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Group Test: News Aggregators - News in views. Davey Winder evaluates some of the tools required to exploit the benefits of RSS, including news aggregators that collect, manage and display feed data, and RSS feed creation software that lets you edit, manage and publish your own feeds.(Product/Service Evaluation)

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RSS is quietly revolutionising the web, summarising site content for distribution and viewing in any format. Any data source that is made available in RSS format can be viewed by any RSS-aware application, and this data is "pushed" to the user who gets the benefit of freshly updated content without having to trawl the web for it.

Unfortunately, the stumbling blocks of steep learning curves for both content readers and content creators have tended to drive away the people who should benefit from this kind of tightly focussed, timely and spam/virus-free information distribution and retrieval system.

Luckily, all that is changing, and changing fast. Not only ...

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