b5media.com

Advertise with us

Enjoying this blog? Check out the rest of the Technology Channel Subscribe to this Feed

A Feed Is Born

Archive for August 2006

August 27th, 2006

iTunes Music Store RSS Generator

Apple (iTunes) has a great online tool for finding new releases, todays top songs, todays top albums, featured songs, etc. The tools is called the iTunes Music Store RSS Generator and also has an option for the genre and the language/location of the iTunes store (US, Canada, Netherlands, etc). Very useful for all music lovers!
Tags: […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

August 27th, 2006

Nintendo News RSS

The XBOX RSS feed must have woken up somebody at Nintendo HQ, because the Japanese company is now also offering an RSS feed for their news-channel. So if you want to be the first to know when Wii launches in Europe, or you want to know when to expect Super Mario 24 to hit the […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

August 21st, 2006

FeedCrier: more RSS and IM

Adam Kalsey, a founder and former CTO of RSS vendor Pheedo, has released a new service called FeedCrier. This service makes it easy to receive IM-notifications of new items in an RSS feed, just like the Rasasa-service where I wrote about before.
FeedCrier currently supports only AIM but that will change soon. Free accounts are limited, […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

August 20th, 2006

xFruits RSS services

xFruits is sweet! It’s a suite of RSS services that’s all about feeds. You can use xFruits as an aggregator, to create a PDF from your feed, add a mobile feed or even post to RSS via e-mail. All these services areen’t really new but why use different sites and logins if it can be […]

By Vincent -- 2 comments

August 15th, 2006

Nabaztag: WiFi rabbit with RSS

Meet Nabaztag, an energizer rabbit. Since its market debut last year, 50,000 Nabaztags have been sold in France, Britain, Belgium and Switzerland, and its creator hopes to sell 150,000 by the end of this year. The rabbit uses WiFi and can read things like RSS feeds, e-mails and weather reports out loud (via rss-specifications.com).
ThinkGeek has […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

August 9th, 2006

Daily Horoscope RSS via Yahoo Astrology

Ernest Oporto was looking for the Yahoo! Astrology RSS feed, offcourse they didn’t have any so he decided to create the feed himself. He now has a service which screen scrapes the Yahoo horoscope page, copy the link that belongs to your sign: capricorn, aquarius, pisces, aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, virgo, libra, scorpio, sagittarius.
Great […]

By Vincent -- 2 comments

August 9th, 2006

RSS Guru Niall Kennedy leaves MS

After only four months since RSS guru and former Technorati engineer Niall Kennedy started at Microsoft, he is already leaving. He announced through his personal blog that he quits his job at Microsoft effective August 18, the reason for leaving is frustration with the company’s handling of Windows Live: “Windows Live is under some heavy […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

August 8th, 2006

RSS Tattoo

Anybody thinking of getting an RSS tattoo? Drew Olanoff did it, he has used an image which combines RSS and Podcasting: RSS 4 Life.
Tags: podcast, RSSShare This

By Vincent -- 1 comment

August 5th, 2006

DiggFiltr: Custom Digg RSS

Digg rules, that much we know. And there’s already some sort of spinoff: DiggFiltr. With DiggFiltr you can select Digg categories and subcategories for which the service will generate a custom RSS feed. Sounds good but I really miss the ability to add custom keywords and filters…
Tags: digg, RSS, toolsShare This

By Vincent -- 4 comments

August 2nd, 2006

Disallow feed access for RSS and ATOM

Ever had a feed that you wanted to be private? Then you might know that this is a hard thing to do, because feeds are being spidered by more and more services (readers, search engines, reading lists, etc) so a robots.txt isn’t helping anymore. Bloglines to the rescue because they are proposing an RSS and […]

By Vincent -- 1 comment

Site Meter
Close
E-mail It