Squeet.com vs. Outlook 2007 RSSFeed Folder
With the public release of Office 2007 (or whatever it's called), I decided to grab it and start using it on a day to day basis. Tons of great stuff. Word is great, excel is great, I'm really liking the new UI.
Outlook has a new UI and some other features that I'm getting used to.
I have come to love the service of Squeet, which I have an account on, that manages all my RSS feeds. When Squeet finds a new entry, it emails it to me. I have a slew of Outlook rules that process the Squeet mails, and move them to the right folders, making it very easy to read.
Outlook 2007 has an RSS feature. Just subscribe to an RSS feed and Outlook adds a folder for the RSS feed, and brings in all the feeds. Ut..... Ohhhh. This is a feature that I might be tempted to use. After all, my love of the Squeet service was to read my RSS content in the application that I live my life, Outlook. So I got started very easily, because Squeet offer up an OPML feed, that let me easily import all my feeds to Outlook. Right now I have around 80 feeds. I was amazed at how fast all the feed folders were created.
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This is going to work well I think to myself. And go back to work.
Then, about an hour later, I see the famous error in the bottom right corner of Outlook, that happens when your mail server is down, that says something like "Error / Can't Connect Blah Blah". What The .....
I realize that it's checking the RSS feeds.
It hits me.
Squeet is not just an RSS to Email tool. It's a bandwidth tool. I don't have to hit 80+ RSS feeds once an hour to get new content. With Squeet, all I have to do is check my mail. They do all the pinging and checking, and I get to sit back and wait for new content. They deal with broken feeds and all the other jazz that comes with RSS.
So, I tried, and killed it. I'm still a squeet fan.