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RSS Aggregators

I think I may have asked this before but here we go again. Anyone have any suggestions for a good, server-side RSS aggregator? I have been using Bloglines for quite a while but I think I would like something different.

I have toyed with the idea of writing my own but for right now I don’t have the time.

I found TT-RSS today and may give it a try.

I also use rss2email a bit as well.

What would I like in an aggregator?

  • Some sort of spam filtering. Not exactly spam I guess, I want it to learn what I like to read. My thought was some sort fo Bayes filter that would at the very least allow me to say ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ to a particular post. Ultimately I would like to be able to have more choices than that, maybe a 1-5 or 1-10 scale I can give a post and then future (once the bayes filter is trained) it would put all of the highest ranked articles at the top and so forth.
  • Automatically updating. I don’t want to have to refresh my page to see if there are any new articles. They should just show up.
  • AJAX goodness. I like AJAX, sure it is probably just a fad. Who knows. Make it ‘cool’ enough that I want to use it as opposed to using it just because it is convienient.
  • It should degrade gracefully. I know that would kill the AJAX stuff but if I want to use it in lynx I should be able to.
  • Plugin system. I would like to be able to add/write plugins for the aggregator. You know, like a ‘Post this to del.icio.us‘ or ‘Email this article’ type things. I realize things like Greasemonkey will allow me to do this, however, none of those are truly cross platform.

There are probably even more things that I am not thinking of at the moment. At any rate, if you have any suggestions that would be great.

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