RSS Tutorial

RSS Tools and Resources

The following is a list of various tools and resources for RSS. The list includes items that I found interesting. It certainly does not pretend to be an exhaustive list. I do include some resources with more comprehensive lists. There is no implied endorsement. As a general rule, I used the words from the product websites to describe the product or service.

RSS Resources

RSS Compendium: The RSS Compendium is designed to link you to information about RSS readers, resources, tools, etc...
Mashable RSS Toolbox: The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources
RSS Specifications: RSS Tools

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RSS Information

RSS SSE Introduction: Ray Ozzie, the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft, introduces Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS
RSS SSE - Information: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML, Information and Specification.

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RSS Services

ReminderFeed: ReminderFeed is a FREE reminder service that delivers reminder messages right to your feed reader.
MultiRSS: MultiRSS is a free service that allows you to replace all of your RSS feed subscription buttons on your blog with one button. Your users will click on our button and then be able to choose the RSS reader that they use from our current list of the 38 most used RSS readers.
immedi.at: immedi.at helps you to keep track of online information as it changes. It sends you an instant message whenever any RSS or Atom feed you want to monitor changes.
Feedsubmitter: Feedsubmitter submits your feed to multiple sites
Feed Validator: Validate your RSS Feed.
FeedMail Now!: In many ways, feedmail is similar to email. With feedmail, messages are sent using RSS feeds which can be read through most RSS feed readers.
Feed 2 Podcast: Feed2Podcast will turn your RSS feed into a Podcast by using a text-to-speech program.
RapidFeeds: RapidFeeds allows anyone to create and manage their own RSS feeds completely and effortlessly. It also gives publishers the freedom to distribute and get their RSS feeds displayed on other websites, while webmasters can customize the whole look and feel of the content displayed.
Wiki.co.mments: A service at co.mments.com turns a blog comments thread into an RSS feed.
FeedRinse: Feed Rinse is an easy to use tool that lets you automatically filter out syndicated content that you aren't interested in. It's like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions.
Rasasa: Rasasa delivers the news to your messenger if you're online and to your mobile phone if you're offline... Or to your email box if you're in a 'quiet time'.

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RSS Readers / Aggregators with something extra

RSS DJ: RSS DJ does several things, including taking any text based RSS feed (blogs, news feeds, anything), and automatically converts them to spoken word MP3 podcasts!
RsstRoom Reader - personal news delivery system.: Stay on top of all the breaking stories with custom printed toilet tissue with the rsstroom reader.
TV RSS: TVRSS brings TV shows to your desktop through RSS
ZapTXT: ZapTXT connects you to the web using SMS messages on your mobile device. You select RSS feeds, and tell ZapTXT what and when to text message you with breaking information. ZapTXT connects you to services and information when and where you need them!

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RSS Feed Mixers

RSSMix: Mix any number of feeds into one new one
KickRSS: Choose your feeds, create a new one from them. Simple and fast.
RSSMesh: The rssMesh.php script allows you to produces an RSS feed by taking the latest items from multiple feeds.
FeedBlendr: "We'll grab your feeds, blend them up into a thick, tasty ... smoothie, and give you a single URL where you can subscribe to them all at once."

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RSS Email

FeedBlitz: You can subscribe to any blog or RSS feed by email with FeedBlitz.
Squeet: Squeet provides an easy way to subscribe to any RSS or Feed via Email.

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RSS Bus

RSS Bus: "An enterprise service bus (ESB) is a pattern of middleware that unifies and connects services, applications and resources within a business. Put another way, it is the framework within which the capabilities of a business' applications are made available for reuse by other applications throughout the organization and beyond." ...
RSSBus is a Service Bus - but a Really Simple one, and it uses RSS as the main interchange mechanism.

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