News feed aggregator

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Definition

A news feed aggregator or aggregator or feed reader is a client software or web-based tool used to read RSS, Atom or Rdf files. It's used to check and survey websites' updates and news. What's interesting is that users have not to check a lot of websites searching for updates. A news feed aggregator is a site where the user retrieves information of his preferred websites.

The main advantage is to build a personal newspaper and to gain a lot of time. An old paradigm is included in this new way to reach the information, that is pulled instead of pushed for example with email.

The user can organize its subscribtions: group feeds into folders, delete, move, export in an OPML format (to share its subscriptions with others)...

Educational usages

• see RSS (under Educational usages)

Software

News readers

• Netnewswire (for Mac)
• Feeddemon
• rssOWL
• FeedReader
• NewsFire
• SharpReader
• SauceReader (dead project ?)

Browser extensions

• Wizz RSS News Reader Firefox 1.x - 2.x extension]