{"id":135,"date":"2011-06-21T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/oneshare\/?p=135"},"modified":"2011-06-21T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T13:31:35","slug":"campusroar-looking-at-some-desktop-personalised-magazine-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/oneshare\/2011\/06\/21\/campusroar-looking-at-some-desktop-personalised-magazine-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"CampusROAR: Looking at some desktop Personalised Magazine apps."},"content":{"rendered":"

I will use the term Personalised Magazine to describe the social media and news aggregation applications I discussed in the last post.\u00a0 It seems to fit the purpose nicely and makes sense.<\/p>\n

There are lots of different apps and many seem to offer something different, be it platform or special features.\u00a0 Some are free and some are pay only.\u00a0 Here’s I’ll briefly go over 3 free personalised magazine apps.\u00a0 I’ll use the example of the ECS Eprints RSS feed to show how they all present the same data.<\/p>\n

Feedly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feedly is a multi-platform and multi-browser application.\u00a0 It has apps for both Android and iPhone, and also has plug-ins for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.\u00a0 On the desktop it runs in-browser as a web page.\u00a0 It gets the user to login to their google account, and uses their Google Reader feed to generate a magazine.\u00a0 Feedly is free for all versions.<\/p>\n

\"Feedly<\/a>
A Feedly magazine cover generated from the ECS ePrints RSS Feed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Feedly<\/a>
The Feedly cover page after adding "Engadget" as a new source.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Opera RSS Reader<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one is a bit of a misnomer since it’s not really an RSS reader at all.\u00a0 When you visit an RSS feed page in Opera, a magazine style preview page is generated for that RSS feed.\u00a0 However Opera won’t actually let you use this to view all your feeds in magazine format unfortunately.\u00a0 This seems to be an in demand feature so maybe they will add it soon, but for now it’s not possible to use this for your general viewing purposes.\u00a0 It’s worth taking a look at though to see how it’s presented.<\/p>\n

\"Opera<\/a>
The Opera RSS preview page, using the ECS ePrints RSS feed as source.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Opera<\/a>
The Opera RSS preview page for the Engadget RSS feed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pulse<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pulse is a mobile device only app (comes on iPhone, iPad and Android) which takes your news and arranges it in a colourful attractive mosaic.\u00a0 This one doesn’t really look like a magazine but it fulfils the same purpose, and looks nice in the process.\u00a0 This one offers many ways to pick which content you want to look at, including directly entering an RSS feed link, but also connecting to a Google Reader account, and picking from one of many news sources from Pulse’s extensive library.<\/p>\n

\"Pulse<\/a>
Pulse News with ECS EPrints as source.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pulse<\/a>
Pulse News with ECS ePrints as source.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pulse<\/a>
Pulse, showing content generated from the Engadget RSS feed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pulse<\/a>
Pulse, showing content from both the ECS ePrints and the Engadget RSS feeds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of these share the same problem in that because the ECS news feed isn’t very colourful, the magazine page ends up looking the same.\u00a0 Feedly tried to improve things by adding stock pictures but didn’t have much success.\u00a0 I have used the Engadget RSS feed as an example of an “interesting” news source.\u00a0 That is, one which generates nice looking pages on these apps.\u00a0 The main difference is the presence of an image in the RSS feed itself which is used as a thumbnail or illustration for the article in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I will use the term Personalised Magazine to describe the social media and news aggregation applications I discussed in the last post.\u00a0 It seems to fit the purpose nicely and makes sense. There are lots of different apps and many …<\/p>\n

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