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April 3rd, 2007

SplashCast - Mixed Media RSS

Marshall Kirkpatrick over at SplashCast has thoughts on ‘10 Things You Can Do with Mixed Media RSS’. We just got RSS down pat and now we have mixed media RSS? Here is how Marshall defines it; ‘it’s a feed created for the delivery of video, photos, audio files and other media items all […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

March 8th, 2007

The Yahoo! Joke Is On Me!

Carolyn McCarthy over at Webware (a Cnet site) writes about the new MyYahoo released today in beta. As slow as Yahoo is sometimes, I thought the current MyYahoo might still be beta! Anyway, I wanted to see it so I clicked on the link. Seems like if you already have a MyYahoo […]

By Cathy -- 2 comments

February 20th, 2007

RSS Metagator?

CnetNews.com has coined a new word - metagators. This obviously means a huge aggregator but how does Pageflakes get that honor? It’s not more feature laden than Netvibes or My Yahoo or any other start page I can think of.
What makes this feed reader special enough for someone to invent a […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

February 17th, 2007

Adobe Enters The RSS Fray

Amit Agarwal over at Digital Inspiration reports that Adobe has introduced its feedreader call myFeedz. Here’s what he has to say about it:
Unlike other web based RSS readers like Google Reader or Bloglines, myFeeds tries to learn from what you read regularly and accordingly displays news items / blog posts that might be of […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

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 4th, 2007

Create Your Own RSS Feed Even If You Don’t Have A Blog

Another new piece of software called Sabifoo has so many possibilities that my mind is reeling! Just imagine creating your own personal RSS feed and making it available to family and friends. The feed can be added to any feed reader and as soon as you update it with your existing IM software […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

February 2nd, 2007

RSS For Your Ears?

Just ran across this cool aggregator. It’s called earFeeder by sonicswap. It scans your system for music and automagically detects your favorite artists. Then it generates an RSS newsfeed tailored to you. It subscribes to those feeds so you never miss anything about your favorite artists. The feed contains news, new releases, announcements of ticket […]

By Cathy -- 8 comments

January 30th, 2007

Serendipity Responds!

The other day I posted about Serendipity and their new offering, Enterprise Web 2.0. Dave Leandra, VP of marketing and product strategy at Serendipity was kind enough to offer a comment:

“I was suprised to read your opinion about our announcement without even reaching out to us. While skepticism is healthy - cynicism is not.
A […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

January 28th, 2007

IE7 RSS Add-On

IE7 has a plug-in called ‘Feeds Plus’ that, according to the IE folks, “…makes your feed reading experience easy and efficient.” Here is the dislaimer, “This add on was developed by members of the IE RSS team at Microsoft. Note that Feeds Plus is not an official product and hence is not […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

January 26th, 2007

Is It Safe Because They Say So?

Java sys-con reports that Serendipity Enterprises is introducing the ‘world’s first secure RSS reader’ called Enterprise Web 2.0.
Here is what they say, “…consumers will be able to securely receive customer-specific information from stores, banks, utilities and other organizations.”
David Lavenda, VP of marketing and product strategy at Serendipity Technologies further said, “This unique Web 2.0 tool […]

By Cathy -- 5 comments

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