RSS (Really Simply Syndication) is a technology underpinning the popularity of blogging as well as a way to publish and subscribe to blog entries. However, it is unsurprised to learn that many sites still did not have a feed. For the site owners who built their sites not by using the blogging software; the static one, a Web app called rssa (Really Simply Syndicate Anything) can help to solve the RSS creation process.

By entering your Web site’s URL to rssa’s feed URL bar, this service will create a feed for your site through a quick and easy few steps manner. You can set options such as create a feed widget or alerts widget and place the widget onto your site. On the upside, rssa allows you to create a feed based on the category pages, or search pages of your site, but if this service can’t create the feed simply because it couldn’t find any suitable data on the page your specified, you’ll find it isn’t always “Really Simply Syndicate Anything.”

Apparently, rssa functions similar to FeedYes, another service helps to create a feed automatically. However, on a side note, I ran a simple test to create a feed for a static site, but the outcome shown that FeedYes gives you the ability to create the feed based on the static site’s page headline that has news value whereas rssa failed to take care of this.

Reading online magazine articles from site to site? Sorry, that’s not convenient for me. Now, a startup called Maggwire is offering a new way for you to read the magazines. Maggwire, dubbed as the new way to “experience magazines online,” it is designed to wire you to a list of articles from 660 magazines across the Web, at the time of my writing.

On the front page of Maggwire, it aggregates magazine articles that cover any topic under the sun, from golf, and yoga to tech or celebrity news. All the magazine articles resolves around topics, and included with each topic, there are sub-categories that form around a main category. Clearly, the Top Articles part of the site is virtually identical to many other news sites on the Web such as Digg and Techmeme whereby the article with most popularity, i.e. five (5) stars will sit in at the top of the site.

In fact, Maggwire offered a number of features that will shorten the amount of time you spend on the site each day. For the articles you’ve read, you can either rate it so the rating color will turn from yellow to red, and next time when you come across this article, you know you can skip to other articles until you find something interesting.

Also, Maggwire comes with additional features such as the ability to share the articles via the addthis plugin, and hide a certain magazine based on your viewing experience. The “Hide Magazine” feature, although it is certainly unique, it’s likely to appeal to a very small segment of online readers who want to make their browsing articles faster.

Guzzle.it is a Web-based RSS reader allows you to select from the existing hot topics or create your own by adding an RSS feed. To make Guzzle.it stands out from the crowd, what its offering is the ability to read hundreds of feeds every second, and thus new content will be automatically sent to your own personalized page.

Like any other Web-based RSS reader, Guzzle.it makes it easy for users to save any of the feeds they find interesting on their own personalized page. You can add a new topic, arrange the topics selected with a separator, so different topics can be separated for the ease of read, and some basic display options are even available at this moment.

After you finishing customize your own page, Guzzle.it will aggregate all the relevant RSS feeds based on 3 div layouts in a row. If you mouse hover to one of the feeds, some brief description on where the link will go will be shown on your browser. What’s more, if you’re not satisfy with the layout of all the feeds, Guzzle.it allows you to re-arrange your feeds with the drag and drop features.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a very common way to distribute or subscribe to the frequently updated Web content such as blog postings or news items. If you have a feed reader with you, and you use it quite often, you will find it most useful and well suite your news subscription purposes.

However, there are advanced use of RSS other than the aforesaid RSS reader. One of them is referred by us as RSS mixer. In technological settings, RSS mixer is by mean a very advanced RSS tool with some great set of options to help you to combine and filter feeds and do some conversion out of the results.

There is a RSS mixer called FeedMingle that worth a look. FeedMingle has an easy to use user interface and one of the great features is that you can use it without any registration. To use it, simply enter the feed URLs, and follow the instruction on its interface by giving your favorite feeds a title, FeedMingle will then combine all those feed into one. An online feed aggregator, if you want to, then you can copy and paste the code to your blog or Web site as a widget option. Also, theme design and short text options for the widget are available. But if you want to use the combined feeds for creating mashup, FeedMingle has already converted the feed URLs to RSS, Atom or JSON format.

In overall, I feel FeedMingle is a promising RSS mixer, and its interface is very easy to use, thus even the least technical savvy users will know how to mix their favorite feeds.

The use of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) especially in the arena of blogging was success, and this has led to several other opportunities for its use such as newsletter creation, RSSMixer, etc.

Meanwhile, there is no doubt that most of the software vendors like to incorporate RSS in their products, and HP is one of them. In matter of fact, Tabbloid is HP’s new foray into RSS territory by offering a way that can helps to turn one’s favorite RSS feeds to a digital magazine document. It is created with a simple aim so that it can be a valuable tool for one to subscribe feeds and read it in a fascinating way.

For those who have subscribed to a lot of feeds everyday, you might be fed up with the organization of the feeds in their feed readers or their email inbox. Thereafter, if you want your feeds to be delivered as a digital magazine in PDF format, as shown in the below picture, you’ll find Tabbloid most useful for this reason.

On the front page of Tabbloid, it has a very clean look and easy to use interface. Tabbloid won’t require you to create an account in order to use it, and it is essentially a one-step process to create a digital magazine from your RSS feeds. After entering the URL of your favorite RSS feeds, Tabbloid will automatically sort the feeds based on the feed list you give it, and will generate a digital magazine in PDF format. The digital magazine is a two column with page number document and instead of showing summaries of posts by most of the feed readers, you’ll get the full articles, thus you can read the articles in a more easily digestible manner. What’s more, Tabbloid also handling the sending work that include sending the digital magazine to your email inbox. However, unless you set the delivery option on Tabbloid, you’ll be opted-in the mailing of digital magazine to your email inbox provided there is a RSS feed for the new content.

Lastly, if you like the presentation of RSS feeds in the digital magazine, you can print it out by using a printer, hopefully a HP printer.

FeedMySearch is a new Web utility that powered by Google. In using it, it will syndicate Web content based on your search terms, rather than the RSS writings such as blogs, journals that you’ve subscribed to. To use FeedMySearch, you just need to type the keywords that you’d like to search on Google, and FeedMySearch will turn your Web search on Google into an RSS search. From the keyword search, you can further filter it based on the format you like, in the forms of Web search, blog search, image search, etc.

To save your time at your convenience, FeedMySearch will generate a list of ten (10) search results, and you can save and subscribe it through one of the Web-based feed readers that powered by Add to Any. The next time this search term has a new update, it will automatically appeared on your feed reader you’re using it all the time. Despite the popularity of RSS received a somewhat chaotic inception, RSS continue to become pervasive in the end-user market. What fueled the popularity of RSS is not only the feeds one subscribed can be delivered to her own feed reader whenever there is a new update found, but additional features such as descriptions, images, videos are incorporated into the feeds. Apparently, you also can find all these images, videos, if any on your RSS feeds that generated by FeedMySearch.

FeedMySearch currently in public beta. Anyone can use it without applying for an account.