For the last three months or so I’ve felt a little bit disconnected from the blogosphere. There is probably a few reasons for this. First of all I’ve been so flippin’ busy that I really haven’t had the time to aggregate as much information as I normally do and secondly I haven’t been successful at merging my Outlook-centered world with the various external aggregators that are out there (RSSBandit and various web-based aggregators).
In the past I’ve used NewsGator but it really makes Outlook run like a dog so I’ve had to drop it. There was some discussion on one of the private mailing lists that I subscribe to recently about Squeet and Scott Guthrie even made a post about it because it is implemented in ASP.NET 2.0.
Basically, Squeet is a web-based aggreagator but instead of having to visit it to read your feeds it simply wraps the content up into a nicely formatted e-mail and sends it to a nominated e-mail account. Getting setup was relatively simple, I just exported an OPML file from RSSBandit and imported it into Squeet via the provided interface, then after responding to the confirmation e-mail blog posts started trickling through.
So far I like it - time will tell whether I keep using it or not! One thing it could use is a plug-in for Internet Explorer that allows me to quickly subscribe to a feed by right-mouse clicking on an RSS link the way I can with RSSBandit. That would pretty much make it complete.