Restrictions of the RSS Feed in Ning

There is an RSS feed gadget in Ning, but it's a bit restricted in that it only supports a single feed. To have multiple feeds, you'd need multiple gadgets and for that something like iGoogle, Netvibes or Pageflakes would provide a nicer interface. To work around this restriction, use of an external feed aggregation service such as Yahoo! pipes or a shared Google Reader collection would be needed.

There is a RSS feed reader gadget, but that's limited to 6 feeds. In both cases, it's not clear whether the feed gadget or feed pages are per-site or per-user controls.

Anyway, I've added an example of both to see what the community thinks. I've used the RSS gadget to post a collection of delicious bookmarks for the EG-353 project. I'm using the RSS Pages application to serve the eg353project delicious bookmarks and tweets using the #eg353project hashtag.

I seem to remember that Elgg has much better support for importing and sharing RSS feeds. If we were keeping score, that would be Ning 0-1 Elgg.