Tabbloid: Print your RSS feeds to paper

From the always great The Next Web I discovered a nice, simple and straightforward tool (no registering required) to transform a set of rss into a pdf for paper reading: Tabbloid from HP.

I find this technology incredibly interesting: not only because I created something like that some years ago to compose Pubmed information for doctors and discovered how hard can be to develop a pagination system, but also because automatic pagination was one of the fields were AI technology was useful.

After a quick trial with boingboing‘s feed some issues should be addressed by HP:

• Resulting pdfs are huge. It seems they’re strategy for images is not optimized.
• The resulting design is not as attractive as I expected: bullet points are horrible, some hanging chapter headers and the two columns format is not the most aesthetically presentation around

But anyway, it is a good start and I hope they improve the paginating algorithm (the core of the application) shortly. Also, it seems a good solution for people who commute using mass transport without a laptop/iPhone.

Oh!! As you probably know I currently work with HP, but I’m in no way related to Tabloid’s team.