Sep06
28
Grazr - RSS Reader Within Your Site
There’s a stack of buzz online around Grazr (yet another vowelless Web 2.0 brand).
Grazr (as I understand it) lets you build, customise and insert a little widget into your site or blog that contains RSS feeds. RSS feeds, for those of you who are still figuring them out, are injections of updated articles or posts fed to subscribers in real time from dynamic content websites. I built a Grazr from my list of feeds in Bloglines (as listed in my blogroll in the sidebar to the right). This is what it looks like:
It’s pretty cool, but my immediate concern is that it’s just another cool thingy to clog up my sidebar, and my sidebar is already looking pretty clogged up. I’m a bit of a widget whore, you see. Does Grazr, in your opinion, add any value to your experience of my blog that the Technorati Favourites widget and my Bloglines blogroll doesn’t already?
If so, tell me how. I’m really interested to unpack the value for the common blogger.
However, that said, I immediately see the value for an enterprise application. This free little web service could make a mean addition to intranets and knowledge portals within companies.
From one widget whore to another, I think this one is overkill. I like to promote my friends and their work but it’s not worth bogging down load times with a flash widget.
I’m with you dude. It’s slow to load. Nice, but slow.