tied into a weblogging system.
  • Amphetadesk AmphetaDesk is a news aggregator - it sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage.
  • Wytheville Community College News Center A site that generates JavaScript for webmasters to include an RSS feed in their pages.
  • Proggle, Novobot A smart headline viewer which reads RSS files as well as HTML pages.
  • Reptile. A Java based OCS/RSS reader/writer.
  • FeedReader A windows desktop/tray app to read and display headlines.
  • Figby
  • ForumZilla
  • RSS to Javascript
  • HotSheet An extensible Java reader.
  • NewzCrawler MS Windows web news reader & browser.
  • SlashDock MS Windows tray reader

    Web Aggregators

  • Meerkat (Instructions here)
  • My UserLand
  • News Is Free

    Toolkits

  • RSS2rssA perl script to take a group of rss feeds and combine them into one rss feed.
  • RSS2BloggerA perl link to take a group of rss feeds and push them to a Blogger blog.
  • RSS Monkey RSS Monkey is a simple, stand-alone script that allows you to add RSS feeds from other sites to your personal site.
  • Orchard/RSS Orchard RSS is a cross-language Groves-based parser for RSS. It currently works in Perl, Python and C.
  • RDF::RSS A Perl-based RSS parser for RDF. Uses the Redland RDF Application Framework
  • Slashwatch A PHP newsgrabber that reads RSS files and stuffs them in a MySQL database for later use.
  • Jetspeed An open source, Java and XML-based implementation of a Web portal. Reads RSS files and ouputs them in many formats.
  • XML::RSS A Perl module to read and write RSS files.
  • GrabNews. An Open source MS ASP solution to collecting and displaying RSS news feeds.
  • Cocoon
  • WebMacro
  • Velocity

    Open-Source Code

  • mod_index_rss: http://tangent.org/mod_index_rss/
  • Peerkat: http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/python/peerkat/
  • Reptile: http://reptile.openprivacy.org/
  • AmphetaDesk: http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/
  • Hotscripts search: http://www.hotscripts.com/search/?query=rss&category=all&bool=AND
  • Sourceforge search: http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=rss