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A Feed Is Born

Archive for the ‘Fresh feeding’ Category

January 25th, 2007

Is The IRS After You?

Here’s a disturbing post at Wired News. This is just the kind of thing I was talking about last week. It seems that tax agencies in some countries (the IRS would neither confirm nor deny its use) are crawling the web to catch what they assume are tax cheaters.
The program is called Xenon. […]

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January 24th, 2007

Podcasts at Open Culture

I’m really liking Open Culture.  Lots of interesting stuff there.  But yesterday they compiled a list of cool podcasts that aren’t available through their RSS feed.  Here’s what they say:
The only downside to using a feed reader (Bloglines, Google Reader, MyYahoo, etc.) to access Open Culture is that you won’t be able to see our […]

By Cathy -- 5 comments

January 20th, 2007

A Feed Is Born: Daily News

You can get A Feed Is Born delivered daily to your inbox by Simply Headlines. This is your own newspaper - you can change the features you receive and the order of the paper. This is so cool - I read mine every morning while I drink my coffee!

Sign up for the “A […]

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January 17th, 2007

Spinvox - finally in the US

Spinvox is a UK based company that converts voice-mail into text. This is a cool concept. Let’s say you get a cell call and can’t answer it right now. This service will convert the voice mail into text and serve it to your phone. You can see the voice mail and […]

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January 9th, 2007

Google Reader

Over at The Official Google Reader Blog, Google Engineer, Mihai Parparita reports that Google’s browser-based reader now includes a Reader Trends page.
For Google Reader users, particularly those with hundreds of RSS subscriptions, this will offer some useful insight into where one’s attention is being spent. For data geeks, it’s a really […]

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October 4th, 2006

RSS widgets for your Nokia handset

You can now get widgets for your Nokia handset, including RSS widgets, Flickr widgets and more! The released widgets for the mobile world are called WidSets (via ajaxian.com).

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October 1st, 2006

Scoop: Touchstone does APML

Tomorrow the creators of Touchstone will announce a new initiative to implement a “Attention Profiling Mark-up Language” or APML. This new standard should allow users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows them to export their reading lists from Feed Readers. The idea is to […]

By Vincent -- 5 comments

October 1st, 2006

Whitehouse RSS feeds & Podcast!

The White House RSS feeds for President George W. Bush delivers headlines and links to White House news releases, including events, speeches, statements, and press briefings from administration officials. In addition to the RSS feed, audio files of the President’s Weekly Radio Address and selected remarks are available via Podcast! Wow, e-bush? (via).

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September 21st, 2006

RSS the Oprah way

Want to explain to your girlfriend/wife what RSS is, but you’re getting tired of being misunderstood? Try it the Oprah way… Stephanie Quilao has written a great post about this and explains nicely what RSS does. Conclusion: you can use it to get all the headlines of the most current stories from all your favorite […]

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September 21st, 2006

Grazr is live

Grazr, the mini OPML browser en soon-to-be publishing platform, just launched version 1.0. Last time I wrote about it it was in Beta but now they have a fresh designed website and the grazr itself has also been updated. And like Techcrunch puts it: Grazr isn’t a mini feed reader, it’s a tool for displaying […]

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