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SimplyHeadlines - an RSS newspaper in your email
by Jason Clarke Sep 20th 2006
If you've been feeling like you really should check out "this RSS thing", but haven't had the time or inclination to do so, maybe SimplyHeadlines will be the thing that turns you around. SimplyHeadlines sends you a once-a-day newspaper with headlines from the sources you want to read, taking their RSS feeds and building a very convincing newspaper document from them. SimplyHeadlines also has a second mode, which is useful for mobile readers like Blackberries - this is a text-only version with no formatting at all.
Like most RSS services, they offer a few selected default feeds, or you can enter any RSS feed you like. For beginner RSS users, this could be a very useful service. For people with more than a hundred feeds to follow, not so much.
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