RSS Tools
This page provides links to a number of tools that will help you create and read RSS feeds.
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"AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage."
Added: 31 January 2004
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easy to install for Mac, Windows and Linux
"BlogExpress is a full-featured .NET application for content syndication (as also called a news aggregator or a blog reader). BlogExpress supports all RSS versions and ATOM. It can read contents from any Weblogs (a.k.a., blog) and any Websites that provide XML files for content syndication (Generally, a file with .rss, .rdf, or .xml extension."
Added: 22 April 2004
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BlogExpress requires Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Runtime
"Bloglines is a free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. With Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs, and Bloglines will monitor updates to those sites. You can read the latest entries easily within Bloglines."
Added: 5 January 2004
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A great way of accessing all your blogs from one place
"If you like to read blogs and you always play with Excel, please give this add-in a try! You can read / check blogs from Excel."
Added: 19 August 2004
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Use Excel to read RSS feeds
"FeedBeep is the final link between you and the wealth of information published on the internet. Hundred
s of thousands of data feeds are available in RSS format, and now you can receive alerts about events worldwide – as they happen – right on your SMS-capable phone. Alerts can be set to go to your mobile device or our web messaging system based on your keywords or any time new information is posted to a feed."
Added: 24 January 2005
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SMS alerts to your phone or pager about any RSS feed
"SmartFeed is an intelligent, subscriber-aware feed service that enables you to reach the widest possible audience while publishing a single feed on your blog or site. Today, SmartFeed converts Atom feeds to RSS on-the-fly for readers that do not support Atom. In the coming weeks, SmartFeed will be getting even smarter!"
Updated: 8 July 2004
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Feedburner has just added a Headline Animator to promote your blog content.
"A tool to produce serialised RSS. The enables you to distribute training via RSS. Regardless of when a user subscribes, they will always start at lesson 1."
Added: 6 November 2006
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Useful for serialised e-learning feeds
"Feed-Directory.com is a complete directory of syndicated feeds. With over several thousand feeds in its database, Feed-Directory.com is one of the biggest feed directories on the web, and every day several thousand more are added."
Added: 14 December 2004
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"The complete internet is crawled by a special feed spider that tries to identify RSS and Atom feeds. This process takes several weeks, and is never finished. If you'd like to speed up this process, you can submit your feed now by clicking on the 'Add Your Feed' link on top. It will take up to 24-48 hours for your feed to appear in the directory."
"You want to create professional RSS feeds but you have no time learn RSS technology. Feed Editor is solution for you! Feed Editor performs all operations instead of you. It works with different RSS formats, import text from CSV and HTML files, helps you to edit HTML in WYSIWYG editor, edit XML and pictures, gives you ability view RSS feeds and publish them, support RSS feeds export to HTML, CSV and JavaScript"
Added: 9 June 2006
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"Podcasting is also supported by Feed Editor. You can upload podcastings as simple as creates them."
"Feedforall allows users to easily create, edit and publish rss feeds."
Added: 8 October 2004
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Beta test and receive a discount when you order!
"Feedreader is a lightweight open-source aggregator that supports all major RSS formats. It works under Windows 95 and later versions."
Added: 22 April 2004
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Feedreader is licensed under GPL and its source is available for download
"Feedroll is a free service for syndicating popular RSS news feeds on your website or blog. These feeds are generally provided for personal non commerical use only. If you have any questions about your use of these feeds you should contact the publisher in question."
Updated: 28 September 2005
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"Publishers, you can get a free trial of our Pro service, FeedrollPro, so you can offer your own feeds for really simple syndication by any other website." (http://www.feedrollpro.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=100)
"Feed Scout is a RSS/ATOM/RDF/XML reader that can be used directly from Internet Explorer. You can even set your Home Page to show favorite feeds. Feed Scout is a plug-in for Internet Explorer, so you won't have to learn anything except for how to press 2 new buttons on the Internet Explorer toolbar."
Added: 27 December 2004
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Free trial download available
Feedster Builder :: Create a Feed
Added: 31 January 2004
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This tool creates an RSS file for you from a webpage which only requires the use of a few HTML tags. Very easy to set up, and ideal for anyone who doesn't use a blog that automatically generates an RSS feed
"Creates RSS web feeds from generic web pages without existing syndication options. Works with Google and eBay search results as well."
Added: 21 October 2005
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FeedTier is an experimental service and free for personal use.
"FeedYes.com gives rss feeds to websites without feeds. Just type the url of any page, and FeedYes gives you the feed."
Added: 9 March 2006
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An easy 3-step process to creating an RSS feed from a webpage
"Google Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web."
Updated: 9 March 2006
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Sign into Google Reader with your Google account
"MailbyRSS is a FREE service for authoring RSS channels by email. It is ideal for organizations that wish to augment their opt-in e-mail campaigns with RSS channels, providing them a way to ensure that the information they publish reaches subscribers without being blocked by spam lists or filters."
Added: 2 February 2004
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Sign up for your free account
"Track your favorite news, topics or sports teams across many different sites, all in one simple page that you create."
Updated: 18 April 2005
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"Do you spend too much time trying to figure out what's new on your favorite web sites and blogs? NewsGator's Web Edition tracks it all and brings the web pages to you."
"Why downloading Pluck is a really good idea: 4 integrated applications in one: Bookmark manager, web sharing, easier Google search, RSS news reader; Runs in one IE browser window, easy to use, free!"
Added: 3 July 2004
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To learn more about Pluck, take the Pluck product tour
"RapidFeeds allows anyone to create and manage their own RSS feeds completely and effortlessly. It also gives publishers the freedom to distribute and get their RSS or Atom feeds displayed on other websites, while webmasters can customize the whole look and feel of the content displayed."
Added: 24 February 2006
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Sign up for FeedManager and MySite for free
"RSS2Exchange allows you to publish your very own industry specific news pages directly into MS Exchange Public Folders. RSS2Exchange downloads RSS and Atom feeds, aggregates the content from all selected feeds and filters these for the latest content based on must have and can't have keywords and phrases with wild cards. The results are then uploaded directly into Exchange public folders from where users can view the latest news stories directly from Outlook."
Added: 31 August 2005
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You can obtain a FREE trial version
"RSSCalendar lets users quickly setup online calendars that can be syndicated as RSS feeds."
Added: 2 August 2004
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Share your calendar with unlimited users
Updated: 20 September 2005
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Enter the web address of the RSS Feed and then press convert
RSSify at Wytheville Community College
"This form takes your web page and turns it into RSS 0.92"
Added: 31 January 2004
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Quick and easy to use
RSS Orbit - a feed reader for mobiles
"Want to read your favorite blogs or news feeds on your mobile? Then RSS Orbit is what you need. As an ideal companion to BlogPlanet it loads RSS/RDF and Atom feeds from the net and saves them so they can be viewed repeatedly, minimizing transfer costs."
Added: 20 May 2004
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Download a trial version
"Free RSS reader is able to display any RSS news feeds (XML)"
Added: 31 January 2004
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You will need to install the Microsoft .NET framework first but full instructions at the site.
Added: 2 February 2005
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Editors, readers, creators, scripts, parsers, conversion tools, etc
"SharpReader is an RSS Aggregator for the .NET framework"
Added: 31 January 2004
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Prior to running SharpReader, you will need to install the .NET Framework
"Manage your news feeds in your personal account; Display any News feed on your own site using simple and short HTML code; Give more exposure and visibility to your Web site or Blog."
Added: 5 October 2004
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Sign up for free
"Videora 1.0 is the first version of our new personal video downloading program. Utilizing BitTorrent peer to peer technology and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, Videora automatically and intelligently finds and downloads video you want to watch. With easy to use features like Want Lists and Season Tickets you will be able to watch your favorite video, no matter where you are in the world. All you need to get started is a broadband internet connection and Windows."
Added: 12 January 2005
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FREE
"YodPod is a free web-based RSS Reader accessible from any computer or mobile device with an internet connection."
Added: 8 February 2006
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"YodPod will download and display the content you want via RSS from your favorite websites, right here on the page. We've already added a feed for you to get you started. This is a free service."
