I’d resisted for a long time to release a feature like this. Reading feeds that have frequent daily updates, have always been dealt with by using the “Cluster” feature in RssFwd. And that has worked just fine up until now.

The fact is, is that there are many non-Gmail users fo RssFwd, and they need a different solution.

I’ve modified the subscription options form to look like the above image. You will find that the “Clustered” checkbox is now gone. This has been replaced with a new drop down selection for you to choose between “Normal” and “Clustered.”

In addition, I’ve sneaked in a few more options last week:

“Digest” for morning, afternoon, evening or night. What this means is that you can choose when you would like to receive your email. If you subscribe to CNN & Slashdot in the evening digest, you will get 1 email containing all the updates from both feeds for the day.

And in case you’re wondering, it will be in your timezone. If you choose “every evening“, it is your evening. Not mine. Not Greenwich Mean Time. And you don’t have to live in the US. This detail a big deal for me. Hopefully you’ll find it useful as well.

Thanks for stopping by. We have decided to set up an “official” RssFwd.com blog thats focused solely on this service. We have a lot of updates and positive changes coming up in the near future and we want to make sure you know about them!

As many of you may know RssFwd was acquired by my company, Blue Sky Factory, Inc, earlier this year. I have to say, it has been a true pleasure working with Choon Keat, and we are excited that he remains passionate about RssFwd and continues on with us as the prime developer.

We would love to hear from you, our users. Tell us what you like, what you don’t like, and what we can do to better improve our service. RssFwd remains a simple, yet effective way to have RSS based content delivered right to your inbox.

We also love to hear about the unique and interesting ways people are using the service. If you haven’t seen some of the latest press, check out these two articles on how folks are using the service to get RSS updates to their mobile phones:

- Lifehacker - Get feed updates via text message - July 12th by Gina Trapani
- TUAW - Receive RSS feeds as SMS messages - July 13th by Erica Sadun

We look forward to hearing from you, and stay tuned for more updates and improvements to the service!