Simian Design

August 10, 2004

You know what I want?

You know what I want? I want an easy, transferrable aggregation service. I have NewsGator at work. Love it. Get my feeds right in my email, it's great.

Until I get home. No matter what program I use it's going to think every site I visited today is new. There is no transferrance.

I want an aggregator that has a centralized service. I want the feeds I read at work (well, at any other machine) to have state. So when I come home, I can pick up my feeds where I left off.

Now I'm sure that one of two things are true.

1. This is already a reality, and I'm just stupid/ignorant of the service/program
2. This is a very tough thing to do, the reasons of which go over my puny head.

Because, to me, this would be a killer app. So here is my call to the Lazy Web. If it's item one above, tell me the name of the product/service. If it's two, well, tell me why while you pretend I'm smart and understand you.

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Posted at 08:51 PM

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John C

One quick question, Not to sound too much like a salesman (even though I am the Director of Sales), have you tried NewsGator Online Services? http://services.newsgator.com ? This is a web based version of NewsGator that can synchronize all of your subscriptions and better yet you can designate which subscriptions you want to go to which machine, or even mobile device. Including a TV equipped with Windows Media Center. Oh yeah and the custom keyword subscriptions are invaluable.

Posted by: John C | August 11, 2004 02:35 AM

Tony

I'll have to look at that. That's sounds pretty much what I'm looking for. I'll go look at that today.

Posted by: Tony | August 11, 2004 06:01 AM

smg

You may want to give bloglines.com a try. It's free and it does enough for me.

Posted by: smg | August 11, 2004 07:56 AM

jv

From one Malleteer to another, Bloglines.com is a must.

Posted by: jv | August 11, 2004 10:54 AM

Tony

Well, I've been using BlogLines, and it's not bad. The interface is a little kludgy, but I'll get over that. It does do the core feature I need, which is track my state. And it's free.

Posted by: Tony | August 12, 2004 11:07 AM