Poll: How many RSS Remix feeds do you subscribe to?
At SXSW there was a panel entitled 'Using RSS for Marketing' (our coverage here from Sean Ammirati). Mick Liubinskas, from group communications product Tangler, left a good comment on our post:
"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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I subscribe to 7 (about 5% of my rss subscriptions) - primarily search/discovery subscriptions where I'm searching multiple sources, running them through an aggressive filter and outputting something very specific (like mention of our company, products or certain clients.)
I'm currently using 2 RSS mix feeds and actually did write a topic on this subject at WebbNytt (a Swedish web tools blog) yesterday.
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.
Hi Aaron, what do you use to filter your remix feeds? Can you give us an example?
The poll aims a bit too high. I doubt there's anyone that follows hundreds of RSS remix feeds, and there's probably a very, very small number of those who use more than 10. Personally, I've used more than 10, but that was in part because I was writing about remixing RSS feeds quite a bit.
How does planets count (Planet PHP, etc.)
I have two and they are more experiments than feeds I rely on. The technology isn't there yet.
Planets don't count, as you're not filtering them yourself.
Perhaps the poll does aim too high, but that's kind of what I'm attempting to find out? :-)
Now that's what I call Blog service! Thanks Richard. Quite interesting commentary.
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 may not be up on the latest, but for now I'm sticking with
my customized Netvibes display. I (heart icon) Netvibes!
I wonder if you consider Planets as "RSS Remix feeds" for the purpose of this poll...
A lot of remixing is also starting to happen at the application level. In 30 Boxes we do a lot of feed blending for display and also offer remixes back out in visualizations or plain RSS.
I don't currently have any remix feeds in my RSS subscriptions, but I plan on doing so in the near future with the Yahoo! Pipes API..thanks in large part to your excellent earlier post on Pipes and the Web Database!
I would like to suggest that google reader also allows for a kind of people driven remixing through its tag sharing mechanism. You can think of that as social filtering.
I don't subscribe to any re-mixed feeds, but instead I grab all of my feeds from social networks and remix them on my own site.
http://neurokinetikz.com
Hi Richard. Sorry for the late response - SXSW has a lock on my attention.
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.
What about mixing inside the aggregator so that as your interests change the output changes without having to resubscribe to new feeds or tweak the settings in a 3rd party tool.
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.