Need some information about software which will keep me up to date

Hello, I have a few questions about certain types of software and was wondering if anyone could help? 1) I'm quite an avid follower of new kickstarter and indiegogo projects and was wondering if there was anything similar to RSS feed about keeping me up to date on the projects I'm interested in? 2) The RSS widget I get with my windows 7 ACER Z3731 is really poor. It updates articles from...