January 17th, 2006
Nick Bradbury announces FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 1 on his blog. They have decided to skip FeedDemon 1.6 and go straight to version 2.0, which will be a free upgrade for all FeedDemon customers.
It’s a pre-release but v2 should make it easier for new users to get started, and make it easier for power users to […]
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January 17th, 2006
Reliable sources are reporting that SearchFox, which will be shutting down as of January 25, has sold its assets to Yahoo! At least some of the employees have moved over to Yahoo as well. There is no indication of price and it is unclear whether this was a straight acquisition resulting in the announced shutdown, […]
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January 16th, 2006
I read on micropersuasion.com that indeed.com has launched a new feature that enables you to chart the percentage of all jobs that mention a particular word. Jobs with the word RSS have been steadily climbing, with a high peak in September. Anybody knows what was going on in that month?
Tags: RSS
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January 13th, 2006
Great news from Google, they’re taking mobile browsing to the next level. On the Google Mobile Personalized homepage you can view news headlines, weather, stock quotes, and offcourse feeds (Atom or RSS). The interface is optimized for small screens, and the best thing is that Google has arranged that the links are automatically transcoded into […]
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January 12th, 2006
FeedLounge was conceived by Alex King and Scott Sanders to provide a feed reader unlike any other product on the market. Although there are alotta feedreaders nowadays (and the first ones are already calling it quits), the guys think that there is a market for power users. FeedLounge wants to take personal and professional feed […]
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January 12th, 2006
Alex Barnett made a list with 20 thoughts relating Attention. A quick summary is that he thinks Attention data is much more than just clickstreams (check), it has to be an online/portable/shareable/secure service (check), there will be multiple, competing and overlapping Attention data formats (too bad, but I do think this will also be true). […]
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January 11th, 2006
Bill Flitter writes down some of the more interesting 2005 RSS happenings! If more consumers are gonna use RSS (or whatever the name will be), 2006 will be an even bigger year for RSS (via marketingfacts.nl).
Tags: RSS
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January 11th, 2006
The RSS aggregator market is overloaded. I think we’ll see a ot of the (online) readers shutting down this year, one of the first is SearchFox RSS. Esteban Kozak writes that the service will be shut down on January 25.
Tags: feedreader, searchfox
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January 9th, 2006
Wikicompany (a global wiki business directory, read this) is now able to return RSS feeds for full-text search results. An example is the feed for brewery. This RSS feature is now also used in all the company profiles to show related articles to a company (via wikicompany.wordpress.com).
Tags: RSS, wiki
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January 6th, 2006
Nice post from Charles Arthur, editor of the Guardian Technology Section, on why he says no to Public Relations (PR) e-mails: “And I’m saying NO to any more emails from you, thanks very much. You clearly have no idea what I write about, and that is a cardinal sin in a PR company.”
PR needs to […]
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