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Feedwelder is a new web app for news and content curators that allows you to easily aggregate, mix and filter two or more RSS feeds and then to get a reliable JavaScript code to publish them on your website or bog.

Feedwelder does an excellent job of simplifying the need to mix multiple RSS feed together, eliminating duplicates and filtering the resulting mix according to your own specifications.

See part of the "mixing" interface: http://o7.no/154QOLH

Here is how it works:

1. Find the feeds you would like to show on your web site. (For example, BBC News has a page that lists all their feeds.)
   
   
2. Click on New Mix and give your mix a title (only visible to you).
   
   
3. Click "Add a Feed" to paste in each of your feeds.
   
   
4. Click "Save and Get Code" and you'll see the Javascript or PHP code that you can paste into your web pages.

The key benefits of using Feedwelder to aggregate and publish RSS feeds on your web site are:

a) Faster - Cloud cached feeds for maximum page load speed on your site

b) Simpler - Easy to mix and display feeds

c) Better looking - White label customizable look

My comment: For anyone doing news curation this is as useful as oxygen for humans. Aggregating, mixing and filtering RSS feeds is one of the basic activities of a good news curator and FeedWelder provides a simple tool to do it.

The only limitation of this approach remains the one that you are posting a JavaScript code snippet on your page and not the actual content of those RSS feed items. So, if you are doing this with the specific intention of improving the quality of content that search engines will find on your site, this is not going to help you. On the other hand if your first concern, - as it should - is for the end reader, the service provided by Feedwelder can provide a really useful and easy solution for publishing RSS feeds on your site while keeping control on their look.

Get invited: http://feedwelder.com/

cool tool..