Mobile Internet aggregator Mobispine AB has acquired Web based feed reader NewsAlloy. The acquisition seems to be aimed at providing users a seamless product that can be viewed both on the mobile phones and PCs.
Acquisition is an interesting word. Often we hear mergers and acquisition. But when one hears the word acquisition it has very different meaning. Merger means the joining of two or more companies while acquisition means the purchase of one company by another.
Nothing negative really. It just implies the direction the two companies are going to take. And
Mobispine, which now has 300,000 plus active mobile users per …read more

In terms of getting blogs with quality content? In fact how does any RSS aggregator do it. One can explain the latest feature that is empowered with the snazziest software application or GUI, Or how the confluence of the number of text in the first two or three paragraphs would determine the importance and even the tag of a post. But how do you select?
This has been one of the most intriguing questions that can be asked when the term quality comes in. And quality at the end of the day is decided not by a software application or …read more

Tired of information overload or tired swimming the river of information? Need professional help?
Here is one way of trimming information overload. Use
Filtrbox a business that will filter the river of information for you.
Filtrbox allows the customer to do the following:
1. Add Keyword or Google Alerts to the search. So that you can filter out the noise.
2. Collaborate, share, and give feedback to get the specific results desired.
3. Create custom RSS feeds using contents found
4. Cull feeds that you barely read
How does it work? According to FiltrBox:

Filtrbox is based on intelligent persistent search …read more

Do you want another reason for using Netvibes? Could Google search be one of them. If it is then its your lucky day because it just happened. Came across this bit of news as I was reading the feeds and saw the post from Readburner. What does this mean?
Netvibes citizens can now do Google Search with the NetVibes Universe. This makes life simpler. And I guess in the growing world of information and information pollution this is a welcome development.
Read the Netvibes post about the integration of search into Netvibes here, Netvibes now fully integrated with Google Search.
It …read more

Are you one of the fortunate 100s who tried Regator’s services? Lucky … because you can test it and tell Johnny Q Public how it actually performs. Regator is a blog feed aggregator that claim to provide a different and more quality read experience. [Soure]
While a lot of aggregators out there hype their focus on number of feeds from blogs and other websites. Regator seems to have taken a different tack by doing a few things different:
1. Focusing mostly on blogs.
2. Selecting the blogs that will be included in the aggregator
3. Setting-up an easy interface for the punters.
What does …read more

I have been hearing about RSS Bandit for some time now. It is the sort of thing you read about it as one swims across the hundreds of RSS posts everyday. And no wonder it has undergone around ten releases.
RSS Bandit is an desktop based RSS Reader written within the .Net Framework.
What does RSS Bandit do?
- It lets the user view news items in newspaper view
- It synchronizes and updates read/unread status across multiple computers
- It deletes expired items after a certain amount of days
- It can Control how often items are downloaded
- It has support for password …read more

This is a nice one and so easy to use. Ajax Dynamic Feed Control from Google lets you place a number of feeds on your blog or website. And is all done in three easy steps:
1. Pick a style and a name for your display
One can choose from vertical, vertical stacked and horizontal display. The name for the display is up to you: One can name it my other blogs or those that cannot be mentioned but are here. It is for the punter to choose.
2. Type in a feed expression
Feed expressions could be tags, categories or more …read more

A lot it seems. Louis Gray chronicles it here. A run down of what the new management, Drew Olanoff, Thomas Connors and Adam Ostrow, is doing is nothing short of impressive.
Consider the following things done or implemented or introduced:
1. A new site interface
2. a breaking news page
3. a Breaking news feed on Twitter
4. a ReadBurner weekly podcast.
5. and support for Netvibes.
6. Widgets
Read the post.
What is interesting is that the competition seems to be heating up with RSSmeme.
And its a good thing because the good features/service comes out faster. As the rivals try to out do or one up the …read more

Over at the Inquistr there is a post that helps you set up more tabs on your FriendFeed. The post is Turn FriendFeed Into Your Start Page With These Greasemonkey Scripts and it seems to have been written by Duncan Riley. The post talks about how the author/blogger/writer was able use and hack of the Greasemonkey script FriendFeed tabs and use it to add other services tabs:
ReadBurner
Plurk
Twitter
Google Reader
Netvibes
Facebook
Techmeme
I highly recommend you read this article. It is a way to enhance your FriendFeed or add more information – ie more information overload>

It looks like Netvibes: It has the look of it though. But then again it is not. FeedzZ describes itself as a social news aggregator with semantic features ie it has learning features – It is a news aggregator that automatically or manually can be customized to suite the taste of its owner.
The service is available in Spanish and US English. Its an on-line news aggregator that can be used without registering. But to register with minimum fuss has its benefits:
1. In order to subscribe to a new feed one has to be registered.
2. To mark an entry …read more