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Archive for February 2007

February 13th, 2007

CNet News.com’s RSS Page Needs Help

Marjolein over at Clever Clogs has a rant about CNet News.com and the “underwhelming implementation of RSS functionality at CNET News.com”.
I agree with all her points but most with the implementation of full-text feeds instead of the first sentence of posts. Here’s an example:
Blog: Ever wanted to score some hot Michael Kors boots, […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

February 12th, 2007

Firefox Add-Ons Gets a Snazzy New Look

Welcome to Firefox Add-ons
Add-ons extend Firefox, letting you personalize your browsing experience. They can make a tiny tweak, or bring a whole new range of features to your favorite browser. Take a look around and make Firefox your own.
this is how the new Firefox Add-ons page begins. Today, Mozilla gave its add-ons page a […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

February 12th, 2007

A Feed Is Born Poll and News

Reminder - please vote in the poll, here. It will be closing soon.
If you haven’t already, sign up to get A Feed Is Born Daily News - your own newspaper from Simply Headlines with A Feed Is Born news plus news from other sources that you just can’t live without!

Sign up for the “A […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

February 10th, 2007

A Nice Mention About The Pipes Tutorial

LH over at Angriff der Klonröhren mentioned A Feed Is Born and the Pipes Tutorial by Mr. Speaker.
Of course, since I speak only English, I had to ask what was in the post. I got a very nice reply about the post as well as the website. Here is what LH said:
Hi Cathy, I just […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

February 10th, 2007

Are Politicians Missing Something?

An interesting post at Webware yesterday said, Barack Obama Getting All Web 2.0 On Us. All because he announced that he will put some sort of social networking up on his site. What’s missing? RSS! That led me to check on some other 2008 hopefuls to see what they are doing.
I […]

By Cathy -- 2 comments

February 9th, 2007

A Good Yahoo Pipes Tutorial

Mr. Speaker, who has quite an eclectic blog, has written a clear tutorial on Yahoo Pipes. It is neat and easy to follow. He starts with the basics - something Yahoo sort of forgot to do, by telling us how to display one feed. I’ve always thought it important to understand the […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

February 9th, 2007

Yahoo Pipes

There’s a lot of buzz about Yahoo Pipes. Yahoo says that Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.
Here is Yahoo’s definition of this service:

Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a […]

By Cathy -- 4 comments

February 7th, 2007

Canucks Fans - Listen Up!

Finally - all Canucks fans can get their Canucks news as it happens. Canucks.com has added an RSS Feed to their site.
They very kindly explain what RSS is and what it can do for you. Here’s all you need to know to get started:

How can I sign up to RSS feeds […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

February 7th, 2007

GMail With No Invitation? Not Quite!

Apparently GMail is now available without an invitation - sort of. If you give Google your cell phone number they will text you with an invitation.
If you don’t want Google to have your number (I’m sure they have your ‘number’ anyway), e-mail me, I’ll send you an invitation and you don’t even have to […]

By Cathy -- 4 comments

February 7th, 2007

Hackers Try But Fail To Take Down The Internet

This just in from Gizmodo:

Stupid Hackers Try to Take Down the Internet, Predictably Fail
Silly hackers! You cannot destroy the internet! It’s a pretty basic premise, that because the internet is a distributed network it’s pretty insusceptible to being taken down wholesale by a small band of pockmarked, greasy nerds, but that’s just what they tried […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments