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Rojo seems to be all things:

RSS Reader
Feed Tag cloud (user-defined)…others are RSSor, or Technorati Blog Finder
Bookmark Tag Cloud (user-defined)

It’s sort of like a combination of Bloglines, del.icio.us, RSSor (or Technorati Blog Finder).

This is what I want, all my favourite tools in one, I won’t switch to something else because of the unique features I like in each tool, and the community base of each tool…I was just re-looking over Rojo’s features and the quality of feeds and content in their user base, and I tell ya, they come pretty close.

I love that I can read a river of news by tag topic (mixed content from several feeds)…I also like the flagged items folder, scriplets…and so much more.

What is lacks

- RSS feeds for each tag/folder that organizes your feeds
(also apply this to the aggregated version of all users)
- Searching full-text within a tag
(at the user level, and the aggregated level)

- RSS feeds for each tag/folder that organizes your stories
(also apply this to the aggregated version of all users)
- Searching full-text within a tag
(at the user level, and the aggregated level)

- Where has the search in an individual feed gone, called a channel?

Anyway, it would be good to once again search in a feed…also in a tag (folder), in all your subscriptions, in all of Rojo (and an RSS feed for each)

- If I could search tags of feeds, or tags of stories from any user, then this would be more than just a Tag Cloud, it would kind of be a folksonomy
…so they need public versions of their user accounts, just like Bloglines.

- Generating search feeds from within Rojo, from all Rojo users, and other services, see BlogBridge.

- Editing features aren’t as good as Bloglines

- Also you have to manually mark a feed “as read”, whereas this happens automatically in Bloglines…also Bloglines has the option to mark a feed “as unread”

- Also Rojo can only show “read and unread” items in one stream, where Bloglines will show it by time intervals (this is a handy feature)

- Notifier for the task bar (system tray), similar to SharpReader.

- A factory version of posting to del.icio.us…also setting it up to post to your blog.

What turned out to be a celebration of Rojo, and what could make it even better, turned into a list of features that could make any RSS Reader more dynamic.

[ADDED 14/10/05: Rojo now offers an RSS feed for your whole account and for evey tag]

Daily RSS is a nifty type of Newsmastering, this site looks very professional.

Firstly here are all the feeds they cover, the content from all these sources are what is populating the content for this site.

Back to the home page, on the left sidebar you can choose a topic; this is possible as most of the sources are from newspapers, which have topic feeds
…eg. Business (also displays the feed for that source)

But it doesn’t show you a mixed stream of posts from all sources on this topic sorted newest to oldest.
You can only see newest to oldest posts on a per feed basis…you have to choose from the drop down menu to select a source
…it would be good to choose a mixed river of news style (and offer an RSS feed for the whole Business topic)

So how is this different than a Blogdigger Group?

Well, the feeds are organized at 2 levels, whereas with Blogdigger Groups the feeds are listed on the sidebar, clicking on one will show you content from just that feed.
DailyRSS has an added first level, where you can first choose the topic, then you can choose a feed, so Blogdigger is missing this first level.

Obviously DailyRSS is totally customized and looks great, but it does lack the search feature of Blogdigger (also generates a feed).

This means it is not too different from a Public Bloglines account as all your feeds can be organized into topics.

Although, when you launch DailyRSS you can see the latest content, as a Blogdigger Group, but the benefit is that you can see the latest content from various topics all on the one page, which you can’t do with Blogdigger Groups or Public Bloglines.

I’ll mention again that is has the same problem as a Public Bloglines account, in that you can’t subscribe to a topic RSS, and you can’t read a river of news by folder/topic, unlike some RSS Readers like Rojo or Newsgator Online, but these don’t have a public version.

But then unlike Feedmarker, both Rojo and Newsgator Online don’t offer an RSS feed for a topic/folder
(Newsgator Online only offers RSS feeds for folder for clipped items)

Just noticed a search box at the top that makes custom feeds, don’t know how this works?

[via CogDogBlog]

[ADDED 14/10/05: Rojo now has RSS for tags, and your whole account]

SurfWax LookAhead–Dynamic Search Navigation for RSS feeds is a search facility which suggests titles (in a alphabetical list) as you type the query…you can link to the native site from the suggestion box.

The other difference is you are only searching in the title element of the RSS feed and not in the body or actual content.

It would be good to separate blog content from traditional news content.

Updates hourly, and keeps the last 7 days worth of posts, and is sorted by date
…it doesn’t mention how many feeds they track.

See here for their marvellous site search service.