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Archive for May 2006

May 11th, 2006

Google Trends and RSS

You may have noticed the new Google tool called Google Trends. With this tool you can get insights into broad search patterns. It shows you graphs with the number of searches for a specific keyword and the number of times the keyword was named in the news. I tested some of the feed-related keywords and […]

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May 10th, 2006

GeoRSS: Get locations in your RSS

The Geonames “RSS to GeoRSS Converter” reads the entries of an RSS feed and searches the Geonames Database to find a location for the entry text. If a relevant location is found, its latitude and longitude are added to the RSS feed using the GeoRSS encoding (via rss-specifications.com).
It works pretty good, check out this example […]

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May 9th, 2006

MyTunesRSS: share your music

MyTunesRSS is an application for configuring and starting some sort of iTunes-server. You can access this server with any web browser, search your iTunes music library and create an individual play list. This playlist is published as an RSS feed with the feed items containing links to the music files. These files are served through […]

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May 8th, 2006

Share Your OPML

More on OPML because Dave Winer has published his new “Share Your OPML” site. First, you upload your OPML file (the list of RSS feeds to which you subscribe). Then you can see who subscribes to the same feeds that you do. For example, here’s who subscribes to my feed. You can also browse lists […]

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May 5th, 2006

New Feed Search initiatives

Two new RSS search engines I came across the last couple of days. I’m talking about feedsee.com (a search engine for RSS and Atom Feeds) and kebberfegg. This last one reminds me a bit of gada.be. It is a tool to help you generate large sets of keyword-based RSS feeds at one time. Keyword-based RSS […]

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May 5th, 2006

FeedBurner has a new site

FeedBurner has a new site, so what’s new you might think. Well, I just really like the way they did the subtle redesign and the way they present themselves. And best of all is the Flickr feed they’ve got, every company should do that! Word up!
Tags: feedburner, RSS

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May 2nd, 2006

RSS Advertisers go to FeedBurner

After their first announcement about FAN FeedBurner lets us know they have designed a self-service interface to make the ad-buying process easier for advertisers. There’s a screenshot here and it looks really good!
The new self-service tools provide a quick way to bypass human contact and purchase media directly via the FeedBurner Web site. If you […]

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May 2nd, 2006

Using RSS for the nonprofit sector

Check out the RSS Resource Center on NetSquared. This page will provide stories, examples, discussion forums and links to great content to help nonprofit groups make strategic use of publishing and aggregating RSS feeds. It’s sort of a spin-off from TechSoup.org, this is a huge technology resource for non-profit groups (via digg.com).
Tags: nonprofit, RSS

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