Feedpass = RSS Education
May 18th, 2006Randy Charles Morin blogged about Feedpass tonight, so I checked it out. Very neat.
Feedpass creates an alternative page for your feed, with lots of bells and whistles. First, it reminded me of Feedburner, but then I realized it was built for the blog reader and not the blog user. And, they’re not providing third party feeds.
Take a look at my feed in Feedpass. Simple explanations, options on how to receive the content (That whole “different strokes” thing), and lots of good tagging options. Educating people on RSS. Priceless.
Here’s a little blurb from their blog:
“For now, tell your friends in the RSS business that there is a new way to make subscriptions easier than ever for your readers. It’s called feedpass. Just go to feedpass.com and enter your feed URL. Within just a few clicks, you’ll have a powerful one-button subscription tool that gives your users the ability to learn about RSS, preview your content, and subscribe using over 55 different RSS readers, 15 social bookmarking and tagging tools, 4 email distribution tools, and various feed-aware browsers.”
Libraries and librarians: This is the perfect service for you to use on your RSS pages to teach end users about syndication. Education has always been an issue when dealing with this stuff. Feedpass will make it much easier. Yay!