RollGator.com - An Aggregator For Public Displays

Rollgator (AKA “The Rolling Aggregator”) is a new web-hosted application that basically matches two of the information sources par excellence in today’s world: public information displays and RSS feeds. That is, using it is possible to create a wide screen displaying your favorite news coming from the web. In this way, news and your favorite content can be shared with whomever is in your same physical space.

For example, you can let everybody know about the date of different activities like seminars and classes, as well as deadlines and information detailed on your blogs. Every single thing you run on the web, actually, can be transmitted this way. You can also use it at home and remind the different members of your family of any important date. Move over, Jetsons…

Employing this system, then, requires two basic things: an Internet-enabled computer, and a wall to put your display in. If you are reading this I am more than sure that you comply with both requirements, so that should not be a problem.

“With Rollgator - the Rolling Aggregator - you can now easily create your own public information display, with a professional aspect, showing your favourite news coming from the web. News and more: dates, activities, your blogs, podcasts, classes, deadlines, and all the things you run on the web. You only need a computer and a screen to hang on a wall. Rollgator will put together everything, complying with all 2.0 web applications providing RSS feed.”

It gives the concept of RSS a nice (and practical) twist.

Is it free? If so, will it always be free?