kartooner

I’ve been try­ing to find a good news aggre­ga­tor sim­i­lar to News­ga­tor, but with­out the Out­look inte­gra­tion, and effi­cient much like the online feed ser­vice Blog­lines. I have found what I was look­ing for in Nick Bradbury’s Feed­De­mon, a news aggre­ga­tor that offers a wealth of great fea­tures includ­ing sev­eral pre-installed RSS feeds, auto­matic feed updates and a clean stream­lined interface.

For those who are new to RSS, the acronym stands for Rich Site Sum­mary or Really Sim­ple Syn­di­ca­tion. More infor­ma­tion can be found at Lockergnome’s RSS Quick­start Guide. In the­ory, RSS is an XML for­mat used to syn­di­cate con­tent from web sites (like kartooner.com) such as news arti­cles, head­lines and announce­ments with­out hav­ing to actu­ally visit the site itself.

It allows you as the user to use a news aggre­ga­tor appli­ca­tion or ser­vice to ‘read’ the news feeds like a dig­i­tal news­pa­per deliv­er­ing inter­est­ing news feeds only lim­ited to the imag­i­na­tion. It’s a medium that is begin­ning to catch on and reminds me of early adap­ta­tions of HTML or email for that matter.

With Tapestry’s RSS feeds I can read some of my favorite comics includ­ing B.C., Garfield, Peanuts and PvP. A note­wor­thy addi­tion is the excel­lent Ripley’s Believe it or Not feed which includes the infa­mous Rip­ley record of wacky infor­ma­tion, whether you believe it or not.

RSS has become so pop­u­lar for infor­ma­tion deliv­ery and syn­di­ca­tion that sites like Ama­zon (cour­tesy of Chris Pir­illo) and CNN have cre­ated news feeds for their syn­di­cated content.

Feed­De­mon Rat­ing:

Bot­tom Line: If you’re look­ing for a feature-rich and excel­lent news aggre­ga­tor; Get Feed­De­mon now!