Web Worker Daily

RSS (and other feed technologies like Atom) have always been somewhat of a niche technology, though that niche is widening lately. Still, as most web workers know, trying to explain RSS to newcomers can be daunting. “Planets” – web sites that update by pulling in content from other sites, using feeds under the covers – can be a much gentler introduction. Now Planetaki is making it easy to anyone to create a planet.

With Planetaki, you create your account and your planet at the same time. Adding sites to the planet is as simple as typing in URLs – Planetaki does the work behind the scenes to locate feeds, pull them in, and arrange them on the page. Here’s an example of the results, which took just minutes to put together. If you own a planet, you can also email items from that planet at the click of a button.