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Feedscrub is like a spam filter for your RSS feeds
Just because you subscribe to an RSS feed doesn't mean you want to read every single thing in that feed. What if you read Download Squad just for Brad Linder's posts, or you're only interested in posts about Google? FeedScrub might be what you're looking for. It lets you vote each of your RSS articles up or down, training it to only display the stuff you care about. You then subscribe to the scrubbed feed in your reader, and you're good to go.Where FeedScrub gets things right is at the bottom of each item in the scrubbed feed, where they've put in buttons so you can train FeedScrub directly from your reader. Where it gets things wrong -- but only a little bit -- is by giving you one set of preferences for all of your subscriptions, instead of letting you export them as separate scrubbed feeds. I'd like to break my unread count down by individual feed, not aggregate it into one scrubbed one.
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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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JC Francois said 11:37AM on 2-06-2009
The ultimate tool for feed manipulation is clearly Yahoo! Pipes
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
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Tim Dorr said 11:50AM on 2-06-2009
Another co-founder here. Pipes has it's purpose and does some really cool things. But we're not going for simply feed manipulation here. We have a specific product that learns and grows as you use it. It's actually a lot different than Pipes (although, we have some Pipes-like features in development). Plus, it's a whole lot easier to use :)
Jason Ardell said 11:39AM on 2-06-2009
Feedscrub co-founder here. Thanks, Download Squad, for covering us!
I've activated 50 "downloadsquad" invite codes for Download Squad readers. Hurry, they'll be gone soon!
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