2004 August

Six Apart has released MovableType 3.1. Some of the new features include Dynamic Pages, Subcategories, Post Scheduling, and better Extensibility.

Get the latest Genealogy News, Articles, and Blogs from one feed in spot.

Flickr is a service that allows you to store, sort, and share your images via a browser. They have a slick interface (written in Flash) that allows you to upload and manipulate your images in a variety of ways. The number of things you can do with your images is too numerous to […]

According to Sifry’s Alerts, it looks like Technorati will be partnering with CNN again to provide analysis of the political blogosphere during next week’s Republican National Convention. I hope some of the problems Technorati has been experiencing are fixed in time for next week (I bet some of that new VC money is being […]

Manalang.com has some basic XSLT sheets available to transform RSS and Atom. It looks like the sheets cover all versions of RSS / Atom, and they are basic enough to use as a starting point for more ambitious XSLT adventures.

Via The Scobleizer Weblog: Yesterday Fred Dixon, Vice President at Serence showed me their latest KlipFolio 2.6 which has a news aggregator that plugs into Hotmail (among a whole lot of other things). Wow. The UI is nice. This makes Hotmail a lot more interesting.

Here is some good advice on how to improve the usability of your RSS newsfeeds.
Common feed publishing errors are a frequent encounter and if you consider adding a RSS feed to your Web site/blog you might want to use this very list as an initial reference RSS usability guide.
Here some initial key items […]

From the announcement - “Urchin is a Web based, customisable, RSS aggregator and filter. Its primary purpose is to allow the generation of new RSS feeds by running queries against the collection of items in the Urchin database. However, other arbitrary output formats can be defined and generated using XSL transformations or HTML::Template templates. In […]

ThinFeeder, written in Java, is a cross-platform RSS / Atom aggregator. It is small in size (1.5 MB), yet offers many features, such as multiple languages, anti-aliasing, and skins.

Looks like the search team over at Yahoo has a blog now.

A new entry in the RSS Top55 adds resource n°85 to the number of best RSS search engines and blog directories available out there.
Terrar RSS Search Engine already scans over 200,000 RSS newsfeeds and is open to direct submissions of new ones.

Looks like one of the first RSS aggregators, Radio UserLand, now supports Atom.

Now this is just geeky. Turning your own Netflix queue into an RSS feed? I thought it would never happen, but would appear that someone out there was out to prove me wrong. Check this out folks, a jerry-rigged RSS feed output for John Gray’s own Netflix queue. This is insane! Imagine the amount […]

And I’m not just saying that because I helped put it together. Seriously, you’ve got a lot more options with this sucker - and we’re planning on adding more (including support for different syndication formats and JavaScript output for easier personal auction lists for your blog). (1) Complete the form to your satisfaction; (2) Press […]

After you have had some time to recover from Gnomedex, there is an open invitation to BloggerCon on November 6th.

Looks like someone has figured out how to spam Technorati in a way similar to how the MovableType comment section was exploited.

Version 1.4 of BlogMatrix Jäger is now available for Windows and Macintosh. Jäger is a “one-panel” syndication reader that uses the user’s browser to display weblog content. Version 1.4 features offline content reading (including aggregating many weblogs together on a single page), full-text searching, a simplified user interface, and a price tag of $0. The […]

Imports OPML, Checks HTTP E-tag and Modified Date for optimal download performance, and has an embedded Web browser. What’s not to like?

Joshua Brauer says “Among the worthless stories on NBC tonight was a note about the failure (again) of the system that is to provide scores and results to the print media pool at the Olympics. We’ll skip the question of where the bloggers are for the moment, but a quick look at the official website […]

Nothing to install, nothing to tweak, nothing to do with spreadsheets - but you can read your RSS feeds in Microsoft Excel! I guess we’ll soon see more accountants grokking the concept of desktop syndication. I just can’t wait for someone to develop a plugin for Notepad - now that would be the ultimate aggregator, […]