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April 18th, 2006

78% of RSS users are male

AdAge Interactive Fact Pack (PDF via micropersuasion): 78% of RSS feed users are male!
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April 17th, 2006

Send iTunes lib to your PSP via RSS

You have a PSP (Sony PlayStation Portable), you use iTunes, but you wanna copy your iTunes library to your PSP? How? Skattertech has a tutorial on howto stream non-copyright music from your iTunes library to a PSP via RSS. You do need to have a XP PC, a WiFi router, Apple iTunes, a PSP and […]

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April 13th, 2006

Zixxo RSS coupons

Zixxo provides a web-based coupon creation, management and syndication network that enables businesses to reward favorable behavior by local consumers.
They have launched a great new service; local coupons via RSS. Techcrunch calls it a very big market (see stats). Last year, 323 billion coupons were distributed in the U.S., and of those 4.5 billion […]

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April 13th, 2006

Google Calendar RSS?

Ok, you must know about Google Calendar by now because the news is spreading like crazy. First thing that I noticed is that there isn’t any export function… Seems to me that RSS export is the first thing you would ask for? 30Boxes has it and rsscalender offcourse, so what’s up with Google?
Update 1: Google […]

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April 12th, 2006

Info overload

Social Memory Complex:
The more content you queue up for yourself, the more time you need to take to sift through those articles, links, posts, etc. to find the worthy content and make sense of it - let alone make creative use of it. Indeed, one researcher has concluded that too much information can make you […]

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April 12th, 2006

RSS Advertising

One of the things I love about RSS is that it’s simple, clean and quick. I dont really care if there’s advertising in a feed (or on a site), as long as it’s relevant and the content is good! Size and relevancy are very important, so don’t create ads that oversize the content…
A few weeks […]

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April 7th, 2006

Qumana is hot

Qumana is all over the news the last couple of days. Mainly because Lycos announced a new desktop blog editing tool, which is powered by Qumana. The tool is a Desktop Blog Editor and allows users to publish to their Tripod and Angelfire Blogs on Lycos, as well as to other major blogging sites, all […]

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April 6th, 2006

FeedHarvest into beta

While we have enough online feedreaders already, there always seems to be room for one more. It’s called FeedHarvest and it is an ajaxified, web based RSS feedreader that has just moved into beta mode. So if you’re the testing type and would like to try a new feed reader then head over to test.feedharvest.com […]

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April 6th, 2006

Feedburner Ad Network is coming

Feedburner is gradually but increasingly opening the FeedBurner Ad Network (FAN) to more and more publishers. The next few months they will make announcements for publishers who want to make money from their content.
We want to make sure the network performs as it’s intended and all participants find the experience worthwhile (read: they generate revenue). […]

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April 6th, 2006

RSS Mayday! Tell a friend…

Why should we have to wait for MS Vista before the rest of the world will use RSS? Steve Rubel lets us know we need to take some responsibility in getting everyone else on our teams using a feedreader. RSS is the single most important information tool to land on anyone’s desktop this decade (not […]

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