2005 January

As many of you know by now, the act of Podcasting is basically distributing audio content via RSS. While this may be simple to implement for some, often times it proves to be a challenge for others. One solution is to use a program called Feedforall and then simply follow their step-by-step tutorial.

You have to admit, there is a certain comfort that comes from knowing that there is more than one reliable option for online RSS newsreaders out there. One such option is called Feedmarker. Built with the user in mind, this offers a nice alternative to many of the other online readers out there already.

If you think you have what it takes to parse your own feeds, then this might just be the parser for you. Offered up by Skyzyx.com, this will allow developers to get their hands dirty a little and come up with their own parsed feeds without a lot of the hassles found with other parsing […]

The Shifted Librarian was happy to see that library catalog software company Sirsi has a new product with support for RSS.
I’m not sure if my local library uses Sirsi software, but it sure would be nice to have my on-hold list in RSS format so I can see when new books become available.

Dave Winer, of Scripting News, notes that last week’s announcement of the “nofollow” attribute will have an interesting side effect on the search engine optimization business.

For those who have a blog, comment spam has been the bane of online existence. I actually turned comments off on my blog following a rash of porn-related comment spam that had my parents asking questions.
If you are reading this and are not sure what comment spam is, think of adds for “enlargement” pills […]

This article gives us a glimpse of where RSS is today and where it will be in the future. One the areas that I also believe need to be examined is the birth of new personalized information hypermarkets and how they will affect both content providers and content recipients.

So you are looking for a news feed on a specific subject, but are unsure where to start? It’s not for a lack of trying, after all you have exhausted every RSS feed source you could think of…but have you thought to look at this resource? The name is ‘The Feed Directory‘ and has more […]

As powerful as RSS is, having it work with BitTorrent once in awhile is sort of handy as well. BitTorrent is a powerful new way to distribute files and media that still has yet to meet its full potential. While it stands firmly on its own two feet, having it combined with RSS only works […]

About a month ago, I announced here on Lockergnome the expected arrival of Rok Hrastnik’s e-book on the use of RSS in Marketing and Publishing.
Rok granted me the favor of interviewing him this week, just before the final release of his 550 page book.

Aside from the fact that this reminds me of something off of a bottle of Pine-Sol, this ActiveRefresh program sounds pretty cool! A program that strikes me as being targeted to both the RSS newbie and experinced user alike, ActiveRefresh is sure to continue making headlines with its innovative features.

Part of what made Newsgator so successful was the fact that it integrated with MS Outlook. While I personally find the app to be overly bloated, it does make it super easy to import RSS and OPML goodies into a user’s PIM with little effort. Now that PIM integration has been addressed, this brings us […]

Jeremy Zawodny has written an interesting analysis of the reference tracking capabilities of Technorati, Feedster, and Bloglines.
All three services track who is linking to your site, and you can search the database of each service to find what others are saying about you or your content. In Jeremy’s analysis, each service is scored by […]

For the better part of two days now, LiveJournal has been down. The data center that LiveJournal is hosted at suffered a major power failure, with backup power failing too.
Updates on the situation can be found here.
I wonder if any other major sites were affected by the power loss?

If you are looking to chart trends from within Feedster, then this might be a wise place to start. When I first tried it, I found it to be a bit slow, but I will admit the idea is certainly cool enough though.

According to CNET News, Microsoft is adding RSS support to its MyMSN service. In addition to RSS, MyMSN users will be able to get content from the MSN Spaces service.
Yahoo beat Microsoft to the punch on this one, with RSS support being added to the My Yahoo service a few months ago. However, as […]

It’s all about keeping it simple, no really! Today I wanted to show you this neat way to create your own RSS feeds on your own server, but without the stress of trying to understand some of the more complicated sides of feed generation. Check it out!

A few people have discovered that the MSN Search service now supports results via RSS. According to the official MSN Search Weblog, “This is an experimental alpha feature that is still under development. Since this is an experiment, be aware that we will be changing it and making it better. We are planning to […]

Burning Door has released a report on the top 20 RSS readers using its FeedBurner system. Despite the ability to track what reader or aggregator is requesting a feed, there are quite a few issues that skew the results. For instance, many aggregators, such as Bloglines, Yahoo, and NewsGator Online, consume a […]

Burning Door, the company that makes feed utility FeedBurner, recently released a new beta version of its Blackberry Mobile Feed Reader software.
According to the announcement, the newest beta “improves the user interface and solves many of the network issues associated with certain operators that users faced.”