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News Discovery and Topic Monitoring: The Protopage RSS Reader and Start Page

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From www.protopage.com - August 27, 2012 3:01 AM

Robin Good: Protopage is a free web service which allows you to easily monitor any keyword, hashtag, topic, RSS feed (and OPML files too) or web site on a custom, personalized private web page.

You can add as many "search" and monitoring widgets to your page and create multiple tabs to monitor and check different topics without creating excessive clutter.

 

Widgets can contain dozen of different information objects besides searches, including video feeds, news, audio podcasts, bookmarks, maps, and a lot more. Check all the widgets you can add here: http://i.imgur.com/BseEu.jpg

 

Try it out now: http://www.protopage.com/

 

 


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Robin Good's comment, August 27, 2012 7:29 AM
Hi MrStock, I fundamentally agree that the UI of Protopage is not something to brag about, but what I am interested in is the functionality that it offers, not its looks. POPurls, may be subjectively cooler, but it has no options to customize its news blocks, no way of specifying persistent searches, no way of adding RSS feeds and none of the tens of widgets Protopage offers. So, I humbly think that the two are significantly different and can hardly be compared.
Michael Cerda's comment September 6, 2012 9:46 AM
Protopage works as a replacement for igoogle. Between the bookmark list, embedded code widget and the web page widget you can do almost anything igoogle did. The thing to note that has bothered me the most is that after a couple of months of use advertisements appeared on the page. You can get rid of them for $2.50 a month. That is more than I would pay. $1 a month, sure. The other real problem is that there doesn't appear to be any way to communicate with the company. There is no publicly accessible forum and no email contact. Protopage is not the prettiest but it can work.
Robin Good's comment, September 6, 2012 11:59 AM
Thank you Michael for sharing this info. Very useful.
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News Discovery Tools: The RSS Feed Search Engine

News Discovery Tools: The RSS Feed Search Engine | Moodle and Web 2.0 | Scoop.it
From ctrlq.org - July 26, 2012 5:44 AM

Robin Good: If you are looking for new RSS feeds of quality news sources to curate your own newsradar, the RSS Search Engine by Digital Inspiration may come to the rescue.

This free and easy to use RSS search engine, makes it very easy to search for your preferred keywords-keyphrases and it spits out instantly a selection of ten RSS feeds covering, at least in part, that very topic.

 

From the official site: "The RSS search engine will help you discover the most popular feeds on the web around your favorite topics. You may find blogs, news websites, podcasts, Twitter accounts and more."

Try it out now: http://ctrlq.org/rss/  ;

 

 


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