Rolio is a social media RSS aggregation resource. It's very simple to use - you just click on the feeds that interest you from a list that they provide, add in others that are your own favourites and you can also link in your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Then sit back and view the stream of data as it is presented to you.
It worked very easily and took seconds to set up. However, since I follow a lot of people on Twitter, that swamped the feed, so I had to take that out. It was useful for search since I could use the box to find stuff that I knew I had recently seen. I did try it when I had my Twitter feed loaded, but it didn't work properly, and kept insisting it couldn't find anything, even when it was on the screen staring at me. You can create groups, add favourite feeds and so on.
Fine as far as it goes, but in comparison with tools such as Zite, which allows me to rank/rate stories, this has a long way to go. It's best feature by far is the search option, and it's worth remembering that it's there if only for that. If I was them, it's the element that I'd really work on to improve.
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