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May 22nd, 2008

APML made easy by NewsGator

Attention Profiling Mark-up Language or APML is an XML-based format used for capturing the likes and dislikes of person. It is said to be a more accurate way of sharing one’s attention profile. And NewsGator is now making it easier to share one’s APML to other applications [Source]. This makes things less cumbersome.
The purpose of […]

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October 23rd, 2006

CNET Reviews RSS Readers

CNet has reviewed some of the most populair RSS readers: Bloglines, Rojo, Google Reader, FeedDemon and Newsgator Inbox 2.6 for Outlook. Like Steve writes, the most useful part of the review is a matrix that compares each on their blogging, mobile and language capabilities. Overall winner is Newsgator’s FeedDemon, Bloglines ends second.
Tags: bloglines, feeddemon, feedreader, […]

By Vincent -- 1 comment

August 2nd, 2006

Disallow feed access for RSS and ATOM

Ever had a feed that you wanted to be private? Then you might know that this is a hard thing to do, because feeds are being spidered by more and more services (readers, search engines, reading lists, etc) so a robots.txt isn’t helping anymore. Bloglines to the rescue because they are proposing an RSS and […]

By Vincent -- 1 comment

July 6th, 2006

Publishers and RSS

Internetnews has an article on how Publishers can survive in an RSS age. Two interesting things came forward in this article.
- According to Ask.com, subscribers to its free RSS aggregator Bloglines jumped by 300 percent between June 2005 and June 2006. Wow, we’re heading in the right direction! And great news for Bloglines offcourse! […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

June 6th, 2006

Mark Fletcher leaves Bloglines

In 2003, Mark Fletcher started Bloglines, a free web-based feedreader. In February 2005, Bloglines was acquired by Ask Jeeves, and now it’s time to move on. So what’s next you Ask? Mark writes: At some point I’ll start another company; that’s a difficult habit to break. But I’m also going to focus more of my […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

June 1st, 2006

Ask.com Blog Search with BlogLines

Ask.com has finally launched its Blog Search. This new tool searches in weblogs, feeds and newsgroups. All data is based on the feeds and links from online feedreader Bloglines (property of Ask).
The blog search has some nice features worth mentioning, like the timeframe-option where you can search a specific period of time (anytime, last hour, […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

May 26th, 2006

Reddit feedreader

Just found another feedreader which may be interesting: feeds.reddit.com. Reddit is a social service for what’s new and popular on the web (as you might know). Now they are testing this new online feedreader that keeps track of what you’ve read and haven’t read. Just like on reddit, you can vote on items you like. […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

May 8th, 2006

Share Your OPML

More on OPML because Dave Winer has published his new “Share Your OPML” site. First, you upload your OPML file (the list of RSS feeds to which you subscribe). Then you can see who subscribes to the same feeds that you do. For example, here’s who subscribes to my feed. You can also browse lists […]

By Vincent -- 3 comments

April 30th, 2006

Bloglines Wishlist 2006

I’m using Bloglines for over a year now and I think it’s great! But lately I’ve seen all sorts of new refreshing stuff out there that I also would like to use. So I’ve made a short list with some features I would really like, in the hope that somebody at Bloglines will do something […]

By Vincent -- 2 comments

April 27th, 2006

What feeds does Scoble read?

The feed subscriptions from Microsoft’s famous blogger Robert Scoble can be seen on bloglines: bloglines.com/public/scobleizer (via Another Node).
Tags: bloglines, microsoft, RSSShare This

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