Feedmailer | Bringing the world of RSS to your inbox
Tim February 28th, 2007
I remember the days when I use to keep track of a ton of bookmarks just so I knew which sites I enjoyed and wanted to watch. I would surf from one website to another just to see the latest content. Ah, those were the days. If you’re reading this with a grin on your face, it’s probably because you’re already familiar with RSS (Real Simple Syndication) and if you’re still staring at the screen wondering what in the world I’m talking about, read on my brothers and sisters.
There’s no shortage of information on RSS, gathering feeds, and the abundance of feed readers available, so I won’t bore you with all those gritty details. Basically it’s a way for you to get all the latest updates from a website in one location (your feed reader) instead of navigating to each site. There are many people that still don’t know about RSS or find the jump from reading on the web to browsing a feed reader too confusing. Feedmailer is just one company that is likely to change that.
Feedmailer allows anyone to subscribe to feeds through their email address, getting the latest content from their favorite sites delivered directly to their inbox. For many users this makes a bit more sense, after all everyone uses email these days, why require a feed reader to deliver the content? It’s a free, ad-supported service and I wanted to find out if it helped bridge the gap between RSS and the average user so I’m testing Feedmailer out today.
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