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Archive for March 2006

March 14th, 2006

RSS and MS Vista

Wanna know more on RSS and Windows Vista? Check out this post from Niall Kennedy about the Windows RSS Platform: “Windows XP and Windows Vista users will soon be using Internet Explorer 7 as their default browser. They may notice a glowing orange button on their toolbar, click it, and start subscribing to feeds exposed […]

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March 13th, 2006

Flickr Favorites via RSS

I use Flickr a lot and I’m subscribed to a few tagged-feeds (tag: newzealand, tag: rotterdam, etc). Like a lot of other people I was wondering why Flickr hasn’t made standard feeds for favorites. Well, thank god for Nicolas Hoizey who has made this available from the outside: use this link and replace “USERNAME” with […]

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March 12th, 2006

Google video with RSS

An interesting post in the Google Groups has announced an alpha release of RSS feeds on Google Video!
This is the first release of RSS feeds on Google Video and they would like to receive feedback on the implementation. Specifically, they would like to make sure that all is standards-compliant and works well in a variety […]

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March 10th, 2006

Kiss my RSS!

Great stuff on kissmyrss.com; T-Shirts, coffee-cups, boxer shorts and even a classic thong! All feedlovers order here (via Kevin Burton).

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March 8th, 2006

RSS feeds for websites without feeds

Yep, FeedYes.com creates RSS feeds for websites without feeds! FeedYes should be able to give every website and even every page on a website its own unique feed. Even when a website does not suply regular feeds by itself. It seems to work pretty well, check out the feed for CBS Strange news or the […]

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March 7th, 2006

Bloglines vs Feedbuner

For some time now, Bloglines has been experiencing errors while attempting to retrieve posts from FeedBurner feeds. Marc commented about this on my post about Feedburner and b5’s Problogger wrote, more than a month ago, that FeedBurner knows about the problem and is working to resolve the issue. Meanwhile the problem is still not solved… […]

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March 6th, 2006

RSS for your Gmail labels

Via lifehacker I found this posting about “Gmail + labels + Atom”:
There are many emails which I passively consume: newsletters, job vacancies, forums, mailing lists (on which I lurk), banking alerts, blog comments, bug tracking, and so on. These emails may require action, but the action does not (usually) involve replying to the sender.
It seemed […]

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March 6th, 2006

FeedBucket

Another new(?) reader; FeedBucket provides a quick and easy way to view RSS. No need for a technical background — just enter an address to view the headlines. Registered users can store several feeds and view each feed individually or all of the recent top headlines at a glance in a “River of News” format…

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March 2nd, 2006

Rasasa RSS Reader

Rasasa is a Dutch RSS reader with a twist. It will send new RSS items to your messenger, if your online or text message you, if your offline (via kbcafe.com).

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March 2nd, 2006

Make money with the FeedShow aggregator

Wanne make money with your feed but don’t know how? Check out FeedShow.com, a new online RSS aggregator. I read some positive reviews about FeedShow, so it should be good. I only tested the demo-account and found it was nothing really specia,l but hey who knows… Interesting thing is that they also include a monetize […]

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