Blogs & Social Media Forum: examining the impact of wikis, blogs & RSS, this one day forum will combine expert industry insight from leading thinkers in the field of social media technologies with real life case studies. The programme offers an unrivalled learning experience - 17 May 2006, London Hilton Metropole

Atiki - Social Feed Mixer - lets you share groups of feeds with other people. You can create your personalised feeds (up to 25 source feeds), adding search queries to filter items, tag these feeds, search them, clone them and much more

HappyFish - an RSS reader that can also download RSS enclosures i.e. podcasts, mp3's, videos, pics, apps, etc. Windows 2000 and XP machines and requires the .NET Framework 1.1

Rasasa - will keep you in touch with your favorite news sources. It will deliver the news to your messenger if you're online and to your mobile phone if you're offline... Or to your email box if you're in a 'quiet time'

Twins WebNews - a news reader that allows you to read RSS and ATOM webfeeds. Various Sort and Filter options help you find the items you want, and filter out those you don't want. Windows

RSS Proxy - "can copy an RSS feed from anywhere on the web. This way you can keep as many items in the feed as you want. Can "extend" an RSS feed. This is the best feature, because it can visit the url specified in the RSS feed and "scrape" some text of that page. This way it can replace the (normally shortened) text in a feed with the full version only available on the site itself. Can generate a so-called OPML file, so you can easily import your added feeds to your RSS reader". Windows 2003/Vista/XP. Requires .NET Framework 2.0

FeedShow - a fast and easy to use RSS feed reader that provides all the features that will let you browse news or blogs in a very efficient manner. Import/Export feed lists (OPML),
Folder categories, Save items locally, Convert to PDF format, print format, ... and many more

Conservative Party - UK, RSS feeds page

Personal file storage provider putfwd.com has announced a free 1GB of file storage, plus innovative social networking and publishing features not seen before in online file storage services. "putfwd.com lets you connect with other members, be they friends, family, co-workers, or even total strangers, and share files. Users can find each other based on their location and common interests." explains John Luxford, founder and lead developer of putfwd.com. "Our whole philosophy revolves around this concept of connecting users. This includes social networking, the publishing capabilities, new standards like RSS and photocasting, as well as web services which empower the users themselves to create whole new ways of working with their files."

Dave Winer has announced a draft OPML 2.0 specification for review