Aggregation of Shared Items from FeedDemon?

May 13, 2008 in Applications by Carsten Pötter | Comments

Just a quick follow-up post to yesterday’s post on FeedDemon. While FeedDemon is an excellent feed reader – actually the best one I ever used – I’m a little bit envious of the tools build for Google Reader, especially RSSmeme and ReadBurner. Both services aggregate shared items on Google Reader. I think it’s an excellent way to track which stories and articles people are actually reading and think are worth sharing with friends and fellow news junkies. The services provide a broader view on the blogosphere than e.g. Techmeme because smaller and lesser-known blogs rise to the surface.

So wouldn’t it be great if more feed readers were supported by those services? Well, today ReadBurner has announced support for Netvibes and has given some hints for more news (via Center Networks). Is there any hope that FeedDemon will be supported soon? I want that badly. FeedDemon supports sharing of articles as well. Just make sure to tick the box in the settings of any Clippings folder. I have created a new one for that purpose, aptly titled Shared Items, of course.

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  • I haven't played with FeedDemon in quite a while. Just went on my to-do list!
  • Carsten Pötter
    Good to read, Drew. Give it a top priority, though. ;)
  • Another thing to consider playing with is some software I’ve developed, Xenos. This enables you to "compose" what are sort of like iTunes playlists of items from various RSS feeds. It works a lot like iTunes. You just subscribe to the feeds you’re interested in, then drag and drop the news items you like into a new feed of your own. You can republish that as a new RSS feed, or easily send the new list to others via an html email newsletter. Sorry if that seems like spam, it just seems relevant to what you're writing about.
  • Carsten Pötter
    Scott, I never heard of Xenos. I will have a look at it when I have some time.
  • I have been a FeedDemon fan for a very long time - hell I even paid for it before it became free. I also use the NewsGator shared feed option as well but like you I wish these shared feed aggregators didn't think that Google was the only option here.

    Now I have talked with both Adam from ReadBurner and Benjiman from RSSmeme and both acknowlegde this as a short coming that each project is looking at trying to rectify this - so we'll see what happens.

    Now if we can just getting you using Disqus :)
  • Carsten Pötter
    While I have seen the sharing options for the firt time in Google Reader, other readers are capable of it as well. It's also possible with Bloglines and I guess with other ones as well.

    I have to think about Disqus a little bit more. Not everything's positive about it.
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