I've known about RSS for a few years now, and I've made sure that the XML links are evident on my blogs. But I've never really used it as a consumer until the release of Internet Explorer 7.0. With the Feeds tab part of the Favorites window, I've been adding RSS feeds from my favorite sites like crazy. Suddenly my web surfing patterns have changed almost overnight--the information comes to me, rather than me making a point to hit a number of sites everyday searching for news.
But this all began to be a bit too much after a while. Too much information, too often! And I needed more organization for these feeds. At a recent Baynet meeting on ASP.Net and Atlas, William Sarris briefly showed us PageFlakes.com. PageFlakes is an interesting company: founded by people on four continents, one of them (Omar AL Zabir) is an MVP for Visual C#. Their website uses ASP.Net Ajax to allow you to subscribe to RSS feeds, add PageFlakes (small web gadgets), and other content. I've setup four pages (News, Gaming, Entertainment, Microsoft and .NET) to make it easier to view the feeds I'm really interested in. PageFlakes has some venture capital financing from Benchmark Capital and it will be interesting to watch how it evolves.
