Anyone checked out this new concept RSS tool called http://www.rssense.com?

Instead of us searching for a RSS feed to parse, RSSense 'senses' what kind of feed is required for the website by based on the site's content, keyword matching and other methods like meta tags etc to determine what the site is all about. More or less like an AI code to figure out what kind of info site provides and its functionality.

Based in this it'll provide us the RSS Feed - we dont have to search for it.

Check it out !

But why would something like this be useful? ??:

If I understand the concept correctly, it works like a Google-bot, making an RSS feed based on the site's content. I guess it might be good for certain sites that get updated a lot, but I think a "hand-made" RSS feed might be better. You could highlight certain sections of your site or hold off on a new feed if you wanted to. I guess it's one of those things you need to try and see if it works for you.

I understand how RSS feeds are supposed to work but what I am trying to figure out is why would a webmaster place news/external rss feeds on her site? What is the objective of doing something silly like that?

I subscribe to RSS feeds of my favourite sites of course, but I would do it with the live feed option in FireFox or subscribe to it via Thunderbird. I would NEVER reproduce them on my web sites without a VERY good reason.