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Archive for October 2007

October 9th, 2007

An IBM Mashup for the non-techies

A IBM has a mashup platform called er well if you guessed that it is called the IBM Mashup Starter Kit … well then you are a hundred and one percent correct. But what is the purpose of the IBM Mashup Starter Kit? Well in the words of Big Blue the mashup platform would allow […]

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October 8th, 2007

Instant Feeds

Do you want to create and instant RSS feed for anything? Almost hassle free and would only take you approximately between five to ten minutes ? If you are in a rush and would like to have an instant RSS feed this might be a good thing to know.I do not think its a new […]

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October 7th, 2007

RSS and stalking

Like anything in this world RSS can be abused. No I am not talking about being overwhelmed by information. Nor am I referring to RSS or web feeds being used to dump countless of ads unto the punters. No Sir, This is the potential use of RSS or even Atom feeds to cyberstalk someone.

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October 5th, 2007

The Great Firewall of China blocks RSS Feeds

There are things in life that one cannot just ignore. A few posts back there were some unsettling news that surfaced about China blocking RSS feeds, original post here. Based on the article from Ars Technica, China’s Public Security Bureau or PBS have extended the block to all incoming URLs that begin with “feeds,” “rss,” […]

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October 4th, 2007

Warning! Warning! Danger! Danger! FeedSmith users

Attention all WordPress punters! it is time re-install the new version of Feedburner’s FeedSmith plugin and it is for a very good reason - SECURITY. Burning Questions: The official FeedBurner weblog has announced that Feedburner Feedsmith - the plugin for WordPress, which counts all of your blog’s traffic via Feedburner - has a […]

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October 3rd, 2007

Blogline’s Trifecta

To most people a Trifecta is a betting term involving horses; three races; and a betting spread. But in this instance and in this story we are referring to a slang term that is used to describe a favorable or succesful phenomenon that comes in three. For example, Bloglines has announced that it now supports […]

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October 3rd, 2007

Shrook the RSS and Atom News Reader updated

Shrook, The free RSS and Atom desktop feed reader for Mac, is refurbished as v2.6, which now includes (i) Fully multi-threaded XML processing; (ii) Fixed serious attachments bug and (iii) Other minor improvements [Source]. Mac feed reader promote itself as the next-generation news reader for Mac, but also has features not available to Mac users.

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October 2nd, 2007

RSS Profile is up and about

After 18 months of work the RSS Advisory Board has come up with RSS Profile - a document that aims to be the second document that programmers consult when implementing RSS, in other words a set of best-practice recommendations for RSS. The lead authors of RSS Profile are James Holderness, Randy Charles Morin, Geoffrey Sneddon […]

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