Rojo again…
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]
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I got to your place through Rojo. I migrated there only recently from Bloglines, but so far, I’m loving the experience (and the brutally beautiful reddish interface).
Comment by Wan Zafran — September 28, 2005 @ 4:32 pm
I don’t know if it’s a new feature, but you can definitely get RSS feeds for each tag. Just click the tag name on the left so that the main heading is “Recent Stories from [tag]” and the “RSS 1.0″ button is a link to the feed for that tag.
The read and unread behaviour is quite different from Bloglines - Bloglines deals with it per-feed, but because of how Rojo works, it marks individual items read when you expand them (it should probably also do this when you click through on them).
Comment by Phil Wilson — October 13, 2005 @ 2:44 pm