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Fastbuzz News - RSS News Feed Reader
Fastbuzz News - RSS News Feed Reader
Heinz Tschabitscher
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Fastbuzz News - RSS News Feed Reader

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The Bottom Line

Fastbuzz News lets you read RSS feeds in any browser anywhere with comfort and considerable power (you can subscribe to searches, for example), too. Fastbuzz News lacks some features — folders and flagging, for example —, though, and doesn't feel fully refined. Fastbuzz News is no longer available.
Pros
  • Fastbuzz News is easily and universally accessible with a web-based interface
  • Lets you subscribe to RSS feed search results
  • Fastbuzz News can send you news items via email
Cons
  • Fastbuzz News lacks folders to organize your feeds
  • You can't flag or bookmark individual items
  • News item display can't be customized in Fastbuzz News

Description

  • Fastbuzz News is a web-based RSS feed reader and news/blog aggregator.
  • In addition to individual feeds, you can subscribe to search results in the Fastbuzz News index.
  • Fastbuzz News can send new articles from subscribed feeds by email periodically.
  • You can also send email notifications about articles to friends and colleagues easily from Fastbuzz.
  • Fastbuzz News imports subscriptions from OPML files and exports to this format, too.

Guide Review - Fastbuzz News - RSS News Feed Reader

Web-based RSS reading services like Fastbuzz News have a lot going for them: they're always online and aggregating news even when your computer is off, they are resource-friendly because the service needs to check the feed only once for all users, they allow you to use collaboration (providing a list of popular feeds, for example) and they are universally accessible.

Yet, there's always the suspicion that web-based applications lack in power, comfort and speed. For Fastbuzz News, this isn't true, at least not in general.

Fastbuzz News is fast and efficient to use (you even get keyboard shortcuts), you can search all indexed blogs and feeds and even subscribe to the search results, and Fastbuzz News can send you new items via email periodically so you don't even have to (remember to) use the web interface.

While the option to selectively mark individual items read or unread, a flexible system of flags or bookmarks would be more efficient, and Fastbuzz News doesn't allow you to organize your hundreds of news sources in folders.

Browsing news and blogs in Fastbuzz News' clever interface is a joy, though, and the email-article tool makes it easy to share, too.
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