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 September 2006

September 21st, 2006

RSS the Oprah way

Want to explain to your girlfriend/wife what RSS is, but you’re getting tired of being misunderstood? Try it the Oprah way… Stephanie Quilao has written a great post about this and explains nicely what RSS does. Conclusion: you can use it to get all the headlines of the most current stories from all your favorite […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

September 21st, 2006

Grazr is live

Grazr, the mini OPML browser en soon-to-be publishing platform, just launched version 1.0. Last time I wrote about it it was in Beta but now they have a fresh designed website and the grazr itself has also been updated. And like Techcrunch puts it: Grazr isn’t a mini feed reader, it’s a tool for displaying […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

September 14th, 2006

Your own digital newsletter via RSS

Some great stuff via Steve Rubel: SimplyHeadlines.com. This could be something for the masses! The site will take your favorite feeds and turn them into a newspaper format that’s emailed to you daily. You can choose from a pretty HTML version or a Blackberry-friendly text version. Sounds good…
Tags: RSS, toolsShare This

By Vincent -- 3 comments

September 11th, 2006

PayPal co-founder vs Information Overload

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as a new venture! He wants to free people from the tyranny of information overload. The company is called Slide and was already founded in 2004. Their product is a deceptively simple desktop widget that, as its name suggests, displays slide shows…
Slide lets users choose to stream everything from eBay and […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

September 10th, 2006

MS Max with RSS and Atom

Microsoft® Codename Max is some sort of blogging/Flickr-tool which makes it possible to add beautiful photo slideshows and share these with your family and friends. With the newest release, MS is excited to give you the ability to add RSS and ATOM feeds to Max for viewing in an attractive newspaper layout (via blogs.msdn.com/max).
Tags: microsoft, […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

September 8th, 2006

American ExpRSS

Email campaigns are dead! Now you have a new and simple way to receive up-to-the-minute offers and information online from American Express, via RSS! Rebecca Lieb of ClickZ says: This is a big win for syndication fans. American Express is a big influencer. Others are sure to follow. (via pheedo)
Tags: RSSShare This

By Vincent -- 2 comments

September 8th, 2006

Six Apart Buys Rojo

Om Malik reports that blogging company Six Apart will soon announce it has purchased Rojo! It seems Six Apart won’t be adding an aggregator based on Rojo, but instead incorporating some elements of the technology into its existing products. The Rojo.com site (the online feed reader) and Rojo’s weekly feed roundup newsletter could become a […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

Site Meter
Close
E-mail It