April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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Kinja also publishes an RSS feed for your subscription mix; look for that link at the bottom of your reading list
when you’re logged in. This is called “feed splicing” and means that you can subscribe to the specic mix in
yet another feed reader.
FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com) allows you to plug in several of your friend’s RSS feeds at
once—like their blog feed, their Amazon wishlist, their shared Google Reader items, their favorite
YouTube videos, or whatever feeds they’ve dened in their prole. (And for people who don’t have
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- BEYOND GOOGLE: BLOGLINES, KINJA, AND OTHER FEED READERS
FriendFeed showing new items from people you subscribed to
a FriendFeed feed prole congured, you can set up your own “imaginary friend” prole.) You will
then get a stream of their activity, which you and others can comment on, as shown in Figure 8-24.
Thanks to the “Share something” button, you can also use FriendFeed as your microblogging app.
Simple, social, and addictive!
Netvibes (http://netvibes.com) is both a personalized home page—in the style of iGoogle (see
Chapter 6)—as well as one of the many ways to digest RSS. After registering with the site, click “Add
content” in the top left and select the “Add a feed” link. You can now provide a single RSS or Atom
feed, or the URL of a home page containing such a feed, or you can browse for ...
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