"Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper." Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update. The content is sometimes described as being "pulled" to the subscriber, as opposed to "pushed" with email or IM. Unlike recipients of some "pushed" information, the aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from a feed.
Aggregator features are being built into portal sites such as My Yahoo! and Google; modern web browsers; and e-mail programs.
The aggregator provides a consolidated view of the content in a single browser display or desktop application. Such applications are also referred to as RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators, news readers or search aggregators."
Some of the aggregrators shared at our recent Homegroup meeting were:
Netvibes an all in one page where you can even check the weather. You just personalise it and make it work for you.
If your like me and would like something simpler then you might want to try flock(a free download) which is a search engine like internet explorer or safari and has a aggregrator built in. It is slightly slower than other internet explorers.
Flock
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