FeedBlendr.com

Due to the ongoing costs of operating FeedBlendr, I will be closing this site down at the end of this month (June). Your blends will no longer operate after that date, and all requests to this website will be directed to a single static page.

If you’d like a replacement, you might like one of these alternate providers:

• Hosted Services
  • Yahoo! Pipes
  • FeedRinse
  • xFruits
• Install on your own server
  • Big in Japan’s Frankenfeed
  • SimplePie
• Separate Server/Enterprise-oriented
  • RSSBus

Thanks to everyone who used FeedBlendr and who made it popular, and it’s a pity that I can’t keep it running.

I was checking out Digg this morning and noticed this story over at Valleywag:

How To Get all the tech news you need (in 20 minutes a day)

A quick look told me there’s a better way, so here it is. The article suggests a number of news sources that you should scan on a daily basis to ensure you’re getting a good coverage of what’s going on. Checking multiple sites takes way too long, so why not blend those news sources into a single feed and then subscribe to it in your newsreader, or even view it online?

1. DailyTech: Top Sources
2. DailyTech: Commentary
3. DailyTech: Mainstream
4. DailyTech: Mainstays

The only news source I couldn’t include in there was Wired Magazine in “Mainstays”, but that’s much sexier to read in old-school hardcopy anyway, so go subscribe to it and read it on your commute or something.

These blends will all be upgraded with the new beta version of FeedBlendr soon, and then you’ll be able to access the contents of them online, on your cell-phone, wherever you want; care of some of the cool new features about to be released.