have a few rss feeds from different sources that mention the same products (gizmodo, chrunchgear, ubergizmo and so on) and I spend a lot of time going through multiple posts. Is there any way to condense those rss's so that I'd see only the unique posts?

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You could have a look at Yahoo pipes, but finding a way of reliably combining similar posts would be very tricky.

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