Friday, May 21, 2004
Wired News: A Scan of the Headline Scanners
A reasonable survey of RSS readers: SharpReader, NewsGator, Bloglines and KlipFolio are all reviewed, and for us interaction people it's interesting to see the different approaches and priorities that are addressed with each system. You could do an interesting exercise in producing the typical user and scenario for each of these, reverse engineering requirements from results.
A couple of things are missing: Desktop Sidebar is the one I use, which puts an active sidebar on the screen which pulls in both RSS feeds and can screen-scrape for headlines. But one of the best resources would be an RSS aggregator that fits in part of a web page, allowing one to create a web site and slot a RSS feed reader straight into it - and I've not found a decent one of those yet. There are a few php efforts, but nothing really neat.
A reasonable survey of RSS readers: SharpReader, NewsGator, Bloglines and KlipFolio are all reviewed, and for us interaction people it's interesting to see the different approaches and priorities that are addressed with each system. You could do an interesting exercise in producing the typical user and scenario for each of these, reverse engineering requirements from results.
A couple of things are missing: Desktop Sidebar is the one I use, which puts an active sidebar on the screen which pulls in both RSS feeds and can screen-scrape for headlines. But one of the best resources would be an RSS aggregator that fits in part of a web page, allowing one to create a web site and slot a RSS feed reader straight into it - and I've not found a decent one of those yet. There are a few php efforts, but nothing really neat.
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