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Blastfeed and the Future of RSS Filtering

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ut we're now at the end of November and really, to be frank, there hasn't been much progress made in the RSS filtering space.

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2or3things told me they're aiming the product at "info-consumers (like yourself) and for the corporate world."

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it has exactly the filtering capability we are talking about here - combine multiple feeds, filter by phrases, tags.... Why I'm writing this - we are already at the moment having nice tools for RSS filtering.

At the same time we are not sleeping either. We have currently in development a special version of Feedreader what can publish smartfeeds (this is our term for feed filtering) to web server, forward by email, forward by instant messaging, let to be accessed by IMAP clients. So you could possibly mix incoming feeds then filter them and finally upload all your smartfeeds to web server for others to subscribe.

Of course I'm talking about desktop application here and this may be irrelevant in the light of latest trends of talking only about online services :). But at the same time my personal viewpoint is that you should not rely too much on (free) online services. Also if you need to manage personal or secure information (also secure feeds) you should think multiple times before adding personal feeds to online service.

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- Club relevant news together
- Display from a source that you have chosen to be as the most important
- Have a mention that other sources for the same information are also available.

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The intent being to allow the community to help build bundles of feeds with the best possible content. (Little known fact: that's actually how I found out about this site!)

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Essentially we try to make it easy (through "feed me" links or a firefox addon) to add content you see in other places to your own custom feed, where you can add your own commentary, videos, or even archive the original article (just in case it's taken down). I think these features set us apart.

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