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moerl:
filehippo makes this easy. at the bottom of each page for a program there are two rss buttons, one of which is for updates on that specific program. for example, at the bottom of http://www.filehippo.com/download_rocketdock/ is a button linking to http://www.filehippo.com/download_rocketdock/rss/.
-twinkler (August 03, 2007, 11:58 AM)
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Ok, yeah, but I'm not looking to add 100 feeds to FeedDemon today. I need ONE feed that will tell me about all the software udpates I'm interested in. In *one* feed, because that's the only way it makes any sense.

Curt:
Yes, that is the only way it makes sense - and if you know how to code this, it will make you money if you want to, because such an app is not to be found yet. I guess we would know.

moerl:
It wouldn't be an app.. really. Well, I suppose you could make a web-app of it. If you think about it, this technically already sort of exists. There's gotta be SOME service out there that lets you add a bunch of feeds and will then all be combined into a single super-feed. I think I've read about it too. Ah well. It would be too tedious..

Here's an idea: a web-app that can pull data from Softpedia, Betanews, Tucows, Majorgeeks etc.. and that consists of an app database. Users register and log in and can search and browse apps with pretty icons, then add them to their "tracked" list. This list generates an RSS feed you can subscribe to. Of course you could build a mini social network around this, though I'm not sure if that would be worth the effort.. pretty good idea overall, I think :)

cmpm:
This may be close to what you are looking for.
Haven't tried it but it seems to say you can build your own feed from many feeds and websites.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/feededitor.html

muntealb:
All you need is an RSS Reader that has filtering capabilities. Then you subscribe to the RSS feed with new versions of software from your preferred site (Softpedia, Snapfiles, etc.) and make X filters, one for each software you're interested in. The filter can be customized so that it applies only to the feed(s) that you select. For example if you use GreatNews for RSS you must create "News Watches" (name for filters in GreatNews) for EditPad, KMPlayer, Maxthon, etc. Each time the feed is updated the "News Watch" will search for the name of the software in the new items of the feed. Of course each time this name appears in the feed from Softpedia or Snapfiles there is a new version available.

Actually in GreatNews you can create a filter with multiple words to watch so you don't even need X filters but a single one.

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