At SXSW there was a panel entitled ‘Using RSS for Marketing’ (our
coverage here from Sean Ammirati). Mick
Liubinskas, from group communications product Tangler,
left a good comment on our post:
“RSS is a big topic of discussion around Tangler. Obviously we want to
do it, but there’s doing it and there’s doing it well. Options with an RSS
would be interesting and I’d like to see someone do that well.
e.g. Give me everything, or just give we stuff with the word collaboration
in it. Or maybe, give me articles with 50+reads and/or 10+ comments.”
That got me thinking about how many of you currently subscribe to RSS Remix
feeds – i.e. feeds that have been filtered or mashed up with other feeds.
In my reply to Mick’s comment, I said that RSS filtering is still a work in
progress. Yahoo
Pipes is at the geeky end of the spectrum, with
its sophisticated “feed aggregator and manipulator” capabilities.
But it shows where we’re headed with remix feeds. Market leader in feed
management, Feedburner, hasn’t done a
lot with filtering yet. However we’ve
profiled several RSS Remix products recently on R/WW: FeedBlendr,
FeedRinse, FeedDigest
and BlastFeed. Others that have been
mentioned in our comments are macro.scopia
and the interestingly-named Profilactic.
There are many others, I’m sure, but the point of this poll is to ask: are
you using RSS remix feeds yet?
