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Archive for October 2007

October 19th, 2007

Facebook and the forty or so RSS applications

Today, If you type the word RSS in the search field of Facebook you will find that there are sixty profiles, three hundred ninety-eight groups,twenty one events and forty-one applications. Imagine 41 applications with RSS on it in Facebook. This means 41 RSS readers, aggregators, and rss-related applications. And this in itself is an information […]

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October 18th, 2007

RSS as a marketing tool and more

RSS Solution company SimpleFeed released never-before-seen click through and conversion data that proves the success of using RSS marketing programs. The statistics were released at the Direct Marketing Association’s Conference, DMA07, in Chicago. These are aggregated results for Simple Feed’s RSS marketing and support customers for the first nine months of 2007. Interesting results and […]

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October 17th, 2007

A World Digital Library

In a signing ceremony in Paris the US Library of Congress and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO announced that they have joined forces to build a library that will store “unique and rare materials” from archives and libraries from all over the word [Source]
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October 17th, 2007

Why are subscriber numbers important?

The recent story about subscribers numbers brings, up a number of questions concerning subscriber count (how they are counted and why the discrepancies. But why all the hubbub over the number of subscribers? Is it an issue of popularly, marketing, on-line reputation, or something more?
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October 14th, 2007

The Technoweenie and the Technophile

I am in search for a notebook, a laptop, or a portable computer. Anything. It has been several years now since I have used one. In the past I used to use a notebook until I migrated to desk bound life. So her I am several years later now looking for a notebook. It is […]

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October 14th, 2007

Zany RSS feeds

Information need not be serious nor monotone. They can be funny, irreverent and even trivial. Can you imagine reading only serious stuff on the feed reader? Reading RSS feeds should not be boring as it sounds. Here is this weeks RSS feeds that does not fall into the dull but will at least into the […]

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October 14th, 2007

Disturbing news?

A news article posted on Macworld written by Nancy Goghring of the IDG News Services reports that the Associated Press (AP) has sued VeriSign over its news aggregation service, Moreover. The lawsuit aims to stop the VeriSign owned company from publishing the content of the AP. Morever offers a number of news aggregation services to […]

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October 13th, 2007

News clippings and RSS: Mother and Daughter ?

In Human history one of the more important fuels of change is information. How it is written and stored has a great impact on civilization. The shift from writing on clay tablets to sheep skin and to paper is a magnificent achievement because it made the information preservable and distributable for a larger audience possible. […]

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October 12th, 2007

ticTOCs delivers (Table of) Content

Imagine a service that sends out RSS feeds about RSS feeds that focuses on the Table of Contents (TOCs)of academic journals. The service is called the ticTOCs project and it is an endeavor of the UK-based Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
The project’s goal is to make available a current awareness program - focused on […]

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October 11th, 2007

I really just read Wai Wai for the titles

I like reading Wai Wai. Web feeds are not only for the serious and no frill users but also for those of us who enjoy the fine things in life or in certain situations the weird and the zany. You can suscribe to photos, twits, and even to podcasts.Although, I must confess I have been […]

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