News are usually presented in article form on the Internet with links to related articles in and around the content. Silobreaker provides an interesting alternative to the common presentation with their so called network relationship search. It basically allows the visitor to enter a search term in their form on top to compute a relationship [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Google Reader Essentials Userscript
Helvetireader is a minimal Google Reader interface theme supplied as a userscript that turns Google Reader into an optimized feed reader that is displaying only the essentials. It was especially designed to view feeds in the expanded view using keyboard shortcuts. A userscript compatible browser is needed for the new interface theme to work. Long [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 17
Desktop RSS Reader Newzie
Switching from Google Reader to another RSS reader was no easy task. Google Reader provides a very good feed reading experience that is hard to top. The major problem I was facing with Google Reader was not really related to that RSS reader alone but more to the way the account data was handled by [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
RSS Feed Filter Feedrinse
Feedrinse is a basic RSS feed filter that can be used to filter one or multiple feeds so that only selected articles will be included in the mashup. This could remind a few users of Yahoo Pipes. The service provided by Feedrinse is however basic in comparison to that of Yahoo Pipes. A user of [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 19
Forward Email To RSS
We have shown you yesterday how you can forward RSS news to Email. Today it is the other way round by reviewing the service MailOnFeed which creates RSS news feeds out of Email accounts. The basic principle of the service is straightforward. The user adds one or multiple email accounts that support IMAP to his [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Google Reader Automatically Translates Feeds
Automatic RSS news feed translation is a feature that might come in handy for numerous users of Google Reader. It is not uncommon to stumble upon a really great website in another language that you might understand a bit or even not all at all. It is still possible to understand what is being said [...]
Credible Reporting eh?
I use Digg (on occasion), StumbleUpon and sometimes Google News. The New York Times and Techmeme satisfy the rest of my needs. I didn’t really think I could be interested in yet another crowd-powered news aggregating website… Mixx, Reddit, Regator, Social Median, Soshable, Propeller, Sphinn even… whether they’re the next Digg I have no idea… [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
Customize RSS News Feeds With Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo Pipes is a very sophisticated online tool which might look intimidating at first glance but which provides a great interface that requires minimal input to create astonishing results. One major use of Yahoo Pipes is the customization of RSS News Feeds. It does not really matter if one RSS News Feed or multiple should [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Comments: 1
DailyMe – Online news at your doorstep
If you like reading newspaper style news, as well as online style, DailyMe may be for you. It aims to give you content you like, in a sort of digest form every morning for example. It tries to mimic the experience of reading the morning paper as closely as possible and does a quite good [...]
