September 08, 2003
A personal on-line news aggregation service
THIS WEEK NetSpeak features a few tools that can be deployed to create private on-line news aggregation services.
Several web sites publish regularly details of their new content in an XML-based standard format called RSS (Rich Site Summary). The products that can read RSS feeds and enable us to subscribe to the news feeds of our choice are called news aggregators. There are two types of news aggregators available — web-based and desktop based. In the past, this column has featured several news aggregators that belong to both categories.
Several web sites publish regularly details of their new content in an XML-based standard format called RSS (Rich Site Summary). The products that can read RSS feeds and enable us to subscribe to the news feeds of our choice are called news aggregators. There are two types of news aggregators available — web-based and desktop based. In the past, this column has featured several news aggregators that belong to both categories.
