Just got my Alpha invite to Feedlounge, which as you can expect from the name is an online RSS feed aggregator. Why the hell would you want one of those you ask? Well if you’re like me, I like to keep on top of things both from home and from work. I’ll check my RSS feeds every few hours when I need a break and life goes on. For the posts that take a little longer than a mere glance at I kinda try and keep a mental note to check them out when I get home and have some better time to thing about them.

Problem is I keep adding feeds on a daily basis. This makes my home list massive compared to my work one. Add to the fact that NOTHING is sacred to the IT staff at work, and I’m stuck to thinking that there has to be a better way.

Enter Feedlounge. I’ve only played around with it for like 5 minutes and already I really like what I’m seeing. Bearing in mind that this is still in Alpha, it’s a very tidy little online application. The design is very minimal, but has all the information that is required.

There is a serious dollop of AJAX in there, and that does make things seem more like a desktop application, which is a very good thing. Hopefully with all the new alpha members little niggling things like horizontal scrolls with the scroll wheel will actually start working.

It’s going to take a really good online application to make me stop using Sage for Firefox, and this might be just the right thing.