"RSS is a big topic of discussion around Tangler. Obviously we want to do it, but there's doing it and there's doing it well. Options with an RSS would be interesting and I'd like to see someone do that well.
e.g. Give me everything, or just give we stuff with the word collaboration in it. Or maybe, give me articles with 50+reads and/or 10+ comments."
That got me thinking about how many of you currently subscribe to RSS Remix feeds - i.e. feeds that have been filtered or mashed up with other feeds.
In my reply to Mick's comment, I said that RSS filtering is still a work in progress. Yahoo Pipes is at the geeky end of the spectrum, with its sophisticated "feed aggregator and manipulator" capabilities. But it shows where we're headed with remix feeds. Market leader in feed management, Feedburner, hasn't done a lot with filtering yet. However we've profiled several RSS Remix products recently on R/WW: FeedBlendr, FeedRinse, FeedDigest and BlastFeed. Others that have been mentioned in our comments are macro.scopia and the interestingly-named Profilactic. There are many others, I'm sure, but the point of this poll is to ask: are you using RSS remix feeds yet?
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The reason for the topic was the fact that many of the RSS mix services I've tried fail when trying to add a feed from Technorati, and sometimes del.icio.us.
The only service that I've came across that passes without any problems for any of the feeds of my option is FEEDcombine. A great free RSS mix service without the need of signing up. I'm not in collaboration with them in any way, in case anyone is wondering. I came across them when frustrated trying to find a service that really worked for baking my RSS cake.
]]>Perhaps the poll does aim too high, but that's kind of what I'm attempting to find out? :-)
]]>Another interesting question would be to see if any of the RSS feeds remixes have 'crossed the chasm' and been picked up by the non-tech world as 'something I subscribe to'.
]]>I use Feed Rinse - most of what I'm doing is available to the public (but just so everyone knows I'm one of the developers of the tool - makes me biased.)
An example mixed feed I run is a vanity search for electric pulp, wellstream or feed rinse. I mix sphere, technorati and a few searches and then filter out a number of sources (design galleries, clients, local news, etc.)
I've also been playing with Pipes to do the same thing for Feed Rinse, but I run part of the blended feed through babblefish to give me partial translations. It hasn't been working for me yet, but I haven't given up.
]]>Something like Tangler, especially, would involve all sorts conversations about topics that I may come to appreciate, or get sick of, over time.
Personally I'd love to get a feed of all Tangler conversation throughout the platform and then filter it based my ever changing Attention Profile.
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