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Archive for January 2007

January 19th, 2007

Is Google Reader the Biggest?

Michael Arrington over at Tech Crunch poses the question, Just How Big is Google Reader?
This begs an interesting question. How do we really know how big something is on the internet? Different metrics produce different results. Different programs use different methods of updating. Is there a real way to know who […]

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January 17th, 2007

USB Blanket

This has nothing to do with RSS directly but I love it!
Saw this over on Gizmodo. I want one!

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January 17th, 2007

Netscape’s Problem

Chris Finke over at the Netscape Blog writes about a potential feed problem with feed readers that use Netscape’s DTD for RSS 0.91.  This DTD file was left out of the mix when Netscape went to its new server last weekend.
Netwscape restored the file when they discovered the problem but it will only be there […]

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January 17th, 2007

Spinvox - finally in the US

Spinvox is a UK based company that converts voice-mail into text. This is a cool concept. Let’s say you get a cell call and can’t answer it right now. This service will convert the voice mail into text and serve it to your phone. You can see the voice mail and […]

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January 15th, 2007

Just Turn It Off? What A Concept!

Karl over at Tech Dirt just posted an article called, “Just Turn The @$!# Thing Off“. While I really like the article, I love the comments! Check it out.
While you’re here, don’t forget to take the Feed Is Born poll, here.

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January 14th, 2007

RSS on Your TV?

Sony thinks you can’t get enough news so they are adding RSS capability to many of their HDTV’s debuting this spring. It’s called “BRAVIA™ Internet Video Link” and it will be supported on Sony’s BRAVIA S-series flat-panel LCD high-definition television line which was also announced at CES. Of course, it won’t be just […]

By Cathy -- 5 comments

January 13th, 2007

A New Poll

Please take my poll.

Do you use RSS?

Can’t live without it!

Yes, a few times a week.

What’s RSS?

No, don’t use at all.

View Results

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January 12th, 2007

Prediction for 2007

My main prediction for 2007 is, in a word, widgets. Yes - they’ve been around for awhile but it seems like people are just figuring out what they are and what they can do. So - what are they? Here’s the definition from Wikipedia:
Widget (computing)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about […]

By Cathy -- 2 comments

January 11th, 2007

Speaking of Information Overload…

Another problem discovered. I posted about not being able to reply to comments. The culprit/savior, it seems, is Askismet. Akismet is a very valuable WordPress plug-in to catch spam. Unfortunately, it thinks I am a spammer! A confession is in order here - I’ve never spammed anyone in my entire […]

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January 11th, 2007

RSS Overload?

David Rothman over at davidrothman.net has a post on RSS overload.  He gives 5 tips for reducing RSS information overload.
I don’t have that problem because I use MyYahoo as my aggregator.  It’s great.  It puts the title or location of the feed and then the article titleof the 5 most recent posts.  (At least that’s […]

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