15 things you can do with RSS

Tim Yang lists15 things you can do with RSS besides just reading blogs. I use Newsgator to collect all the sites I am interested in, a couple comics and some podcasts. Now I will have to look into the other possibilities.

Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. Here are my favourites (please let me know if there are better services and I’ll update). I use this list to convince people to start using an RSS feed reader. There’s more to RSS than just weblog syndication and news aggregation.

Here are a couple that caught my eye:

• Get notified of bargains at Ebay
• Get stock updates
• Get the weather reports
• Get software update notifications

And the article mentions Comicalert.com which I will have to look into. I already get Dilbert and Wizard of ID.