(via and bloggingpro), a great list of things people can do with RSS, compiled by Tim Yang
- Get the news as it happens from multiple news sources
- Collect your email from all your email accounts in your RSS reader (mailbucket)
- Track Fedex packages
- Get notified of bargains at Ebay (rssauction)
- Get stock updates
- Get the weather report (wunderground)
- Find out what people are saying about you, your company or your product online (technorati or pubsub)
- Get music, radio programs and TV clips
- Stay updated on someone's schedule (RSScalendar.com)
- Get cinema schedule updates
- Read your favourite comics
- Find out what other people surfing (del.icio.us...)
- Automatically backup your weblog posts
- Get software updates
- Get the latest bittorrent files and ahem, p*rn
Some readers add other functions in comments:
- traffic conditions (maps.yahoo.com)
- get up-to-the-minute police and fire events (incidentlog)
- video game statistics
- jobsearch (rssjobs)