RSS

xFruits takes RSS to the next level. The site provides the ability to do the following hosted wizardry with RSS feeds:

• Create a single RSS feed out of many
• Change a syndicated feed into a web page
• Create a mobile friendly page of your RSS feed
• Post to RSS from e-mail
• Convert recent RSS content into a PDF - see my site's RSS feeds
  
  
• Create an e-mail alert from an RSS feed
• Create an OPML file from several feeds
  
  
• Create a mobile friendly page of your OPML
  
  

Off the top of my head, I can think of a bunch of great instructional uses. How about aggregating class RSS feeds into a .pdf printout? Or pushing your RSS content out to students cell phones and e-mails

I have tried what seems like a million RSS aggregators and keep coming back to Bloglines. It has proven to be an efficient web based solution when I'm on my laptop (that I can also access from any computer when I'm away from home), but it is by far the best option I have come across for use on my mobile device (Cingular 8125). The content is formatted perfectly for reading on the small mobile browser screen and it loads extremely fast. I have hundreds of feeds in various categories in Bloglines, yet I can load updated feed content in a matter of seconds - far faster than when I log into my Google or Yahoo accounts on my mobile browser.