Stitch Your Feeds Together With Feedstitch

Posted by Sharon Hurley Hall on July 12th, 2009

Feedstitch

This post has been submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from Get Paid To Write Online.com.

Feedstitch promises to make it easy for you to put all your feeds together and republish them. I wanted to see how it compared to the RSS feed mixing tools we reviewed earlier this year.

Signing in was a simple matter of plugging in my OpenID, though I could also have used my Google account, Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook or Aol. Within a couple of seconds, I was at the ‘add feed’ page.

Adding a Feedburner feed worked very well and all the posts soon appeared in my Feedstitch feed. Adding author feeds from other sites, did not work, and I ended up with the main site feed in each case.

To publish your feeds, create a group to link them together and then you get a page where they appear. Here’s my first effort.

As you can see, although I used my OpenID to login, the site didn’t pull in my name, so my remixed feed is attributed to ’some random dude’.

Although there are a couple of negatives, which I’ve already mentioned, there are a lot of positives to Feedstitch. When I logged in again, it remembered the feeds I had previously added, and gave me the option to create another group.

I was also impressed by the range of feed types it could accept - as well as standard RSS, it takes Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, Github, Tumblr and Twitter Search feeds, making it a potential one stop shop for feed integration.

Where Feedstitch wins over some of the other options is in ease of use. It takes one click to add a feed, and another to create a group. Changing the mix is as simple as checking a couple of boxes. Though there are still a few things that need tweaking, Feedstitch is a good RSS feed mixer and it’s worth a try.

Sharon Hurley Hall
Get Paid To Write Online.com
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