In addition to being one of the best blog search engines, Feedster is also a news aggregator, a topic-based or search-based RSS/RDF/XML/ATOM feed provider, and an email alert tool like Google Alert but for blogs.
Feedster is also a web-based personalized RSS/ATOM/RDF/RSS2 reader.
So, Feedster is awesomely powerful and has an embarassment of riches in products, services, and ways to look at the blogosphere.
Feedster also needs to work a little on its User Interface (UI) to ensure that as its uder base expands past the early adopters and the super tech-savvy, Feedster’s collections of powerful, interesting, and important search and alert tools are not only the best but also easy to find and use.
My only complaint is that the most powerful Feedster tools, products, and services require lots of digging and aren’t always obvious.
There are indeed rewards to looking around but I think that Feedster needs to make things like subject and blog-based “Feedster Alerts” easier to find by people who give a site about 3 seconds of their attention before they get frustrated and move on.
The personalize news aggregator and web-based news reader isn’t the best either. Bloglines does a much better job in delivering news feeds via the web. Feedster’s interface is not easy to navigate.
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thanks, just started using Feedster yesterday and thought it was just me. I found it ridiculously slow and very light on the help.