Mindity was a RSS

RSS (file format)

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format...

 Feed reader for Windows based on Microsoft .NET

.NET Framework

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 with many social networking functions. It was a personalized newsfeed service that serves a community of web users by enabling them to explore the RSS space on a single platform across a variety of feed formats. Delivered through a desktop RSS reader client, Mindity was a network of people participating in the reading, sharing and rating of information gleaned from a host of published sources on the web. Mindity was shut down on 2008-11-28.

Features

• Full support for RSS
  RSS (file format)
  RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format...
  
  , RDF & Atom
  Atom (standard)
  The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a...
  
   of all versions
• Read news either in the internal browser or a Rich Text window
• Share feeds and news articles with other people and with other sites like Digg
  Digg
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   or Facebook
  Facebook
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• Import/Export of OPML
  OPML
  OPML is an XML format for outlines...
  
  /XML
  XML
  Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
  
   files
• Many social networking functions
• Enhanced privacy options
• Rating of feeds and voting for news stories
• 3 types of desktop alerts: pop-up windows, news ticker and voice
• Internal Multimedia viewer (for audio and video)
• iPhone
  IPhone
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