Web-based feed reader Rojo has been at the periphery of my radar for awhile now, but didn't really "discover" it until today. Like Jason, I'm really getting into it, and fast. It seems like a bit of a cross between del.icio.us, Digg, and a feed reader, but with the emphasis on the latter. Feeds are "river of news" style, but you can tag feeds and individual feed items and surf your tags later on, and there's a "Mojo" feature to promote stories a la Digg. The tags and Mojo give way to a social aspect of the service which shows you popular items from everybody's feeds, optionally filtered by tag.
Anyway, I was a little disappointed that Rojo only reports 274 subscribers to Download Squad's feed. If you read our feed in another reader and are happy with it, by all means stick with it, but if you've been shopping around for a feed reader I suggest giving Rojo a try. I've found that it can be a little sluggish, and some of its features might get in the way of users who want something a little more streamlined, but as a blogger I'm really enjoying it. That said, here's the part where I pimp out our feed and some of our sister sites' feeds with some handy links:
Click on the links to be taken to a handy page on Rojo that will let you add the feed to Rojo or one of several other popular feed readers. In case yours isn't on the list, you can find our raw feed here. I'm gonna be keeping an eye on that subscription number and I'm going to report back in a week and let you know if the number has climbed at all. I'd really love to see it double, but let's go for a 20% increase, okay?














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5-25-2006 @ 4:35AM
Richard said...
I use RSS Bandit (http://www.rssbandit.org/) which does the job perfectly well and doesn't have the risk of suddenly becoming pay-to-use which Roja could.
The only downsides I can think of RSS Bandit is that the default font is terrible (and inconsistent) and it takes an inordinate amount of time to start up. It also uses .net which means that it's a big initial download and uses a fair bit of memory.
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5-25-2006 @ 7:58AM
CheeseBurgerMan said...
I have it setup in Akregator.
I really dont see the point of having a web-based RSS reader...if I'm going to bother opening a browser, then I may as well just go to the site, and not bother with checking RSS feeds. :)
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5-25-2006 @ 8:24AM
Thomas said...
You need more feed options in general. See http://www.twistermc.com/shake/RSS-index.php
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5-25-2006 @ 11:16AM
TomInWestBend said...
Bloglines, the only one I use...
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5-25-2006 @ 4:31PM
collapsibletank said...
www.netvibes.com
I have nothing but praise for this. And I can fit feeds from dozens of sites on one screen!
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5-25-2006 @ 6:12PM
Clint said...
Reading the squad daily through Sage
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5-25-2006 @ 6:44PM
david said...
i use rojo, and agree that it's great (better than bloglines, IMHO, and more mobile than a simple web browser, all with a dash of social networking thrown in to make it oh-so-delicious)... but you should be aware that rojo lists two different DS feeds: http://downloadsquad.com/rss.xml and http://www.downloadsquad.com/rss.xml (which gives you just about the increase you were looking for!)... i wonder if there's a way to fix that?
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5-25-2006 @ 6:50PM
Jordan Running said...
David, when I search for "Download Squad" (or DownloadSquad) on Rojo I only get one feed (the one with the "www."). Can you give me a direct link the the other feed's page on Rojo? (It should be something like rojo.com/?feed-id=######)
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