I use Microsoft Outlook for all my e-mail and contact management, so I’ve been looking for a news aggregator that integrated well with Outlook.

I tried intraVnews and I was fairly happy with it. There are a few problems, but its a pretty good product overall. The main problem was that every news item is pulled in as a seperate item (like an e-mail). This was a little annoying because I subscribe to about 30 different sources and I get a lot of news updates. I wanted to be able to scan all the new headlines from a particular source without having to delete each individual item after I was done with it. Yet, I still wanted the ability to save items that really interested me.

I really like the simplicity of www.bloglines.com. This is a Web-based aggregator that allows me to save items and to scan headlines. And, because it’s Web-based, I can access it from anywhere while still preserving my blogroll, update/session history, saved items, etc.

I have even integrated it into Outlook. Here’s how: