Megite 2.0 - Your Personal RSS Newspaper
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on December 29, 2006,
Review: Megite RSS aggregator service. The ability to read ALL your feeds on one website everyday.
I find explaining RSS and feeds to a newbie is as confusing and frustrating as explaining what the Internet was to everyone back in 1994. What is it? How does it work? How is it different than a webpage (or back then, using CompuServe?). One of the causes of this confusion is how people read RSS feeds. Some use their browsers (Safari, Firefox and the newest IE all have the ability), others use applications within their browsers (Bloglines, Netvibes, Google Reader) while still others use external applications (FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, etc.). Confusing, isn’t it?
Well Matthew Chen has come up with a great Web 2.0 idea. Why not have all your blogs, news, pictures and videos put together for you in a nice “newspaper-like” webpage you can look at every morning with your breakfast? That’s the idea behind Megite 2.0.
Megite is far more powerful than a simple aggregator. It formats the title, first picture and first few sentences of the entry in a very concise, clean manner. More importantly, it aggregates together similar or related feed entries from YOUR list of watched blogs - not from thousands of other sources ready to bury you under a ton of information.
To get started with Megite is really easy. All you need is an OPML file of all your favourite feeds hosted somewhere on the Internet and send the location of the file to Megite. If the previous sentence is complete Geek Speak for you and you have no idea what an OPML thingamajig is or how to make one, simply send a list of your feeds to Megite and they’ll do the rest. It really is that simple.
Once you start making Megite a part of your morning routine, your Corn Flakes are going to taste a whole lot better in the morning. Give it a try!
