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Archive for March 2006

March 31st, 2006

Review of Webbased FeedReaders

TechCrunch (uhh, i mean Frank Gruber) examined nine web-based feed readers (Attensa Online, Bloglines, FeedLounge, Google Reader, Gritwire, News Alloy, NewsGator Online, Pluck Web Edition, Rojo).
Not much of a shock here, Google Reader and FeedLounge are the fastest in performace. Bloglines and Rojo are the best choice for a feature rich application. Except none seem […]

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March 30th, 2006

Answers.com daily RSS feeds

Answers.com publishes some nice daily feeds. Check out the “This Day in History“-feed, the “Birthdays Today“-feed or the “Word of the Day“-feed (via web2learning.net).
Tags: answers, daily, RSSShare This

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March 30th, 2006

Touchstone attention management

Steve Rubel wrote about Touchstone this week. The application should be some sort of attention management engine, which streams RSS feeds to your desktop using a set of rules as a filter. This should allow you to customize what’s important when. The new FeedDemon 2.0 does the same thing and the beta of NetNewswire also […]

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March 29th, 2006

KeoTag searches social services

With Keotag you can search for a specific keyword (tag) and it will search all of the major social software tools and find items that have this tag. And offcourse each search has a feed! Like Steve writes; Tags and RSS are by far the two key “standards” that are going to glue all of […]

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March 28th, 2006

Tools for your OPML

OPMLWorkstation is around for some time but they’ve released a new version this weekend. OPMLWorkstation.com is a service to create, import, convert, host and publish OPML files. The site has an online OPML editor and will host your private or public OPML file (via Emily Chang). Oh, and be sure to also check out opmlsearch.com […]

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March 28th, 2006

Custom music feeds with last.fm

NOGG3R5 has a description on his site about creating custom “Recent Music Feeds” with FeedDigest, Last.fm and Audioscrobbler. This custom music-list can be published in the sidebar of your blog and works with Firefox and IE!
Tags: feeddigest, mp3, toolsShare This

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March 28th, 2006

Newsgator coming through

NewsGator has been very busy! Lately they’ve been working with Vista and checking out the mobile market. Now they are releasing NewsGator Inbox 2.6 (formerly NewsGator Outlook Edition) and FeedDemon 2.0, finally;) The release marks the first major update of the product since NewsGator’s acquisition of FeedDemon developer Bradbury Software in May of 2005. The […]

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March 26th, 2006

Not Attention, but Gestures!

Attention is so 5 minutes ago, what we need are ‘Gestures’! I’ve just read an interesting post on zdnet.com (from Steve Gillmor) about GestureBank (via fredscapes.nl). The article is dated a while back but to be sincere I never heard of it before. Steve writes about the fact that current information is created in a […]

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March 24th, 2006

Filter your RSS

“Feed Rinse” is a new service that can filter your feeds. You can rinse your feeds by keyword, author, tag, etc, or filter profanity and more. After the filtering your RSS reader of choice simply retrieves the clean feeds. Check it out on feedrinse.com.
Tags: feedrinse, RSS, toolsShare This

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March 23rd, 2006

Bill Gates’ MIX06 Speech, a must read…

The transcript of Bill Gates’ keynote at the Microsoft MIX06 conference is a must read. Especially because he dedicated a fair amount of time to RSS! It’s just like I wrote before; 2006 is the year of RSS;) Bill also sounds very enthousiastic and speaks about managing feeds with API’s, SSE and the Windows Communication […]

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