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RSS FAQs - Adding Your Feeds to RSS News Readers and Aggregators
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A collection of 11 FAQs on RSS news aggregators. Clear answers are provided with tutorial codes on desktop and online news aggregators; adding your feeds to online news aggregators; sample codes for Google Reader, My Yahoo, Bloglines, NewsGator, Netvibes.
Topics included in this collection are:
- What Is a RSS Aggregator?
- What Is a Desktop RSS Aggregator?
- What Is FeedReader?
- What Is BlogBridge?
- What is Liferea?
- What Is an Online RSS Aggregator?
- How To Create an Add-to-Google-Reader Button on Your Website?
- How To Create an Add-to-My-Yahoo Button on Your Website?
- How To Create an Add-to-Bloglines Button on Your Website?
- How To Create an Add-to-NewsGator Button on Your Website?
- How To Create an Add-to-Netvibes Button on Your Website?
What Is a RSS Aggregator?
A RSS aggregator, also called RSS reader, is software application that allows you to subscribe to many RSS feeds from various sources
and read them in one place. A RSS aggregator usually provides a big list of RSS feeds from popular news providers.
But it also allows you to enter the URL of a specific RSS feed that you are interested. The diagram blows shows
you how a RSS aggregator fetches RSS feeds for you:
What Is a Desktop RSS Aggregator?
A desktop RSS aggregator is a special RSS aggregator that you have download and install it on your computer.
Examples of desktop RSS aggregators are:
- FeedReader - A free open-source desktop aggregator that supports RSS and Atom formats. FeedReader runs on Windows systems.
- Liferea - A free open source desktop RSS reader. Liferea is designed for Linux systems.
- BlogBridge - A free open source and multi-platform desktop RSS reader. BlogBridge is a Java application.
What Is FeedReader?
Feedreader is a free lightweight aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. FeedReader runs on Windows systems.
Feedreader's functionality is focused on the main task - reading and organizing RSS feeds and offering seamless
user experience. Feedreader installation file is under 3.5MB. Feedreader is free and open source.
Feedreader is completely customizable application.
To know more about Blogbridge, visit http://www.feedreader.com/.
What Is BlogBridge?
Blogbridge is a free open source and multi-platform desktop RSS reader. BlogBridge is a blog, feed and
RSS aggregator for "info-junkies." While there are other aggregators out there, BlogBridge is designed
for people who are required to follow lots of feeds, not 10 or 20, but 200 or 400. You can't read that much,
so BlogBridge gives you lots of ways to organize, sort through, skim and discover what's important to you
in this avalanche of information.
To know more about Blogbridge, visit http://www.blogbridge.com/.
What is Liferea?
Liferea is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available,
but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed.
Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator
for GTK/GNOME.
To know more about Liferea, visit http://liferea.sourceforge.net/.
What Is an Online RSS Aggregator?
An online RSS aggregator is a Website that serves you as a RSS aggregator. Once you have registered an online
RSS aggregator, you can access it from any computer on the Internet. Examples of online RSS aggregators are:
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