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Attensa

Found a superb aggregator called Attensa. It's an MS Outlook attachement, and retrieves all my RSS feeds. Finally i dont need to go to blog lines any more.
They referred to another site called Del.icio.us. This site is a primitive manner of storing you bookmarks online, tagging etc. Sounded interesting, need to play around lots more.

As for Attensa. Serious suggestion... download it, if you have Outlook installed.

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Rakesh Pai said…
I've been using del.icio.us for quite some time (my links), and I find it immensely useful. For example, you can use one of the del.icio.us javascript favelets to to create bookmarks as you surf the web, and then use the personal RSS feeds from del.icio.us to create a list of recently updated links on your website, all without doing any manual updates to your site!

Del.icio.us only looks primitive (and that's probably because it is in pre-alpha stage), but looks are obviously deceptive. It is immensely powerful. Besides, why should I store my bookmarks in my browser when I can save them on the web and access it anywhere, while keeping it better organized and easier to search through?

I'd normally have been happy to use Attensa, but it runs on Outlook, and Outlook has those two dreaded letters before it's name.
9/29/2005 11:43 PM
Sachin Nayak said…
He he. The two dreaded letters before the "Outlook" is the company which brought out the OS you are currently using, I guess.

As for looks, that of course is secondary. But Del.icio.us will and is being targetted to persons who utilze the internet for fun more than the geeks. So i guess they'll soon be looking into it. And just guessing, maybe Google will buy it after that :D, considering that it will help a search engine understand a persons' interests and inter-relating them...u know what i mean or maybe start.com will buy it.
9/30/2005 9:16 AM
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