FeedMySearch is a new Web utility that powered by Google. In using it, it will syndicate Web content based on your search terms, rather than the RSS writings such as blogs, journals that you’ve subscribed to. To use FeedMySearch, you just need to type the keywords that you’d like to search on Google, and FeedMySearch will turn your Web search on Google into an RSS search. From the keyword search, you can further filter it based on the format you like, in the forms of Web search, blog search, image search, etc.

To save your time at your convenience, FeedMySearch will generate a list of ten (10) search results, and you can save and subscribe it through one of the Web-based feed readers that powered by Add to Any. The next time this search term has a new update, it will automatically appeared on your feed reader you’re using it all the time. Despite the popularity of RSS received a somewhat chaotic inception, RSS continue to become pervasive in the end-user market. What fueled the popularity of RSS is not only the feeds one subscribed can be delivered to her own feed reader whenever there is a new update found, but additional features such as descriptions, images, videos are incorporated into the feeds. Apparently, you also can find all these images, videos, if any on your RSS feeds that generated by FeedMySearch.

FeedMySearch currently in public beta. Anyone can use it without applying for an account.

The other day I came across a new Twitter third-party application called Easy Tweets. Easy Tweets has a lot of useful built-in services for existing Twitter users. It seemed the team behind it has saw a lot of opportunity in improving Twitter by develop a truly useful features such as multiple Twitter accounts management, tweets scheduling, “Replies” tab shown on the account as well as RSS feeds addition.

Meanwhile, I see the competition has been heat up not only from micro blogging phenoms such as Twitter and FriendFeed, but also from the third-party Twitter app, like Matt and twhirl, that offered multiple Twitter account login features.

Nevertheless, Easy Tweets is currently in private beta phase, to use it you have to apply for an account from them.

Social Oyster is a tool that allowed users to share their Web activities to their friends. In order to use the functionality rendered by Social Oyster, you need to register an account with them which they called it “Your Oysterpass.” Upon you sign-up with them, you can fill-up Your Oysterpass, in other word, your profile completely with all the fields such as your favorite, your business URL, etc. Besides, they allowed you to embed your profile to your Website or blog through a one-click button called Oysterbutton. On Social Oyster, you’ll find that all the features are labeled with the word Oyster, and I only can decipher about its offering after playing with it for a couple of minutes.

Meanwhile, I believed Social Oyster is a FriendFeed (I will profile this startup in later stage) clone. Though it remains coy as it won’t say what is its ambition and which services it intends to provide in the near future on its Web site, but from the “OysterLine”, you can easily aggregate your Web activities as well as able to find out all your friends’ recent activities from this particular page. In addition, Social Oyster also build a “Public Oysterline” page which allowed users to see all the Social Oyster users’ activities in a real-time basis. The Oysterline is an ajax-realtime-reader, click on the item will bring you to that page, regardless it is aggregated from Flickr, YouTube, or del.icio.us, etc.

Social Oyster hasn’t proved that it can do well in the RSS aggregation at this moment, as I aggregate my Twitter activities to this Social Oyster, all the links appeared to be a long text, not the URL link that I expected. However, Social Oyster is seeking to offer its users a new means of searching user profile on the Web with the launched of a social search engine, users can type an username to conduct a profile search as well as use the “places” to find users in their neighborhoods.

Sweetcron is a new open source software that helped one to create a self-hosted lifestream service. Currently developed in Japan and in Alpha phase, it probably will be released soon by its creator, i.e. a php programmer called Yongfook.

At this moment, very little information about this newly open source software, but the front page of Sweetcron stated that it will be an open source RSS aggregator, with a bunch of php source files that one can easily debug and improve from it, and of course, a default CSS theme readily offered to the users. Since it is an open source software which you can self-host it with your own domain, it also mean that you need to configure the update yourself.

Swurl is a new lifestream service that can pull your latest activities from nineteen (currently supported up to 19) Web services into a blog-like format profile page. Upon you sign-up to this Swurl, you can straight away start to aggregate all of your online activities, even they didn’t require you to check your email for email verification. Playing around Swurl know that it play an important role in displaying all of an user’s Web life in a more systematically way and without any doubt, I think they’re in the middle in prospecting the bloggers that run their personal blogs with a focus on the personal life.

Since Swurl is relatively new on the Web, but they capture the opportunities not only supported pictures (Flickr), social network (Facebook), link (Digg), blog (wordpress), video (Youtube), review (Yelp), but they also supported the new frontier of social media such as FriendFeed. What is the main difference you can find on Swurl is the design, a blog-like format, with all the comments are systematically integrate to the user’s profile page. Although the first impression of Swurl profile remind me a lot of my previous blog theme, K2, but you can easily change the heading of the profile so that it suit your online identity. In many instances, social media aggregator like Swurl will help users to pull information through RSS feeds, but you’ll find it useful when you know the information obtained is usable.

One of the built-in features I think is very interesting is the “Timeline” view. From the Timeline view, I knew that I’m not everyday engaging on the Web, I’ve my off-Web real life too. However, the only thing I didn’t like is all the feed entries appeared on the Timeline have been reformatted to the Swurl URL link.

For the Web developers, there is an API of Swurl for them.

If you’re like me constantly tracking the buzz in the blogosphere, and subscribed to more than hundred of RSS feeds, please check out this tool, i.e. AideRSS. It is a free tool for an user to further filter the RSS feeds she subscribed.

AideRSS, with a motto of “read what matters,” you probably well expect its main feature, but some of its functionality offered may well beyond its original design goals. At first, I thought AideRSS will let me analyze some of the blogs I like, and know more about their blogging habits, and ultimately learn about which post is the most talkable in the blogosphere. However, I didn’t know beside the performance tracking feature, AideRSS can provide users the ability to filter or sort out their feeds in a manner that somewhat will fuel the explosive growth of quality blogs out there. If you always feel that your RSS feeds you subscribed are too many, you want to reclaim your time, I think AideRSS is not suitable for you. This is your problem, you’ve subscribed too many feeds that you aren’t manage. But if you’re looking for the convenience of quality time to read quality posts posted by your favorite blogs, AideRSS is for you.

AideRSS is using an algorithm called PostRank, to rank the acceptability of a blog post by measure its comments, or conversation happened in the blogosphere. It processes any feed you entered into their search bar in the categorization of good posts, great posts, best posts, and top 20. Of course, the famous and top blogs will always had the privilege and heritage. In order to filter the great posts of your favorite blogs, you can add all those great posts to your feeds in your AideRSS account, or subscribe it to your own feed reader. Those great posts will be delivered to your feed reader in your computer desktop directly from AideRSS. The smaller number of the feeds appeared from your favorite blogs will make you feel that you’re more in control when notice the volume of the feeds you subscribed have been reduce tremendously.

Currently, AideRSS is well integrated with Twitter and supports OpenID. Besides, they also developing a Firefox extension for Google Reader (in private beta) as well as allowed bloggers to published their AideRSS top stories widgets to their blogs.

Alltop, a site that syndicating Web content for the sake of the readers has officially launched on the Web. It is inevitably that Web users will go to that site and have a glance on it, particularly it was a second Web projects of Guy Kawasaki, an Internet entrepreneur after his recent venture, i.e. Truemors. On Truemors, you’ll find a line that announced the launched of Alltop, as they said “Please visit the Truemors’ sister site, Alltop. It’s a collection of “all the top” stories for all the top topics.”

In contrast to Truemors, Alltop is a site that presents different layout as well as different vision. It is not a gossip site, granted users to post gossip, stories or interesting rumor. It is a news aggregation site by taking advantage of the XML-based format, the RSS. As listed on the recent blog post of Guy Kawasaki, “For many, Alltop will replace their RSS readers.” said Chris Shipley, the chairman of Guidewire Group and executive producer of DEMO. They’re targeting the Internet users who never use feed readers, subscribe to others’ blogs, or a custom site. Nevertheless, I can see that they’re also targeting the Internet users that actively reading feeds everyday, as Alltop will list the several selected top stories from the top publications or blogs. They advocating that it’s better to visit their site rather than go through all the feeds one after another.

As a blogger writing this post and also a loyal Internet users that subscribe to a lot of feeds. I always feel that the feeds that I subscribed, more than three hundred is not the number that I capable to manage. However, all those feeds that I subscribed have been carefully chosen by me. I like to read these group of authors’ thoughts, and indeed, I think I like them also. Therefore, I believe the increased number of news aggregation sites will not diminish the potential growth of feed reader softwares.

A popular client-side RSS reader software package FeedDemon is now offered as free download. If you not aware of this product, FeedDemon is a product developed by NewsGator, as offered as a paid-subscription software for $30 a year before it was introduced as a free product in this version 2.6. Not only this FeedDemon, NewsGator also offered its other consumer products at no cost, in their blog, they announced that they’ve made their popular NetNewsWire 3.1 for Mac users and Inbox 3.0 beta for the Outlook user without no charge at last.

RSS reader, also known as news reader, or feeds reader, whatever you called it, mostly released as a standalone software package that provide users to retrieve content from the RSS feeds on the Internet, primarily from blogs. If you like to read blogs, it will help you to update all the blog feeds you subscribed in a click or through its own pre-adjusted time. Thus, you can get a fast glance of the blogs’ headings as well as content without having to type the URL or visit the favorite blogs you like.

This release version of FeedDemon came with few very cool features:

- Panic Button: detects when you have a ton of unread items and offers to mark them (or a subset of them) as read
- Significant performance improvements
- Redesigned newspaper UI
- Significant improvements to offline reading support, including redesigned “prefetching” of feeds
- Inline page search
- Attention reporting/APML export

Download and enjoy.