AIR News Reader: Apprise

Share stories right from your news reader

Over the summer, my intern Dan Koestler and I decided to get serious about Apprise, a news reader written for AIR. There are a lot of news readers out there, so the natural question is what sets Apprise apart? Here's a summary of what I believe are our most compelling features:

• AIM integration. Send stories to your AIM buddies from Apprise rather than copying and pasting URLs into your AIM client. Apprise doesn't replace your AIM client -- it works alongside it to make sharing stories easier and more efficient.
• Twitter integration. Post URLs to Twitter directly from Apprise. Again, Apprise doesn't replace your Twitter client, but it makes posting stories to Twitter much faster and easier.
• Folders. We finally broke down and added folders, our #1 feature request. We now have folders for you to organize your own feeds, but Apprise still automatically organizes posts by author and topic, as well.
• Automatic feed resolution. It's surprising how many sites don't make it easy to find their RSS or Atom feeds. Now you can just enter the URL of the site that you want to aggregate, and Apprise will find the feed for you.