Pito Salas, the developer of BlogBridge, contacted me to clarify my last post on RSS dashboards.  I think he made some good points which I would like to post.  We outlined four types aggregators:

1. The desktop aggregator represented by BlogBridge.
2. Aggregators built on web browers like Bloglines and Rojo.
3. Aggregators built into the web browser like Safari, Firefox, and our new favorite, Flock.
4. Aggregators that use AJAX in the browser like Microsoft Live.com and Netvibes.

All of these aggregators use a standard user interface that can be customized with feed lists. 

in my last post I described a custom user interfaces that uses AJAX for a specific, narrowly defined applications for the the Chicago Park district.  Pito pointed out that this is not really a good example of a type of aggregator.  Rather it is a narrowly defined application that uses AJAX as a front-end technology.  He makes the important point that the more narrowly you define the application, the more customized you can make the front-end aggregation.  We expect to see more and more custom RSS aggregation app's written for specific business processes. 

I think this is a better way of classifying the various options for aggregators and RSS dashboards. 

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