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Archive for July 2006

July 13th, 2006

Yahoo clustered RSS reader

Yahoo! Research seems to have launched an experimental topic clustered RSS reader that presents a collection of feeds in relevant groups similar to the way Google News groups stories. Bad news is the reader needs the Yahoo Widget Engine?!? Why is that? I don’t want to install any stuff, I want it anyplace anytime, online! […]

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July 13th, 2006

NY Times RSS Service Beta Test

Betanews.com is reporting that The New York Times is testing a new site which is called “My Times”. This service should be some sort of personal news page from a variety of RSS feeds.
My Times users can add feeds from the New York Times itself, as well as a number of third party blogs and […]

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July 6th, 2006

Publishers and RSS

Internetnews has an article on how Publishers can survive in an RSS age. Two interesting things came forward in this article.
- According to Ask.com, subscribers to its free RSS aggregator Bloglines jumped by 300 percent between June 2005 and June 2006. Wow, we’re heading in the right direction! And great news for Bloglines offcourse! […]

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July 4th, 2006

Check Caller ID via RSS!

Ok, I don’t know how this works but it sounds way cool! Matt Collinge has made a small PHP script to parse the YAC log file and strip out any useful info. FeedCreator is used to create a quick RSS feed from the data. This way you can follow the details of your last 10 […]

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July 4th, 2006

OPML Icon

Next tot the standard RSS Icon we also needed a standard for OPML. Chris Pirillo has made an interesting suggestion for such a logo. Nice!
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July 2nd, 2006

Scoble about RSS

Wired has an interview with Scoble (ex-Microsoft) and he also has some good views on RSS! He talks about the fact that RSS is mainly for all newsjunkies out there:
In an RSS aggregator it shows you any new things, so it makes it so much more productive. So the first thing I ask is, do […]

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July 1st, 2006

Summertime Sport events with RSS

Today the Tour de France will start and I need some feeds to keep me updated. The official site (letour.org) doesn’t seem to cooperate so I found this RSS feed on espn.com. And for all the Wimbledon freaks over there, check out this feed on wimbledon.org.
If anybody got some more sports-feeds I should check the […]

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July 1st, 2006

IE7 Beta 3: more feeds?

Read Feeds with Ease in IE7 Beta 3! That’s what they’re saying at the rssblog on msdn.com. Well, Microsoft is clearly not ready for 2006, they needed tips from beta-testers to understand that options like “Refresh All Feeds” and “Control Marking a Feed as Read” we’re missing. So… I hope you enjoy these improvements! And […]

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