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Archive for December 2005

December 5th, 2005

Attention.XML

There aren’t any examples but i do hear the term “attention.xml” a lot these days. What is attention.xml? According to the Technorati Developers Wiki it is an open standard, built on open source, that helps you keep track of what you’ve read, what you’re spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to. […]

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December 4th, 2005

RSS on your Sony PSP

You like RSS and can’t live without it? MioMediaBox downloads your favorite RSS feeds from the Internet, creates high-quality pictures using various backgrounds, and sends them to your Sony PSP Device or your MemoryStick Drive! The MioMediaBox for PSP is freeware, easy to use and compatible with all Sony PSP devices.
Tags: psp, RSS, tools

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December 4th, 2005

All Google blogs in one feed

For those of us following Google’s steps (and who’s not?) here is a link to a RSS feed which combines all of Google’s blog posts (over twelve blogs at this moment) into one feed (via blogsumer.com).
Tags: google, RSS

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December 4th, 2005

RSS 2 PDF

I’m not really sure what to do with this new service, but RSS2PDF makes it possible to convert a RSS-feed (or an OPML-file) to a PDF-file. There is an option available if you don’t want to convert images. Talking about images… they also have a special page for converting Flickr-feeds!
Tags: RSS, tools

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December 3rd, 2005

Trend Micro: RSS Virus is next

Security researchers at Trend Micro have pinpointed RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology as a lucrative target for future bot worm attacks. They warned that RSS feed hijacking will become commonplace when Microsoft ships IE7 that will feature built-in RSS support. IE7 will make RSS al lot easier and will be able to download (and execute?) […]

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December 3rd, 2005

RSS DJ: play your feed!

RSS DJ is a new style of RSS aggregator. This webbased service lets you mix different feeds where you can combine the feeds (podcasts) and artists (music tracks) together. But the coolest thing is that you can take any text based RSS feed (blogs, news feeds, anything), and automatically convert them to spoken word MP3 […]

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December 2nd, 2005

Yahoo RSS Alerts

Just after the RSS Reader in the new Yahoo! Mail, they’ve come up with IM, SMS or Email alerts to any RSS Feed out there. It’s called Feed/Blog Alerts and its live on alerts.yahoo.com. With Yahoo! Alerts tou can get real-time updates sent to your mobile phone, email or Yahoo! Messenger with triggers you can […]

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December 1st, 2005

Yahoo mail incorporates RSS

Yahoo Mail beta has launched new functionality so you can read and manage RSS-feeds online! With over 25 million people using My Yahoo! they seem to take RSS to an even bigger audience.
RSS in mail makes perfect sense for a few reasons:
1) people already spend a lot of time in their Mail experience, why shouldn’t […]

By Vincent -- 3 comments

December 1st, 2005

Feed for Thought

FeedBurner, known supplier of RSS stats, has begun an interesting series of market reports named ‘Feed For Thought‘. The first article is about how feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued and consumed. We’ve seen changes like this with blogs, with podcasts and now also with video. Now, more and more commercial publishers […]

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