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Archive for February 2006

February 26th, 2006

MSN Weather RSS

Steve writes about MSN Weather that now has RSS feeds. Just enter your zip code and look for the RSS button. It’s about time! These were here before: weather.yahoo.com/rss/, rssweather.com and rss.weatherbug.com…
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February 26th, 2006

Wireless photoframe uses RSS

PhotoVu, the leading company in making wireless digital picture frames, announced a major new software release enabling PhotoVu owners to download public content using RSS. This is possible from four popular photo sharing services: Flickr, Apple iPhoto 6 Photocasts, MSN Spaces, and SmugMug.
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February 26th, 2006

Happy Birthday Feedburner!

FeedBurner yesterday celebrated its 2-year anniversary since pre-alpha launch. They already manage 208,474 feeds for 135,239 publishers, that’s a lot! Although I’m a few hours late I wanna say great job guys!
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February 22nd, 2006

Technorati favorites

Writing about ScoopGo I ran across some info about Technorati announcing that they are offering a brand new feature: Technorati Favorites. It’s another way of searching your favorite feeds so you have a good chance of finding the most relevant information. You can import and share your favorite feeds (David Sifry). Offcourse there’s […]

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February 22nd, 2006

ScoopGO: search your feeds!

ScoopGO! is a search engine that searches feeds you choose. It’s an alpha version and still in development but I think the basic idea is kinda good. Import an OPML file and search within your area of interest (via micropersuasion)…
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February 20th, 2006

Scoble on information overload

Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s prime blogger, chaired a session on Information Overload in BloggerCon III, an annual conference organized by Dave Winer. In this Overload session (podlink) we can listen to many requirements evolving around RSS readers, aggregators and filters. Users want their content to be filtered geographically; based on their social networks; based on authority […]

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February 20th, 2006

RSS board receiving money from companies?

Dave Winner on the several small companies (Newsgator, SixApart, Feedburner and Technorati) that may be trying to control the evolution of the RSS format:
I would also like to know what interests the other members of this group have. Are they receiving money from the companies? Do they have any conflicts of interest? Do they assume […]

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February 19th, 2006

FeedShare Blog Ad Network

Rojo, the company that helps people discover and consume content, has launched a beta version of FeedShare, an ad-supported feed network designed to increase sites’ feed subscriptions. It works like this: you put Feed Listings (which look like adsense ads) on your site to promote other blogs in the network and in return your blog […]

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February 16th, 2006

Publi.sh personal feeding

Some fresh feeding over at http://publi.sh. You are able to create a feed and post new articles in that feed. It’s like blogging without a blog! The site says you can use it for personal reminders or for updating team members, friends or family.
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February 15th, 2006

quickSub RSS button

quickSub is a Javascript function that adds intelligence to the XML-feedbutton on your web page. Just roll your mouse over button and you’ll be instantly greeted by one-click subscription links to the most popular aggregators.
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