2004 May

Designerz Network Map: “We offer free access to quality web intelligence in standard XML and RSS syndication formats to meet your information syndication needs. Our web intelligence is organized in thousands of categories (currently 25,000+).”

PowerPoint presentations can now easily integrate RSS feeds and news headlines. The Take-off RSS news reader from DataPoint gathers RSS news and sends them directly into a Mircosoft Access database. From there they can be easily pulled inside one or more presentation slides. Find out more or download your free trial now.

Dave ‘rss‘ Winer has launched a new collective weblog: www.reallysimplesyndication.com [ xml ]. His opening piece exemplifies Dave’s ever enthousiastic spirit!

Creating a Generic Site-To-RSS Tool. While this is certainly not breaking news, it maybe something that you have not had the opportunity to learn more about until now. Authored by Roy Osherove this in-depth article provides you with all of the technical information, examples and references you need to taste the flavour of true site […]

The film about climate change caused some buzz [ xml ] in the news. If you want some more lasting information, just slurp the Climate Change Newsfeed [ xml ]. More peeks into the future are offered by Overmorgen [ xml ], FutureNow [ xml ], FuturePundit [ xml ], ZapFuture [ xml ] and […]

“Since my earlier post on RSS in relation to email marketing, I’ve come across many related articles…I thought I’d point to some of these…bottom line is that Email as a sales driver has had dramatic success over the years…the debate should move away from RSS v Email and move to how RSS can become part […]

“There’s a way to keep track of the New York Times, the Washington Post, Talkingpointsmemo.com, Wonkette - most major newspapers and nearly all blogs - in a lightweight, speed-readable format that lets you scan dozens, even hundreds, of fresh headlines a day without the time-wasting tedium of opening one Web site after another. All you […]

A short spring holiday to Germany enticed me to look into the web syndication of the German web. If you can read the German language you may help yourself to lots of good feeds on RSS-Verzeichnis and RSS Scout.

Direct from Mike Gunderloy: “This feed is no longer being maintained. RSS has become too mainstream for me to feel the need to track it any longer.”

Feed2JS is a newly launched hosted service to convert RSS newsfeeds into Javascript code that can be easily integrated on any Web site.
The service runs off a reliable server at Maricopa Community Colleges but a PHP-based version that can be installed on your own server is also available.
Feed2JS: Using RSS Feeds in your web pages […]

“aKregator is a KDE RSS Aggregator. This beta emphasizes on: multitabbed article viewer; feed autodiscovery; tries to keep usage patterns similar to kmail and konqueror to help learn quickly and use easily; etc.”

Chris, you’re a well-known syndication enthusiast and your voice is heard by thousands of people (including me) reading your site and blog. I think if this problem could be heard by aggregator and blog tool authors and webmasters, our Web life would be made easier.
Since RDF/RSS/Atom’s invention, we can read sites w/o having visiting them, […]

“I know you love RSS readers and wanted to give you a quick heads up about Pluck Corp., a new company that today unveiled a new Web browser companion.” Yes, and I know you used a form letter when you sent me the press release - however, I like Pluck. I also thought this bit […]

FindForward is a great and uniquely capable search engine, which while tapping in the powerful Google database brings back also highly effective thumbnails of the sites appearing in the search results, relevant books and discussion groups related to the subject, the ability to add comments and to see previous archived versions of that page.
But […]

AHN is a newsmediaportal. News can be searched with a simple search engine and a pulldown list with many categories. The killer feature is RSS. All headlines - whatever the searchresult of your choice - have the orange XML-button on top of the page. If your feedreader can import OPML you can slurp the huge […]

JanRain has just release version 1.0 of Jyte, a small and easy-to-use RSS newsreader and aggregator that works on PCs and Macs covered before in this RSS&Atom news column.
Jyte is very simple to use and it integrates an effective search facility, multi-tabbed integrated browsing, and the ability to keep, store or email to a friend […]

“I’ve got a pair of RSS-colored glasses for all the Atom haters out there. Actually, they’re not my glasses, but this one guy’s offering a service and this other guy’s offering some XSLT — both or either of these can help make all that annoying Atom gibberish look just like RSS to you and your […]

“News Reader brings the news to you. Rather than constantly visiting your favourite news sites each day, simply subscribe to their RSS / Atom news feed and let Deepnet Explorer compile and display all the latest news on one screen” Implementation is still very rough around the edges, and there’s no apparent autodiscovery mechanism in […]

“RDFMapper is a web service that searches an RDF or RSS file for resources with geographic locations, and returns a map overlayed with dots representing located resources. Clicking on a dot displays a web page representing the clicked resource (see these examples). Arbitrary images can be treated as maps, so the service can be used […]

“There was no good answer to ‘Has anyone built an RSS aggregator that can aggregate multiple calendar RSS feeds into your Outlook or Notes personal calendar?’ so I thought I’d spend a few hours changing that. I was at my car dealership waiting from my car to be fixed so I spent the time writing […]