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Indeed, RSS is one of the best source to get information from. I use Firefox 2 with the link bar “full” of RSS feed links that list all the latest news about many ASP.net technical websites, news, Punto Informatico, etc… I’ve found this very useful to collect the information and let them browseable directly from the browser.

Posted by Franz on 21 December 2006 @ 8am

I have never loved using RSS feeds from the browser. Having a dedicated RSS reader simplify the things, makes it easier to group everything together.
But the fact still remain the same: Are RSS a vital part of the Web 2.0 or are they limiting the (active) social networking activity?

Posted by Carlo on 21 December 2006 @ 9am

I use NetNewsWire Lite: it is a very practical tool. On the other side there are some blog (this blog for example) that I visit -everyday- even if I have read new posts in my RSS reader. It is a good (and agreeable) habit…
B.

PS: In order “to constrain” my readers to pass from my blog I use cut the rss informations… but seeing the counter, I must admit my… defeat. :S

Posted by Biagio on 21 December 2006 @ 9am

nah, I will always prefer visit websites rathen than use rss :-)

Posted by frank on 21 December 2006 @ 10am

umm, so shouldn’t RSS be a source used to get fast “feeds” from a XML source ? well, I always navigate to the website to see the “true” page about it, I just meant about having a list cascading from a RSS link, with fast titles to browse such Firefox or IE let you do. Think I didn’t write fair enough :)
That said, I think that RSS might be a good part of Web 2.0 if managed correctly at the source.
Franz

Posted by Franz on 21 December 2006 @ 10am

Franz,
RSS are what you have said indeed. Obviously the discussion is about the quality of the contents in their environment.

Posted by Carlo on 21 December 2006 @ 11am

Hi, it’s me again :)
I’m going to design a asp.net 2.0 application (it will be called “Blogzine”) in the next couple of months and I would like to develop this as WEB 2.0 “compliant“. I’ve got some ideas, expecially about RSS, visibility, personalizations and themes. I think that a “news” feeder source shouldn’t contain a static kind of news, and it should export only some keywords about the news’ content. I’m going to give readers the chance to select and create their own personalized news’ sources and style of presentation.
These are similiar to the concepts of WebParts, Profile Personalizations and Themes came out with ASP.net 2.0. They can sort, choose, discard, filter and select the feed or contents and have more than one view at the same time (working alwasy on the same data). I believe that we should also think about how to display contents over than the content itself. Could the way to display and choose contents be a WEB 2.0 pillar ? The problem is that WEB 2.0 is not fairly defined. or Am I wrong ? In this way the content won’t be a problem at all and you will be ablo to decide “what” to get and “how” to get.
Franz

Posted by Franz on 21 December 2006 @ 12pm

Well… my personal feeling is, I’ve been using RSS bookmarks in Safari and Firefox to quickly scan headlines and then visit the article if the headline is interesing (on the actual site). I don’t read the whole article in an RSS reader - I prefer to look at the article on the originating site. Especially if there are comments I want to read, too.

Posted by Webomatica on 26 December 2006 @ 12am