Tuesday 30 November 2010

Online Aggregators

I'd like to represent a list of online Aggregators with their advantages and disadvantages:
Bloglines
Advantages:
  • all major browsers supported (e.g. Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Firefox)
  • user-friendly especially for beginners
  • free, web-based aggregator
  • easy registration
  • no advertisements
  • contains its own directory of RSS feeds of thousands of websites
  • personal email account for subscribing to newsletter emails (optional)
  • allows privacy adjustments for personal blogs
  • allows saved searches
  • mobile version available
  • 10 languages supported
  • additional add-on tools for automated blogrolls and subscription buttons
NewsGator
Advantages:
  • free (consumer-standard version)
  • provides personalized news channel
  • allows translation of RSS articles into email format
  • synchronization of feeds in several devices possible
  • browse and search feed capabilities save time on surfing
  • allows keyword filtering
  • blog headlines
  • button-click automatic subscription to news feeds
Disadvantage:
  • Outlook-based thus limited to Windows
My Yahoo
Advantages:
  • Free web-based aggregator
  • user-friendly
  • customizable home page design
  • button-click subscription to RSS feeds
  • built-in directory and search tool for feeds
  • wide variety of feeds e.g. news (science, technology, local), weather
  • connects to all Yahoo features and services
Disadvantage
  • banner advertisements
There are also lightweight RSS aggregator extensions which are actually plug-ins to existing internet browsers. An example of which is
Sage aggregator
Advantages:
  • free of charge
  • beginner-friendly
  • reeds both RSS and Atom feeds
  • allows feed discovery
  • can be assimilated to Firefox bookmark (storage and live)
  • allows OPML feed lists imports and exports
  • customizable style sheets
  • supports a wide range of locales e.g. Catalan, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Polish, Slovenian, etc.
  • easy installation
Disadvantages:
  • good for about 12 RSS feeds
  • limited use to Mozilla-Firefox and Mozilla-Firefox supported browsers

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