River4

River4 is an RSS aggregator written by Dave Winer. The project is written in node.js and open source. In contrast to other styles of feed reader, it produces a "River of News" characterized by:

Features

 * entries have a title, summary, and link.
 * rivers group articles from the same source together
 * no "unread" counts, just a vertically arranged list of feeds sorted reverse chronologically

River4 stores data on the user's local system or on Amazon S3, decoupling the reader web app from the server/datastore. Another feature of River4 is that multiple rivers, or groups of RSS feeds, can be presented on the same web site through a tab interface.

The specification for the river format is at RiverJS.org

Install
Installation information
 * River4 Github page has install instructions


 * Chris Dadswell installation notes


 * Andy Sylvester installation notes

IndieWeb Examples
Examples of uses by IndieWebCamp participants
 * Andy Sylvester has a River4 installation at http://myrivers.AndySylvester.com.

Other Examples
Examples of uses by other independents:
 * Andrew Shell has a River4 installation at http://river.andrewshell.org/.
 * Chris Dadswell has a River4 setup on his website
 * Dave Winer direct link to his River4 installation (can also be accessed via his Scripting News weblog on the River tab)

Demonstrations:
 * The Hello World River, with a description and how to here