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Archive for January 2008

January 20th, 2008

What are you?

In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travel one of the more famous stories was his visit to Lilliput. And one of the side stories was the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu. A war started because of a dispute between which side of a boiled egg should be cracked. So it was a war between Big-endians and Little-endians.
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January 18th, 2008

Arguments for the desktop Feed Reader

Ever since NewsGator made its non-enterprise applications free. There has been an increase in the posts arguing or more accurately stating the advantages of having a desktop feed reader.
Enterprise RSS gives a good argument for getting a desk top feed reader in the post Why Use a Desktop Feed Reader.

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January 17th, 2008

More than one way to tag an RSS Feed

The actual phrase is there is more than one way to skin a cat. People who study word and phrase origins have several explanations on the origins of this phrase - the explanation ranges from preparation of a catfish; something to do with gymnastics and exercises; and of course the actual removal of the hide […]

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January 16th, 2008

Library of Congress opens a Flickr account

This is good news for on-line infophiles and fellow appreciators of quality information. The Library of Congress has opened an account in Flickr, here is their page. If there is anything beyond a pro-account they should get it.
Here are the details on the Library of Congress Blog posted as My Friend Flickr: A Match Made […]

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January 16th, 2008

AppleTV would have been great except

Saul Hansell wrote this interesting article for the New York Times blogs called Bits: Video Podcasts: The Sleeping Giant on AppleTV. It looks great! I checked out the specifics of the service at Apple here. Apple’s pitch for the service could be listed down as:

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January 15th, 2008

Alternatives to Google or Wikipedia

Stan Schroeder wrote an interesting post about this teacher who instructed her students to refrain from using Google and Wikipedia. See Google is White Bread for the Mind, Says Teacher . Previously, he also wrote the post Why Google is Making Us Dumber. Both for Mashable. This is not the first time people complained about […]

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January 14th, 2008

Re-Introducing RSS Education Tools

January seems to be the right time to introduce RSS education tools. Amidst the financing deals, the business models adopted and the interest in RSS it just seem right to introduce a couple of RSS Education videoe on can use to spread the Gospel that RSS and web feeds are good and can improve your […]

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January 14th, 2008

RSS gets ZapTXT

RSS is a way to get news, post and articles from a blog or website without going to that particular website. Like what the acronym says, RSS is Really Simple Syndication, RSS puts the S in Simple in information syndication. As of late there has been attempts to “simplify” this further with services and apps […]

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January 14th, 2008

Making money from RSS feeds

Bidvertiser now offers ads that can be placed in RSS feeds. Bloggers and Publishers get to be paid on a pay-per-click basis [Source]. And its now in beta public mode.

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January 11th, 2008

Is this why I should buy an Apple?

Envy is the word that describes the feeling I have when I read such posts and articles. And the source of envy stems from two things: First, service and the Second, is the software available. Just look at these developments.

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