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Archive for March 2006

March 23rd, 2006

Introduction on OPML and Reading lists

Here’s a good introduction to reading lists (OPML) that I found via The Digitalyst. The article is written by Pito Salas from Blogbridge, a free newsreader.
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March 23rd, 2006

RSS feed for your FTP filelist

Yesterday Jon from newlinuxuser.com asked me if I knew about some sort of script that would generate a feed for all files in a specific directory. I did not, but just today I stumbled upon this tutorial from Mark Woodman. He wrote a PHP script to get the job done, it’s no rocket science but […]

By Vincent -- 2 comments

March 21st, 2006

Newsgator online syncs with Vista and IE7

Got an e-mail from Newsgator yesterday but I didn’t have the time to write about it, so here it is;) NewsGator has announced synchronization plans between Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 and the NewsGator family of RSS products. This was demonstrated during keynote and breakout sessions at the MIX 06 Conference:
The synchronization will enable users […]

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March 20th, 2006

OPML Galore!

Lockergnome has an excellent article about OPML and the use of gada.be. Because next to RSS there’s another XML document standard emerging: OPML. In plain English, it stands for “Outline Processor Markup Language”.
Nowadays you can easily import OPML into your RSS aggregator. Gada has made a OPML search URL document that’s populated with any given […]

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March 20th, 2006

AOL IM and RSS

AOL said it would launch a new publishing tool last Friday to link a user’s blogging activities with their instant messaging. The idea is that their buddy list would be pinged when the user posts a new blog entry. It would be in essence turning AIM into a massive RSS engine… The tool is part […]

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March 19th, 2006

Interview with VP FeedBurner

Marshall Kirkpatrick has an interview with Rick Klau, Vice President of Business Development for the RSS feed managing service FeedBurner. They talk about adoption, analytics, non-reproducable services, advertising, branding, avoiding lock-in, international issues and future ubiquity/impacts. Nice read!
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March 17th, 2006

34% uses RSS in China!

Wow! I’m moving to China;) The top three (Web 2.0?) services in China are blog, WAP and RSS. It seems that about 34.4 percent of Chinese Internet users use RSS! This was surveyed through 2,689 people on 230 Web sites… Ok, that’s not a big survey but that percentage is really high!
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March 16th, 2006

Grazr, OPML and sidebar reading lists

I’ve been reading more and more about Grazr the last couple of days and it now seems to be open for testing. They got a new version of the grazr.com homepage which links to the blog, a sandbox and a link with instructions for installing it on your own web page. But what does it […]

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March 16th, 2006

FeedTree p2p RSS

FeedTree version 0.7.2 is available for download. FeedTree is a peer-to-peer service that helps the way RSS feeds are distributed. FeedTree brings news feed updates to users, instead of the other way around. A p2p system is used to share the latest Web feed updates. News arrives immediately, instead of on a polling schedule, making […]

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March 15th, 2006

NewsGator focuses on mobile

NewsGator has announced its mobile strategy and it looks very promising. They are releasing new RSS aggregators for Windows Mobile and J2ME-enabled devices. The new products accompany the NewsGator Mobile reader for HTML-enabled devices as part of the industry’s most complete mobile RSS catalog. All three mobile products synchronize with the NewsGator family of […]

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