Library clips

Geeking with Greg mentions the release of the early stages of the Findory online RSS reader, which is an easy to use, smooth light weight RSS reader…and of course all the recommendation features you come to expect from Findory.

Comes pre-populated with feeds organised into sections…add your own feeds in the my favourites section… once you add three feeds you can click to see top stories in all your favourites feeds in one go (they are presented similar to Rojo, ie. latest posts will be mixed from all feeds, organised by time/date of posting, unlike clicking on a Bloglines folder which shows all posts organised by feed first and, then by time/date).

Mentioned before the great leverage of using a meta-tool like Talkdigger.
Recently the site has been updated so you can generate a meta RSS feed for a URL search or keyword search.

You can choose to create a meta-RSS feed from all services, handy all in one tool…or you can select as you like.

When you subscribe to a feed you usually get the last 10 or so items, feedcatch can change this by creating an archive out of a feed. I suppose if you subscribe to a feed in Bloglines it archives the posts onwards from the moment of subscription…I’m not sure how many it caches, ie. maximum number of posts per feed…but what about past posts.

To see past posts of a feed just alter the feed through feedcatch and you have an archive of all posts, it’s virtually another version of the blog or website that holds all the raw content…you can customise the expiry dates, etc…

See ResearchBuzz for more.

Like Research Buzz mentions, if you do a keyword search on a search engine or use a directory feed, and run it through feedcatch you will have an archived topic index (pass that around to your friends)…so this is moving away from using RSS just for the latest, it is using it to archive topic indexes to share…great new simple application.

mefeedia is an RSS reader for video blogging plus it provides a space to clip and save your favourite items…these items can be tagged and shared in the folksonomy, at this point this tool seems similar to Rojo.

RSS Reader

Find vlogs in the directory and easy subscribe to view in your account…lacks organising feeds into folders.

From the homepage clicking on “watch movies” takes you to your account, this shows the “new videos” within your subscriptions, also click on feeds for a list of your subscribed feeds, clicking on a feed will show all entries…you can also click the link to the directory for more subscriptions…also a link to see “video from all feeds”.

Only think lacking is it shows new videos in your account at the top level, you can’t view new videos by folder (as there are none), as mentioned you can view all videos by feed, but not just the new ones.

Clicking on a title of a post will launch the video…underneath is some text describing the item..your choices are to tag this, blog this (code to cut n’ paste thumbnail icon), leave a comment (on the native site), and quote this (show your chosen excerpt of the video)

…you can’t view a public version of peoples accounts like in Bloglines.

Social bookmarks

Can’t seem to find a page that shows the latest entries (usually on the homepage).

From the home page click “tags” to see your bookmarks or if you are not logged in it will goto the tag cloud of all users.

Every tag has RSS feed notification, also shows related tags, and people who use that tag.

Provides a feed for the latest tags (not latest entries it seems), and a search tag box.

Each bookmark (or movie) shows all tags, but no users…when you click on a tag it goes to the general tag page. Clicking on the feed link takes you to a profile page from the vlog feed directory, or you can click the link to the native vlog.

So each bookmark lacks a link of users who have bookmarked the item, instead you have to select a user from the sidebar (but this only launches you to users who have used this tag, and not users who have bookmarked an item - so it doesn’t go to the micro-level)….also it lacks an RSS feed for a user account, and lacks feeds for tags at the user level.

Also has some code to put in your blog that displays a gallery of thumbnail icons of all you vlog posts, when you make a new vlog it is instantly added to the gallery…so it acts as an archive of your vlog.

On of their blog entries mentions a latest videos feed.

del.icio.us now has recommendations for each user tag.

When viewing one of your tags (must have already bookmarked 10 items) click recommendations…this displays 5 tags from a selection of del.icio.us users that is similar to the content in your tag, it also recommends 5 URL’s that are similar to the URL’s within your tag.

Related URL’s are also recommended in the URL page of a bookmark…so if you go to a bookmark and click on all the people who bookmarked this page, there is a link to show related URL’s.