FeedDemon. Synchronizing Feeds
Over the last few weeks, I have been reading a lot about what is claimed as the last days of RSS…. With people twittering away and using different ways to stay connected, will this be the end of RSS? I don’t think so and here is why.
1) Most technology enthusiasts who follow news across multiple sources prefer to see a concise list of topics and choose from that, what interests them. RSS has and will remain the simplest way of doing this.
2) On a site content perspective, internet news gets reported across multiple places almost at the same time and in that mad race of who got the post first, RSS is a live scoreboard of who reported it out first.
3) In a rather insane and twisted way, RSS also gives webmasters and content managers, quality control on what is being written. If your number of page visits generated from RSS drops, it means you aren’t writing well enough.
Anyway, the main thing post content is Feed Synchronizing over the internet. With FeedDemon, synchronizing your feeds is a matter of logging in, to your Google account. I have FeedDemon installed on both my office and home computers and all I do is simply synchronize. FeedDemon uses the Google account to act as a backed database of what your subscriptions are and what your feed settings are. More importantly, your read and unread feeds also synchronize. This means, you can start reading of from a particular source, pause while you leave office and reach home and resume directly with the unread feeds without needing to search for the point where you left off.
The other interesting feature is the Panic Button. Last weekend, taking into account laziness, system downtime and being occupied with other activities in my house, my return to office had FeedDemon greeting me with over 9000 and off unread feeds. Obviously that is something I won’t be spending time reading. So, the simple solution is to HIT THE PANIC BUTTON. Select a time frame before which you want to mark out and FeedDemon will mark all feeds before that time line as read. This means you are firstly no longer nagged about all those pending feeds and since they have been synchronized, you still get to go back and browse through them at your own pace.
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