RSS in Firefox

My responsibility on the Firefox team is to support internationalization of Firefox. One of the things I do is review international locations for choices on product elements such as search engine, RSS feeds and RSS readers. The objective generally is, of course, to provide the best user experience by creating choice across these elements.

Defining the "best" in each locale is often difficult for me as my context is limited to the languages I speak and geographic locations I've lived. In our upcoming major release of Firefox 3 we will be adding capabilities for protocol handlers. As such I'm looking for help in finding good sources of information on international choices for RSS readers and feeds and search engine's. There was some good debate in the Mozilla L10n (localization) Forum on Google Groups, and there are some great bugs (much as bugs can be great ;) that illustrate the challenge of finding good choices. I hope you can help me find good sources e.g., lists of international choices across these product elements.

Thanks

Comments

[Riccardo Fallini]

I'm not sure if you want some feed source here on your blog or you prefer they on Google Groups..

However I suggest you some Italian feed.
For complexity and language:
http://www.molecularlab.it/news/rss/rss.asp

For diffusion:
http://www.repubblica.it/rss/homepage/rss2.0.xml

I hope this can help the development of the best browser ;-)
Riccardo

[Juanzo]

Michal, we would love to help for spanish feeds but we need to know what type of websites are you looking for.

Informational websites like newspapers (nytimes.com like)? Sites that talk about Mozilla? Equivalents in english would be great to pick the best ones.

[michal berman]

The best feeds are ones that are comprehensive for that language or locale. Firefox typically ships with BBC as it's usually a great international source of news. In some cases (especially in Eastern Europe) there are "better" locale language sources of news that are both comprehensive (covering international and local) and in the users language.
hope that helps
Also, posting here in response is super as I'd like to aggregate the information we collect and make it public. I will also use Google Groups forum (which is subscriber only).
thanks
mic

[Carlos]

I think that, regarding Argentina, you should consider clarin.com, wich is the main newspaper in the country. Additionally you should consider lanacion.com and pagina12.com.ar as well.

Finally, regarding popular blogs, I think the right ones are uberbin.net, fabio.com.ar, ignaciomarcos.com.ar, orsai.es and serialblogger.com.ar.

[Nishant Mathur]

For India
1. Search Engine: Google Search India.
2. Newspaper: Times of India is the largest read newspaper. Also addition of a business newspaper like The Economic Times would be great.
3. orkut is a great hit so addition of that in the bookmarks toolbar would be a great idea.
4. rediff.com is a pretty popular site in India and would be a great addition as well.

Nishant

[Walker]

For serbian language, there are http://www.blogodak.com and http://planetoid.srpski.org - two major blog agregators where all the feeds are collected ;)