Feedshake remixes your RSS feeds
Every RSS reader I try has problems. Probably because I’ve got a zillion feeds. So how do you consolidate? And once you’ve consolidated all those feeds, wouldn’t it be nice to filter your feeds? Let’s say I only want to see Google-related stories on BoingBoing, or KDE stories on Slashdot… Enter Feedshake, a free (beta) service that’ll remix, filter, and sort your feeds based on your input.
I tried the basic service, which doesn’t require registration. Just add all the feeds (RSS only, although podcasts are supported) you want in one field, then proceed to set up any filters (keywords), sorting (by date), and limit the number of items delivered at once. You wind up with one URL to put into your feed reading app, but that one URL rolls your feeds into one big feed. Pretty snazzy, and saved me a lot of real estate and mousing around.
Even better is the registered section, or "advanced" version. Still free, but you’ll have to create a password. Once you’re inside you can customize even more, including custom tags, titles, and descriptions. It’s a nice way to organize everything so you get just what you want, when you want it. You can always go back and edit your settings and feeds this way as well. Looks like I’m going to be playing around with this all afternoon.
I’ll say it now: I want my DTV! Unfortunately it isn’t quite ready for prime-time yet… You have to keep in mind this is a beta, and it’s just build 1, so cut ‘em some slack. However, there is great promise in there, and I’m a patient man when it comes to internet TV. Or as I call it, the democratization of media.
