Sunday, August 19, 2007

xFruits: RSS from/to everything
















xFruits.com is a very interesting service that permits to exploit the potential of your RSS feeds. Their site exposes some very interesting services based on RSS feeds:
  • Feed to PDF
  • Feed to Mobile
  • Feed to Mail
  • Mail to Feed
  • Feed to Voice (!)
  • Feed to OPML
  • OPML to Mobile
  • and, of course, feeds aggregation
But, above all, it permits to "chain" these services by building very useful mashups.
i.e. You can build a chain made of "Mail to Feed" + "Feed to Mobile" that lets you check your mail from your mobile phone.
The most impressive mashup it's probably RSS to Voice (powered by VocalFruits) which lets you create podcasts from blog posts, mail messages ("Mail to feed" + "Feed to Voice") and so on.
Available voices are English, French and Spanish, but you need a (paid) account at VocalFruits. This is a bad news/good news: when you create the account at VocalFruits you will be credited with 100 free vocal credits (I think each credit is equivalent to the conversion of, e.g. , one feed), so you have the possibility of evaluating this service before you invest some money.

Finally, these guys are continuously improving and creating new options for you to use with your feeds.

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