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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Main page Contents This article needs additional citations for verification. Featured content Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable Current events sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and Random article Donate to Wikipedia removed. (September 2009) Wikipedia store In , a news aggregator, Interaction also termed a feed aggregator, feed Help reader, news reader, RSS reader or About Wikipedia simply aggregator, is Community portal or a which Recent changes Contact page aggregates syndicated web content such as online , , Tools , and video blogs () in What links here Related changes one location for easy viewing. of the feed reader Tiny Tiny RSS file Contents [hide] Special pages Permanent link 1 Function Page information 2 Types Wikidata item 2.1 News aggregation Cite this page 2.2 Web-based feed readers

Print/export 2.3 Feed reader applications Create a book 3 Media aggregators Download as PDF 4 Printable version 5 Feed filtering 6 also Languages 7 References العربية 8 External links Български Català Dansk Deutsch Function [ edit ] Eesti Visiting many separate websites frequently to find out if content on the site has been updated Español can take a long time. Aggregation technology helps to consolidate many websites into one Euskara page that can show the new or updated information from many sites. Aggregators reduce the فارسی Français time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates, creating a unique information 한국어 space or personal . Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update. The content is sometimes

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Bahasa Indonesia described as being pulled to the subscriber, as opposed to pushed with or IM. Unlike Italiano recipients of some push information, the aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from a feed. Latviešu Aggregation features are frequently built into sites, in the web browsers themselves,

Nederlands in email applications or in designed specifically for reading feeds. The 日本語 aggregator provides a consolidated view of the content in one browser display or desktop Polski application. Aggregators with podcasting capabilities can automatically download media files, Português such as MP3 recordings. In some cases, these can be automatically loaded onto portable Русский media players (like ) when they are connected to the end-user's computer. Српски / srpski Svenska By 2011, so-called RSS-narrators appeared, which aggregated text-only news feeds, and ไทย converted them into audio recordings for offline listening. The syndicated content an aggregator Türkçe will retrieve and interpret is usually supplied in the form of RSS or other XML-formatted data, Українська such as RDF/XML or . Tiếng Việt 中文 Edit links Types [ edit ] The variety of software applications and components that are available to collect, format, translate, and republish XML feeds is a testament to the flexibility of the format and has shown the usefulness of presentation-independent data.

News aggregation websites [ edit ]

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Examples of this sort of are News, Drudge Report, CityFALCON, Huffington Post, Zero Hedge, [1] Newslookup, Newsvine, World News (WN) Network, and Daily Beast where aggregation is entirely automatic, using algorithms which carry out contextual analysis and group similar stories together, while other sites supplement automatically- aggregated stories with manually curated headlines and their own articles.[2]

News aggregation websites began with content selected and entered by humans, while automated selection algorithms were eventually developed to fill the content from a range of either automatically selected or manually added sources. launched in 2002 using automated story selection, but humans could add sources to its , while the older Yahoo News, as of 2005, used a combination of automated news crawlers and human editors.[3][4][5]

Web-based feed readers [ edit ]

Web-based feeds readers allow users to find a on the and add it to their feed reader. Online feed readers include , , News Feed, Feedspot, FeedRover , , , , My Yahoo!, NewsBlur,[6][7] and . These are meant for personal use and are hosted on remote servers. Because the application is available via the web, it can be accessed anywhere by a user with an internet connection.

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More advanced methods of aggregating feeds are provided via coding techniques and XML components called web widgets. Ranging from full-fledged applications to small fragments of source code that can be integrated into larger programs, they allow users to aggregate OPML files, email services, documents, or feeds into one interface. Many customizable homepage and portal implementations provide such functionality.

In addition to aggregator services mainly for individual use, there are web applications that can be used to aggregate several blogs into one. One such variety—called sites—are used by online communities to aggregate community blogs in a centralized location. They are named after the Planet aggregator, a application designed for this purpose.

Feed reader applications [ edit ] Main article: Comparison of feed aggregators

Feed aggregation applications are installed on a PC, or and designed to collect news and interest feed subscriptions and group them together using a user- friendly interface. The graphical user interface of such applications often closely resembles that of popular e-mail clients, using a three-panel composition in which subscriptions are grouped in a frame on the left, and individual entries are browsed, selected, and read in frames on the right. Some notable examples include NetNewsWire, Flipboard, , and Zite.[8][9]

Software aggregators can also take the form of news tickers which scroll feeds like ticker tape, alerters that display updates in windows as they are refreshed, macro tools or as smaller components (sometimes called plugins or extensions), which can integrate feeds into the or software applications such as a web browser. Clients applications include Mozilla , Office Outlook, iTunes, FeedDemon and many others.

Media aggregators [ edit ]

Media aggregators are sometimes referred to as podcatchers due to the popularity of the term used to refer to a web feed containing audio or video. Media aggregators are client software or web-based applications which maintain subscriptions to feeds that contain audio or video media enclosures. They can be used to automatically download media, playback the media within the application interface, or synchronize media content with a .

Broadcatching [ edit ]

Several BitTorrent client software applications have added the ability to broadcatch torrents of distributed multimedia through the aggregation of web feeds.

Feed filtering [ edit ]

One of the problems with news aggregators is that the volume of articles can sometimes be overwhelming, especially when the user has many web feed subscriptions. As a solution, many feed readers allow users to each feed with one or more keywords which can be used to sort and filter the available articles into easily navigable categories. Another option is to import the user's Attention Profile to filter items based on their relevance to the user's interests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator[11/9/2015 8:40:22 AM] News aggregator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

See also [ edit ] Comparison of feed aggregators History of technology Web feed Metasearch engine Associated Press v. Meltwater

References [ edit ] 1. ^ Luscombe, Belinda (2009-03-19). "Arianna Huffington: The Web's New Oracle" . Time (Time Inc). Retrieved 2009-03-30. (subscription required (help)). "The Huffington Post was to have three basic functions: , news aggregator with an attitude and place for premoderated comments." 2. ^ "Google News and newspaper publishers: allies or enemies?" . Editorsweblog.org. World Editors Forum. Retrieved 2009-03-31. 3. ^ Hansell, Saul (24 September 2002). "All the news Google algorithms say is fit to print" . . Retrieved 20 January 2014. 4. ^ Hill, Brad (24 October 2005). Google Search & Rescue For Dummies . John Wiley & Sons. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-471-75811-2. 5. ^ LiCalzi O'Connell, Pamela (29 January 2001). "New Economy; Yahoo Charts the Spread of the News by E-Mail, and What It Finds Out Is Itself Becoming News." . New York Times. 6. ^ "YC-Backed NewsBlur Takes Feed Reading Back To Its Basics" . TechCrunch. July 30, 2012. 7. ^ "Need A Alternative? Meet Newsblur" . Search Engine Land. March 14, 2013. 8. ^ Cheredar, Tom (22 May 2013). "Zite’s new iOS app update welcomes (but doesn’t cater to) mournful Google Reader users" . VentureBeat. Retrieved 24 February 2014. 9. ^ Dugdale, Addy (14 March 2013). "Google Reader is dead, but Digg, Zite are among these alternatives" . Fast Company. Retrieved 24 February 2014.

External links [ edit ] Feed Readers at DMOZ Wikimedia Commons has Codeniters.com on (31 March 2015). "Read RSS media related to RSS clients. Feed with PHP" . Look up aggregator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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