RSS in your Toolbar
March 5th, 2004E-Week Reports that Infospace was showing off a new toolbar this week which allows users to subscribe to RSS Feeds and read them from within the toolbar. There’s more:
“InfoSpace, likewise, is planning features in its toolbar release to simplify the process for subscribing to XML feeds. A setup feature called “Search Page” will scan an open Web page for RSS or Atom feeds, and then let a user decide whether to add them to the toolbar.”
“To have a feature that sniffs the page to find the feed for you means you don’t have to do anything but point and click,” Grandy said.”
“In future releases, InfoSpace is working on making the scanning for RSS and Atom feeds completely automatic when a user reaches a new Web page.”
This concept is not new. One tool that I can’t live without is RSS Explorer, a neat toolbar that will automatically find an RSS (and Atom) feed from a page and allow users to subscribe to it in numerous aggregators.
Going back to Infospace, the concept of reading RSS Feeds in a toolbar is interesting, but probably not something that would make me give up my aggregator. The scrolling marquee thing just doesn’t work for me. But props to Infospace for playing with RSS. Does anybody know if the Yahoo Toolbar allows you to easily subscribe to feeds in My Yahoo? If not, it should.