With News Aggregators Do We Need A Newspaper?
May 12, 2009Well to be honest, I don’t quite remember the last time I sat and read the newspaper seriously. Frankly with news aggregators you can pretty much get what you want the way you want it. The most basic and easy to use of them all is iGoogle. Yahoo Pipes is an excellent product to monitor news, blogs features etc… though I am not fascinated by the interface and useability of the tool. I have actually used pipes to filter news and publish it through RSS feeds. But it’s not very consistent and there’s always some issue or the other.
The other interesting aggregator which seems to be the mother of it all is Popurls. If you have not signed up for this yet you should. It manages to pick the latest on the web through news, bookmarks, images, videos etc… It’s really a good resource to gather the information you want and share it.
Popurl.com The news aggregator
Apart from this Popurl also has a network where you can explore a lot of interesting stuff like buzz monitoring through popurl search, the top viewed urls through popurl.tv and take it to your mobile, iPhone and BlackBerry through Popurl.mobi. Check it out and let me know if we really need newspapers anymore 
