Searching for a feed home

Many sites have RSS feeds that allow you to view excerpts from their most recent articles or posts. There are also websites and applications that help you to organize all your feeds in one easy to use place. Recently I have been looking for a specific type of feed aggregation service. I want to be able to view the latest posts from the sites I visit frequently in one place sorted by date.

There are two ways to go: a website or an application. The application I tried was Onfolio. Mark Jen has been using it and he likes it so far. I unfortunately did not have as good of an experience. My firewall kept alerting me that the program was trying to write to my Windows directory and registry. It does this in order to save feed data. It was just a nuissance specific to my computer setup and not their fault but it was still bothersome to keep accepting the access for Onfolio. Then when I ran the program it didn’t put all my news in one place but rather split it up among the categories. There is however an IE and Firefox plugin that lets you browse feeds on the left and see a listing of the posts on the right. This was what I was looking for as it can give the latest posts sorted by date and not by site. The IE plugin worked well, but I couldn’t get the Firefox toolbar to work. It kept saying that it couldn’t load the sidebar. This pretty much ended it for me. I need something simple to setup and use. It actually has too many features for me, if that is even possible.

So then I went looking for a website that can do what I want it to. I looked at Rojo, Kinja, and Bloglines. Rojo has all the features I am looking for, but they don’t seem to update their feeds often. They do however have a very nice site with a great selection of features. Kinja was the same story but the news layout is less easy-to-use, they have less features than Rojo, and they have ads spread among the aggregated news summaries. Bloglines doesn’t seem like it will let me combine all my feed sources into one news page. Though they are updated more often than the other sites I tried.

The verdict? I am still looking for a site that updates feeds regularly and allows me to create a personalized page of news similar to Findory. Though the problem I had with Findory is that I can’t just see news from specific feeds. Let me know if you know of a site I have yet to try that may be what I am looking for.