2004 January

How can you pass up on software with a cute name like Rippy the Aggregator v0.9? [ Via Backup Brain ]

Baltimore Sun offers feeds.

ArcSite, the German RISC OS news and forum website, has from this week provided an RSS feed, suitable for use with your favourite RSS client. RSS is a “format for syndicating news and the content” and can be used to let people know when a website is updated or changed. [ Via iBLOGthere4iM ]

Those little orange XML icons are everywhere. How much will people think you suck if your site doesn’t have one? Syndicate your content today or be the target of jokes at your next party and building an RSS feed made simple explains how.

The CS Department likes to set up newsgroups for each class to allow professor/TA/student conversations (though this custom is being supplanted by Whiteboard’s discussion boards). I’m not a big Usenet person, and checking said newsgroups would involve me having to remember to go out of my way and fire up Pine. However, since (timely) announcements […]

Depending on which version you’re looking at, RSS can stand for Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summaries, or Really Simple Syndication. It’s an XML language that—used in combination with specialized software packages called RSS aggregators or news aggregators—allows a user to subscribe to a web site or section of a web site and receive quick […]

Buzznet, a community photoblog offering personal and multi-user galleries, has RSS feeds.

Atom provides the potential to share your blog with a wider audience. When you activate Atom syndication, Blogger automatically generates a machine-readable version of your blog that can be picked up and displayed in a variety of ways, including newsreaders, web sites and handheld devices. There are already a bunch of newsreaders that support Atom. […]

iUpload has a free web service called MailbyRSS for authoring RSS channels by e-mail. The service supports both text and rich content e-mail. The application allows the company to send content out by email, which is then converted to RSS, which the subscriber can then add as a feed to her RSS feed reader. […]

The Office Letter has an RSS feed. The site provides tips, tricks, tools, and techniques for Microsoft Office.

Previously, we reported how to add FeedDemon to Internet Explorer, now you can do it for Opera.

GameSpot offers several RSS feeds with headlines and descriptions and links back to GameSpot for the full story. This page listing feeds may be found at http://www.gamespot.com/misc/rss/ at any time.

GarageGames is now serving 1.0 RSS news feeds for the Play Games, Make Games and Torque news areas. Use these links or click on the orange XML icons at the top of each news section to view the feed.

I got tired of trying to figure out what sites I should be reading every day to keep up on vulnerabilities and the latest word in information security. So I started a InfoSecNews new aggregator using my toolkit which keeps up on the news for me. It works by fetching the news sources every few […]

Desktop Sidebar new version includes support for RSS Auto-discovery and automatic HTML to RSS conversion in Newsroom panel.

OK, this is too cool not to mention. How about an RSS Feed for any actor or actress in the Internet Movie Database? Just throw in the name and an RSS Feed is created. My wife loves Fred Savage, so this is in her honor. And one for Tom Cruise. And of course, one for […]

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Lockergnome’s public OPML file can be found here.

I have been RSS feed reader free for almost two months now (see my Dr. Bloglove, or how I learned to stop using RSS and love the web), and have been reflecting on what I am missing since kicking the habit. I thought it would be useful to make a list of what RSS reading […]

howdev.com offers free class libraries for .NET applications to enable creating, modifying, and reading ATOM and RSS feeds. All programmers need to do is download the libraries, and add them as references to their projects. Once done, they can use the libraries to create new feeds, open feeds from disk and from the Web, and […]