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At the Blogger’s BOF (”birds of a feather” or self-organized side-meeting) at Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC), there was some discussion of XML, RSS, and Atom. Benjaminm reports, in his notes from the BOF that there is frustration with perceived drawbacks of the RSS 2.0 / XMLRPC approach to blogging and sydnication but also impatience […]
Andy Baio: add arbitrary RSS feeds to your site via Javascript includes [Waxy.org Links]
MajorGeeks.com has been offering great links to freeware and shareware for sometime now. They continue to pride themselves on offering the highest quality software that has been tried and tested before it is even considered for inclusion on their website.
Now you can keep up with their latest goodies via the MajorGeeks.com RSS feed. Personally, I […]
“Kunekt Cards make your contact information available as an RSS or RDF (News) feed. Place a button on your web site so your friends and associates can subscribe to your contact information. Never again send out notifications by email, post or fax! Just make a change to your Kunekt Card and everyone who subscribes […]
Via the Comic Strip RSS god: “Annie Taylor Lebel wrote to let me know that Full Tilt Features have freely available RSS feeds for all their comics (hers included). Fantastic news, I think you’ll agree!”
Via Ralph Wilson: “I’ve recently added an RSS feed that lets people know about new articles published in my three newsletters: Web Marketing Today, Web Commerce Today, and Doctor Ebiz. You can subscribe to the news feed here.”
Via our Feedback form: “First off, let me say thanks for your comments on the RollingStone.com RSS feed. We feel that we were causing a parsing error in certain newsreaders the way we had the feeds set up and therefore have changed the feeds. RollingStone.com RSS was set up in order to give users the […]
Here’s a genius page that has all sorts of RSS tools for you: a generator, publisher, discovery, panel, directory, and aggregator. It’s definitely one of those must-bookmarks! And along those lines, they’ve also got a couple of Bookmarklets on another page: one to see the Profile of a blog, another to get the blog’s citations […]
“The Bloglines Notifier is a very small (100kb) Windows program that tells you when you have new items in your Bloglines account. The program queries the Bloglines servers every 30 seconds. It places a small icon in your system tray which changes to indicate when you have new items.”
Via Somebody Dial 911: “Through the process of creeping featurism what started off with me manually downloading a text file containing the current day’s worth of expired domains and then grep’ing them against the built in dictionary on FreeBSD to find those expired domains containing a single, dictionary term has been automated and can now […]
Via Brian Peddle: “Discussions about RSS (really simple syndication) have been popping up all over the place. One of the majors pushes for RSS is a replacement for traditional email newsletters. Some have commented that advertisers won’t want to run ads in RSS newsletters because they cannot track readership. This isn’t necessarily the case.”
Relatively Simple Syndication 0.2 for OS X: “Very basic so far. Manage a collection of feeds, each with its own collection of RSS items. Export individual feeds to XML for publishing on the web. Great for blogs or any number of other things. We built this app to help manage our own RSS feeds, including […]
SourceGear Vault 1.2 can generate RSS feeds: “We consider these RSS feeds to be an unofficial feature. Until this blog posting, we haven’t really told anybody about it. One reason for the secrecy is because this feature is currently somewhat user-hostile. If you want to see RSS feeds from your Vault server, […]
“If you already publish an RSS feed, CaRP can create a JavaScript version of it. Then any website will be able to easily import your feed by adding a script tag like this to their page…”
Via the MSDN Academic Alliance: “I got to thinking: ‘All the data on the site that’s important to me seems to be arranged in an orderly and predictable manner. I should be able to parse it in a fairly easy manner and make it into an RSS feed.’ So I started trying. It worked out […]
Via the Message Boards: “Since Blogger Pro no longer exists, and since standard Blogger does not include RSS feed creation, and since anyone signing up for a new account with Blogger gets an ‘in-between’ version somewhere between Pro and regular Blogger, let’s look at RSS feeds and how to create them for any blog.”
Via MediaPost: “The permission model here is different from anything we’ve seen before. For one, the consumer has a lot more control in this situation when compared to that of e-mail newsletter subscriptions. Spammers have no power here - if the consumer doesn’t like what they see, they can unsubscribe from any feed. No opting […]
“WINKsite now offers a handy RSS-to-mobile aggregation service. It lets you receive and read RSS feeds on your phone or PDA. Navigating a WINKsite from your phone or PDA is simple, it’s channel-based micro-designed interface and auto-generated menu’s bringing clarity to the mobile experience. No programming knowledge or software installation is necessary.”
“fyuze is a personal information aggregator that automatically collects information from the internet so that you don’t have to. Sign up for an account, tell fyuze what sites you read, and you’ll be able to - at a glance - see what news is new, each time you log on.”
Via Dylan Greene: “Today I can’t keep track of who writes the comments. Did I see that person before? I wish I could tell. I’d like to see who is showing up in the comments I read across many different blogs. Who do I always agree or disagree with? Can I track their comments even […]