RSS/Atom feed aggregator

Some collections of RSS/Atom feed aggregator. You can use these tools to manage your favorate blogs.

1. Sage (****): a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It is well integrated into firefox. If you use mozilla/firefox, you must use Sage. It can display newest feeds in one customized page. However, it doesn't have a feature to let user show all the updated feeds.

2. Feedreader (****): a lightweight open-source aggregator desktop application that supports RSS and ATOM formats. It is very easy to use. But it can't display Chinese.

The trends for information search consolidation

Google is HOT. Search market is HOT. 2005 will continue to be a year of search technology. Search technology has moved from Web Search to all kinds of specialized search technologies, image search, video search, desktop search, blog search etc. There is a need to consolidate all the search sources to bring user a search-for-all technology. There are some technologies to be the beginning of the trend.

1. Verity Federator: leading provider of the consolidation technology.
2. Yahoo Search Subscriptions Beta: launched June 15, 2005.
3. Google Könguló: an open source personal web spider for google desktop search.

This list will be updated continuously.