2004 June

The new version of the default Mac browser, Safari RSS, that will be included in the newly announced Tiger operating system, will provide the ability to read RSS feeds — both RSS and Atom protocols — without leaving your browser. Safari will also integrate RSS-autodiscovery (Safari will automatically recognize if a website offers an RSS […]

“This site is meant for online conversions of RSS feeds into WML for access on WAP devices (RSS2WML, RSS WAP or RSS-to-WAP). It’s free and you can make a link on your web site. Do you have WAP enabled mobile phone? Why not use it to read news or weblogs online? There are not many […]

Great news for Mac owners and for news and content publishers leveraging RSS for distribution. At the annual World Wide Developers Conference taking place now Apple announced its new version Mac OSX which includes 150 new features, as well as enhancements to information distribution, audio, video and search. According to InternetNews.com, the new Mac OSX […]

“If you are syndicating to websites that are not under your control, you don’t know that the webmaster will have the expertise to implement a syndication strategy using XML. You might be syndicating to a small company that used FrontPage to make the website; they certainly can’t set up a dynamic process to fetch an […]

Via Broadband Reports: “Torrentocracy (pronounced like the word democracy) is the combination of RSS, bit torrent, your television and your remote control. In effect, it is what gives any properly motivated person or entity the ability to have their own TV station. By running torrentocracy on a computer connected to your television, you not only […]

“Here’s an RSS feed for Frys Electronics Ads scraped from The Mercury News. It only includes the images and magnified images of the ads- there is no metadata that can be programatically extracted except the date.”

“The race is on to extend the remit of what a newsreader should do, and how it should behave. NetNewsWire added non-newsreading functions such as a weblog editor and outliner/notepad, features first seen in earlier UserLand products. Now all the news apps are fighting for market share and there’s more emphasis than ever before on […]

“Read news from different sources: RSS, RDF, Atom (NEW!), Usenet Newsgroups, Web; Compose your messages with full-featured WYSIWYG HTML editor and post them to your weblog on any Blogger, Metaweblog, MovableType or LiveJournal API - supporting website; Browse actual news articles in the web using built-in browser; Keep informed about the most recent news in […]

BlogMatrix Jäger is now in it’s 1.2 release. Jäger is a “one-panel” RSS / blog reader that is designed to be “browser-centric”. The 1.2 release adds significant functionality about the 1.0 release, including RSS 2 enclosure support (which works very well with BitTorrents), “Watch Lists” to automatically mark interesting posts, “Filters” to automatically remove uninteresting […]

“The Topix.net team has created artificial intelligence algorithms that continuously monitor breaking news from over 6,000 sources, 24 hours a day. These algorithms read every story as it is released and then categorize each one into one or more of the more the 150,000 ‘topix.net’ pages that we created. Currently, the Topix.net web page inventory […]

“TechNet is now providing an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed for its Security Bulletins, with more RSS content for IT pros on the way in the months ahead. RSS feeds deliver new content to you on the topics you are interested in. All you need to take advantage of these feeds is a RSS client, […]

YANF: “This function allows you to create a news feed within the TranspoMan structure. Have you ever seen a page full of layout code when you click on an RSS or XML link? Just copy & paste the link from the browsers address bar, to News Feed Link. Give the link a name under News […]

Dwight Porter writes:
I’ve read your praises for RSS, but have been–until now–unwilling to take the plunge. You, as the self-appointed poster-boy for the RSS Crusade, had failed to convince me to partake of RSS goodness for one reason only: Because it required me to download and install another piece of software…which one to […]

Via Ulrich Schwanitz: “The RSS format is not at all immune against security attacks. This is not new and has been discussed before.If you would like to know whether your favorite feed reader has implemented the necessary precautions against common attacks, simply subscribe to the free RSS Security Check. It currently checks and reports the […]

The European elections were a disaster for most ruling political parties. Interested in the news from and about Europe?
Take your pick from these feeds. If your feedreader imports a list in OPML: just synchronize with this file.

A voice-powered RSS newsreader is now available for immediate try-out from NextUp.com. This is version 1.0 of its NewsAloud software that is designed to automatically retrieve news stories from any RSS source you may select. NewsAloud uses Voice Synthesis (Text To Speech or TTS) to read these news stories aloud on a PC (while converting […]

What’s new in FirstStop WebSearch v4.1: Intro Screen (Standard Edition and Visual Edition); Merge result lists from the Query History (Deluxe Edition and Visual Edition);
Improved format of results exported to Microsoft Word (Deluxe Edition and Visual Edition); New ‘RSS Feeds & Blogs‘ search category (Deluxe Edition and Visual Edition).

The idea is just out and I am keen in listening to your arguments in favor or against this possible way of happily marrying RSS feeds and ads.
To me this would be the very ideal way of discovering products I may need and an effective way to extend my reporter abilities to support products and […]

RSS Weekly will look at the market for news readers when we get together tomorrow, Thursday June 10 from 10AM - Noon (PST). We’ll be joined by Greg Reinacker, founder of NewsGator Technologies along with Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines and Harry Hayes, founder of the Smart Stream Alliance. Joining us to ask a […]

Stephen Downes summarizes the inroads and evolution made by RSS technology and focuses in particular on the blossoming marriage between RSS and it many formats and new learning applications.
“To be sure, RSS will evolve rapidly over the next few years. It’s poised to be exposed to a great deal of rhetoric, and is […]