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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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September 14th, 2006

Your own digital newsletter via RSS

Some great stuff via Steve Rubel: SimplyHeadlines.com. This could be something for the masses! The site will take your favorite feeds and turn them into a newspaper format that’s emailed to you daily. You can choose from a pretty HTML version or a Blackberry-friendly text version. Sounds good…

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August 27th, 2006

iTunes Music Store RSS Generator

Apple (iTunes) has a great online tool for finding new releases, todays top songs, todays top albums, featured songs, etc. The tools is called the iTunes Music Store RSS Generator and also has an option for the genre and the language/location of the iTunes store (US, Canada, Netherlands, etc). Very useful for all music lovers!

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August 21st, 2006

FeedCrier: more RSS and IM

Adam Kalsey, a founder and former CTO of RSS vendor Pheedo, has released a new service called FeedCrier. This service makes it easy to receive IM-notifications of new items in an RSS feed, just like the Rasasa-service where I wrote about before.
FeedCrier currently supports only AIM but that will change soon. Free accounts are limited, […]

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August 20th, 2006

xFruits RSS services

xFruits is sweet! It’s a suite of RSS services that’s all about feeds. You can use xFruits as an aggregator, to create a PDF from your feed, add a mobile feed or even post to RSS via e-mail. All these services areen’t really new but why use different sites and logins if it can be […]

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August 15th, 2006

Nabaztag: WiFi rabbit with RSS

Meet Nabaztag, an energizer rabbit. Since its market debut last year, 50,000 Nabaztags have been sold in France, Britain, Belgium and Switzerland, and its creator hopes to sell 150,000 by the end of this year. The rabbit uses WiFi and can read things like RSS feeds, e-mails and weather reports out loud (via rss-specifications.com).
ThinkGeek has […]

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August 9th, 2006

Daily Horoscope RSS via Yahoo Astrology

Ernest Oporto was looking for the Yahoo! Astrology RSS feed, offcourse they didn’t have any so he decided to create the feed himself. He now has a service which screen scrapes the Yahoo horoscope page, copy the link that belongs to your sign: capricorn, aquarius, pisces, aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, virgo, libra, scorpio, sagittarius.
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August 5th, 2006

DiggFiltr: Custom Digg RSS

Digg rules, that much we know. And there’s already some sort of spinoff: DiggFiltr. With DiggFiltr you can select Digg categories and subcategories for which the service will generate a custom RSS feed. Sounds good but I really miss the ability to add custom keywords and filters…

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July 30th, 2006

Local news via MappedUp

Local news is hot, and one very interesting Dutch start-up in that field is MappedUp. On this site they track a large number of RSS news sources and display the latest items on a world map, geographically and in real-time! Last week they went into public Beta and you can now register to further personalize […]

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July 26th, 2006

Subscribing to YouTube video tags

Lifehacker has published an easy way to subscribe to YouTube video tags. So if you want to keep up to date with all video’s of Audi, you can use the URL “http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/audi.rss”. Or use “http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/elvis+presley.rss” for al movies about “Elvis Presley”. Sweet!

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