Anothr: Skype RSS Reader Robot

Written by Tangos on October 24, 2006
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AnothrAnothr(formerly knows as Luobotou2.0) is a Skype robot which help you to read rss feed in your Skype. From its website:

Anothr.com is a skype-based robot which can provides just-in-time alerts for your favorite feeds. It can simplify your blogs/news reading experience and improve the effectiveness of your daily information flow.

To use Anothr to read rss updates is incredibly simple. After adding anothr.com as your Skype contact, you can simply input the rss feed you want to follow in chat window, the robot will varify the feed and add subscription for you. You can also just input the URL of blogs you want to follow, the robot will discover the rss feed and subscribe it for you(see screenshot below). If the feeds you subscribe have updated posts, the title and summary of the posts will be shown in Skype chat window.

Maybe it is not designed for rss heavy consumers, but it would be helpful for those who use Skype daily and track a certain blogs.

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3 Responses to “Anothr: Skype RSS Reader Robot”

  1. Anders Borg on October 27th, 2006 11:02 pm

    Very nice and creative “combine what’s ubiquitous and create something new” kind of solution.

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