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Archive for June 2008

June 30th, 2008

An updated Sage for an updated Firefox

Sean P. Aune at Mashable wrote this post, 30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions, and as the title aid gave the top or more accurately must-have extensions for Firefox 3. For A Feed Is Born one of the more interesting extensions that came with FF3 is the application called is Sage.
And Sage is an integrated […]

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June 28th, 2008

Newsgator and Dac sign deal to use widgets

Newsgator just inked a deal with Digital Advertising Consortium (DAC) that gives exclusive rights to DAC to NewsGator Widget Services to Japanese media companies and brands. This will allow DAC to market NewsGator Widgets for content syndication. [Source.]
What does NewsGator Widget Services do?
And why is there interest in it?
NewsGator Widget Services creates widgets that […]

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June 25th, 2008

RSS Bandit

I have been hearing about RSS Bandit for some time now. It is the sort of thing you read about it as one swims across the hundreds of RSS posts everyday. And no wonder it has undergone around ten releases.
RSS Bandit is an desktop based RSS Reader written within the .Net Framework.
What does RSS […]

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June 22nd, 2008

How would you improve RSS?

If you were going to improve RSS and information feeds what would you do? What features would you add or remove? The question is somewhat similar to designing the better mousetrap or Wile E. Coyote finding a way to catch the Road Runner. In the process make the Acme Co. a little bit richer. […]

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June 22nd, 2008

Kigose a reliable search for students, teachers and you

The Internet and the Web is a great place to store and look for information, data and knowledge. Now you often hear us talk about information overload. On the web there is also the problem of getting the correct information.
You know the situation: Anyone can and has set-up a website that will deliver […]

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June 22nd, 2008

Represent ideas with Wordle

Present information and knowledge with Wordle. Developed and offered for everyone by Jonathan Friedle. It is an on-line application that turns any set of text provided into a word cloud.
The application gives you a representation of your text based on frequently used words in the text. This one of the more effective ways of representing […]

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June 22nd, 2008

RSS online and off-line

A typhoon struck our place recently. This resulted in a few hours of life without electricity and even without Internet. Some of the ISPs were knocked out during the typhoon.
Luckily, the ultraportable named Mr E was powered up. And it was just a matter of looking for wifi to get back into the Internet.
Unfortunately, […]

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June 22nd, 2008

Getting into the Monthly Habit

RSS feeds like newspapers, books and notes have a tendency to grow. More so the posts and articles from an RSS feed. Its very nature is to grow. grow. grow and grow.
(i)If you do not check your RSS Reader for a day or two you will see yourself drowned in a sea of information […]

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June 22nd, 2008

FeedBooks is interesting because

There are two main things that makes Feedbooks interesting. The France-based company provides e-books for free in several formats and it allows you to read an RSS feed in PDF format.
It is not limited to searching and downloading e-books in different formats but FeedBooks also allows users to publish their work. Ready for the downloadable […]

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June 17th, 2008

Feedly a fresh read

All I can say is Feedly sexied up my Google Reader. If you are using FireFox as your browser you can install Feedly - which was formerly known as Feedo. It markets itself as one’s start-up page on your browser. Two important thing that it does:
1. It displays your Google Reader feeds like a […]

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