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This is pretty good. Currently I use NetVibes, which is buggy and actually TOO customizable. I like the strict grid layout.

If you made this a service, here's what would make me switch:

- customizable feeds (kind of obvious I guess)

- ability to mark items as read/unread (link color is not enough - I want to skip some items, or just read them all from the blog itself without clicking individual items)

- have individual feed header be a link to the feed's main page (it's the <link> element in RSS) - customize number of items per feed (e.g. I'd want more items for feeds which update frequently)

Nice to haves:

- tabs (I have LOTS of feeds - would be easier to manage instead of long scrolling)

- along with using the <link> element above, ability to override this, because I've noticed lots of feeds that don't set it properly (link to the domain root instead of the blog root, e.g.)




I currently use netvibes too. to customize rss feeds.. i use Yahoo Pipes. You can provide bunch of feeds to pipes, then add custom filters, sorts, terms and generate a custom RSS address. Add this address to netvibes.

and with this process, you will hardly ever visit any of the homepages except netvibes.

Nice project though.




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