June 28th, 2006
Today I got an invitation to the private beta for myFeedz.com. myFeedz should be a social newspaper and find what’s important from the sea of information out there and shows you what you need to read. It learns from what you like and helps you keep up with your interests.
I signed up and had […]
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June 25th, 2006
Techcrunch writes about the Tag-metasearch engine Gada.be, they would be getting a name change and a redesign at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle later this week. The new service will be called TagJag (and offcourse online via TagJag.com). We wrote about Gada.be earlier, the service launched in October last year and should serve about 30,000 […]
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June 25th, 2006
Nielsen//NetRatings announced yesterday that broadband users are 3x more likely to use RSS over narrow-band users. The “Research” indicated that broadband users are more likely to make better use of Internet functionalities and newer technologies, such as RSS feeds and blogging. Not very shocking conclusions you might think, but just like Bill Flitter writes, it […]
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June 22nd, 2006
Simone Carletti from the RSS world in Italy has created a script to get your FeedBurner stats in any RSS reader! It uses the FeedBurner Awareness API. His quickstart is here and an example is here (via lineofsite). Now why didn’t Feedburner think of that?
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June 21st, 2006
For all you coders out there, I found a list of RSS parsers. All programs are webapplications and written in Java, Javascript, ASP, PHP, Python or Perl. They can aggregate and parse RSS feeds for use on your site. Handy! Via rss-script.com.
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June 19th, 2006
Steve Rubel has a great post about 35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today.
Some of the highlights for me are:
- Track drunk athletes (RSS)
- Subscribe to personal reminders
- Get notified when that must-have item pops up on eBay (RSS)
- Subscribe to movie reviews (RSS)
- Read the Bible one verse at a time (RSS)
- Get […]
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June 17th, 2006
Platial has a new service called Today Nearby, it is a very (very!) nice mashup of feeds from Reuters, Flickr, YouTube and others. The information from these feeds is put on a map and you can subscribe to this feed with KML and RSS. It’s great to see a local cityname when you arrive on […]
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June 14th, 2006
Alldvrnews.com writes about the coming demand for DVRs with RSS capabilities, which allows DVR users to subscribe to their favorite podcasts and vodcasts. At the same time I found this article on AdAge about Moqvo, which should be the new TiVo of the internet. Moqvo’s co-founder, Mr. Detwiler, calls the site a “social media center” […]
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June 11th, 2006
Attensa lets us know that Jupiter Research has published a report named “RSS Comes of Age: Budgeting, Deploying, and Measuring RSS” by Greg Dowling. Currently 29 percent of large companies ($50 million + in annual revenues) publish content via RSS. That number is projected to jump to 63% by the end of 2006… So that […]
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June 11th, 2006
Read/WriteWeb has a good comparison of some webbased and desktop RSS readers, with Best of Breed picks for each category. Be sure to also check out the comments, which are full of info about other interesting feedreaders.
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