All posts tagged: RSS

How Flipboard’s new Surf app lets you merge social feeds, YouTube, and RSS to escape the algorithm – finally

How Flipboard’s new Surf app lets you merge social feeds, YouTube, and RSS to escape the algorithm – finally

Published by skeptic

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Can a new social network make it? Flipboard Surf has a shot. Surf combines social networks with text, video, and audio feeds. Think of Surf as the anti-algorithm, anti-AI-slop social network. I’ll give Flipboard, the once-popular tablet news aggregator site, credit for chutzpah.  Also: A Meta-powered investment scam is spreading across 25 countries – how to spot (and avoid) it After a year in beta, its new Android app and website, Surf, go beyond simple news aggregation to incorporate content from social networking protocols like ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and good old Real Simple Syndication (RSS), enabling you to craft custom feeds blending posts and blogs from social networks such as Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads.  But, wait, there’s more Surf also lets you blend in podcasts and YouTube channels, making it a one-stop shop for your web reading, listening, and viewing. As Mike McCue, Flipboard and Surf’s CEO, explained in a statement, Surf’s mission is to help “podcasters, creators, …

I’ve been missing Google Reader for years — this new RSS app finally came close

I’ve been missing Google Reader for years — this new RSS app finally came close

Published by skeptic

RSS is the best way to keep up on the news, but man, does it feel more like an obligation than a joy. I’ve been an avid RSS user for the past 16 years or so. As a tech news journalist, I’ve got to keep my eye out on the massive amount of news and information across many sources. RSS solves that problem, letting me create lists of outlets and news sources that I can organize into topical lists. Google Reader (launched in 2005) was my favorite platform for managing these lists, but it was shut down by the tech giant in 2013. I’ve been searching for something better ever since. I’ve tried many RSS platforms, like NetNewsWire and Feedly, but they all end up feeling more like managing an inbox than finding out what’s happening in the tech news space. The problem is that with such massive amounts of content coming in, you end up with huge unread counts and overwhelming red notification badges. You end up clicking through stories, not even reading them …

This new RSS reader is the smartest way to keep up online

This new RSS reader is the smartest way to keep up online

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The RSS (Really Simple Syndication) protocol has been giving users a way to keep up with their favorite websites for decades. It essentially presents all the new articles on a specific site in chronological order as they’re published, so you can read through or skip over them as you like. It’s also, by the way, the main way that podcast feeds are published, but it was originally designed to manage web feeds. While RSS isn’t quite as widely used anymore, with social media or newsletters now more commonly used to promote articles on a site, the standard is still appreciated by those who want a simple, clutter-free way of managing their online reading. A simple way to catch up on the internet. Screenshot: Current To use RSS, you need an RSS reader, and Current is one of the latest to appear. Available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, its intention is to let content “flow” like a river. “Engage with …