Earl Mardle (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} rlmrdl) wrote,@ 2003-05-05 21:01:00 |
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Latest on My favourite Newsreader
The folks at Awasu continue to do a splendid job of developing their Newsreader. The latest tweaks include some excellent new capabilities.
These guys are doing some great thinking with an exciting new technology. BTW, the paid version is on the way. They'll get my $10 or whatever it is.
The folks at Awasu continue to do a splendid job of developing their Newsreader. The latest tweaks include some excellent new capabilities.
- Rather than collecting feeds as fixed categories, you can now collect them into filtered groups managed by a number of criteria such as unread items or new items. The great benefit is that when you access the filters you only see those feeds in the group that meet your criteria at this moment, much tidier.
- They can also generate Meta channels which re-aggregate content from several feeds into one channel. This is especially useful with the next tool
- Reports. These take the content from the feed and generate output documents hat are simple web pages, but they can be published anywhere on your network. Imagine being able to filter information from multiple sources around your enterprise, collect it according to very specific interest groups and republish on your corporate intranet, or save the file for publication to your own website. Awasu does it.
- The final new kink is even better, Channel Hooks wait till something happens on the specified channel, such as an update, then take the information and send it somewhere else, such as to a window on your desktop, or in an email to a specified recipient.
These guys are doing some great thinking with an exciting new technology. BTW, the paid version is on the way. They'll get my $10 or whatever it is.
