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Archive for December 2005

December 21st, 2005

Syndication’s Next Wave

Scott Gatz was present at last week’s Syndicate conference and he got the chance to give a lunchtime keynote. This keynote is now available as a download on his site. He talks through the work his team has been doing around RSS, gave a demo of the new Yahoo! Mail beta, and talked a little […]

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December 21st, 2005

Attensa 1.0 Beta

Attensa, the software company that got $9 million capital, has released Attensa for Outlook 1.0 Beta. With this plugin it’s possible to get results from all major blogs-searchengines right into your Outlook folder! It currently works with Blog Digger, Daypop, Del.icio.us, Feedster, flickr, Moreover, MSN search, Technorati, Wired News, Yahoo! News, Plazoo, SeekItAll, Google News, […]

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December 20th, 2005

Favo TV Shows via RSS

Check out this service called tvRSS, it brings TV shows to your desktop through RSS. Steve Rubel blogged about it and made an example with the feed for my favorite show, Lost (Project Dharma rules!). The software you might want is Videora; subscribe to a feed of your favorite show and get it downloaded via […]

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December 19th, 2005

Funny RSS feeds

Inspired by codebymatt.com I have selected the funniest RSS feeds. So in case you´re looking for something to spice up your day:
- Explosm.net (Comics).
- Overheard in the Office (Office humor).
- The Onion Daily (Sarcastic).
- I-Am-Bored.com (No comment).
- TheSuperficial.com (Gossip headlines).
- MilkandCookies.com (bizarre videos and links).
- Dilbert feed (Must read Comic).
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December 16th, 2005

Feed2Podcast: Listen to your RSS

The Feed2Podcast engine instantly turns your blog’s RSS feed into a Podcast! Just sit back and let the feed talk to you;)
Update: this is the Afeedisborn RSS Podcast but it doesn´t seem to work in iTunes… It does work with this link via feed2podcast.com.
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December 15th, 2005

Pheedo feed report

Pheedo, “the RSS advertising and analytics experts”, released its second in a series of “Pheed Read” reports, providing RSS publishers, advertisers and users insight into RSS usage patterns. The complete “Pheed Read #2” report is available on Pheedo’s blog but I’ve posted a summary below:

Standalone RSS ads are far more successful than inline ads.
Placing RSS […]

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December 15th, 2005

RSS icon is standardized!

There has been a “big” discussion going on in the RSS community, so hold your horses! Microsoft was in the process of figuring out what icon to use on our toolbar in IE7 to represent feeds. It would be orange, that much was clear. But how would it look? Well, I’m excited to tell you […]

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December 15th, 2005

Peoplefeeds: a feed for all

Peoplefeeds is a place to aggregate all your web2.0 interactions (blog posts, photo’s, bookmarks, etc) and present them as one personal stream, which offcourse is also available in RSS format. Peoplefeeds was created to solve one problem: the fragmentation of personal content. An example of a personal stream is the page from Bosko, he is […]

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December 14th, 2005

Feedflare: email, tag and share your feed!

Feedburner just announced a new service to help you make your RSS a “cooler, livelier, happier feed”. It is called FeedFlare and it is a one-step service that enables publishers to configure a very slim “footer” containing customizable actions that will appear beneath each item in a feed. With this service subscribers are given easy […]

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December 13th, 2005

NY Times job feeds

The New York Times now has RSS feeds on their Job Market. So if you’re looking for a PR job in NYC in 2006, you might want to add this feed to your new year’s resolutions! Great service from NYT if you ask me (via micropersuasion.com).
Some other handy feeds are weather and package-tracking.
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