Find New Feeds You'll Love With SuggestRSS (And Share Yours Here)

February 13, 2009  |  Awesome Apps

baby on toilet reading I’m a big RSS reader- it’s where I get all my news, all my blogs, and all my episodes of “Chad Vader” (YouTube that one, it’s awesome).

About a week ago, I got bored with my RSS feeds. I tend to get a lot of repeat news, a lot of similar-sounding posts, and only a tiny sliver of the blogosphere.

Finding new feeds used to be hard (Googling, searching through sites, subscribing), but SuggestRSS has made it a whole lot easier. All you have to do is upload an OPML file (I’ll explain that in a second) to the site, and it finds new feeds, suited to your liking.

SuggestRSS finds feeds based on what people who like what I like, have that I don’t. Say I like TechCrunch (which I do): SuggestRSS sees that I’m a subscriber, and looks for other people who subscribe. If 800 other people have both TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb subscriptions, but I only have TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb shows up in my recommendations. It’s a simple system, and works really well.

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I’m a big tech and productivity fan, and many of my RSS feeds involve blogs related to that. SuggestRSS figured this out, and recommended – among others – Google Operating System, Scobleizer, Engadget, The Big Picture, and Daily Blog Tips.

All the recommendations you get can be seen at a glance – There’s a link to the blog’s homepage, a link to subscribe to the blog in Google, or a link to the RSS feed so you can subscribe anywhere else.

You’ll get a ton of recommendations, but after the first page or so, they began to get pretty tangential, and less related to what I like.

Here’s how to do it, at least in Google Reader (by far the most popular RSS reader): Go to “Settings,” then “Import/Export.” Click “Export your Subscriptions as an OPML files”. Save that file, then upload it to SuggestRSS. You’re done!

Now I want your help: SuggestRSS had some great stuff, but I want more!

Tell me about your blog! Link to the homepage or the RSS feed, and give me some new stuff to read. You’re guaranteed at least one new reader – yours truly – out of it, and it might be some good self-promotion for you as well.

Your blog, Flickr stream, YouTube account- whatever you’ve got, share it in the comments. Let’s start reading each other’s work!

(While we’re on the subject, why not subscribe to The 2.0 Life if you haven’t already? :) )

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