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2005 March

Unique-to-Me Info Updates

Since we’re talking about practical “everyday” RSS uses, here’s another breakthrough, this time from Bloglines …
Starting today, people can track the shipping progress of package deliveries from some of the world’s largest parcel shipping companies-FedEx, UPS, and the United States Postal Service-within their Bloglines MyFeeds page. Package tracking in Bloglines encompasses international shipments, in English. [...]

RSS For Job Search

Practical RSS applications are certainly growing, fulfilling the promise of RSS becoming a tool to make our lives easier. Indeed is another of those, providing their visitors with job seeking results from hundreds of sites.

RSS For Internal Communications: It’s Starting

Shel Holtz shares that the Amsterdam-based ING Groep got the early lead in using RSS for internal communications when it launched a pilot test with 200 employees early this year.

CITA RSS Aggregator 1.9

Now this is more like it! A free news aggie with keyword alerts! That is just the reason that I am so bent on using Feed Demon when I’m on my Windows desktop. To me, having CITA RSS Aggregator offering this as a free feature places it pretty high on my personal list of good [...]

FeedSpring

Cool! A program that will help you whip-up some RSS feeds for your own use without any real skill needed. Awesome interface, great options and most importantly it is really easy to use. Check out FeedSpring for yourself! If you do use this software for feed creation though, consider dropping a couple of dollars [...]

John Jantsch on Corporate Blogging and Referral Marketing

I interviewed John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing to get the “how-to” on corporate blogging and referral marketing. The interview reveals excellent pointers on how to integrate business blogging in your business strategy, the differences between the buying patterns of e-mail and RSS subscribers, and a complete referral marketing system.

Defining the Relations Between Blogs, E-zines, RSS and E-mail

The “#1 Mistake Most Blogs Do” article generated quite some interesting feedback from the blogosphere. What especially strikes me is that somewhere along the line we started comparing apples and oranges, and lost some much needed objectivity. Let’s take a closer look at the relations between blogs, e-zines, RSS and e-mail.

#1 Mistake Most Blogs Do

This might sound strange coming from me, but the #1 mistake most blogs are doing is not publishing their content via e-mail, as a supplement to RSS.

New Mobile RSS Developments

FeedBeep and PubSub just announced their partnership to deliver PubSub RSS alerts to mobile phones via RSS. And why not, since RSS to SMS in fact promises to improve our lives by giving us easy access to the time-critical information we need most, when we need it.

RSS Advertising Growing Strong: RocketNews Joins the Pack

Nasdaq reports that RocketInfo, a leading news aggregator/serach engine has just struck a deal with Kanoodle to monetize its RSS feeds with targeted RSS advertising.

BigHip Adds RSS Services For Customers

Even though this is from a week or so back, it is still good news regardless. According to Yahoo! News, BigHip is offering more than just email marketing. It seems that they have decided to offer RSS abilities as well. Right on! Another marketing company finally gets it!

Slashdot Survey Finds RSS Will Increase Dramatically

According to a new survey by Slashdot, RSS usage is about to grow dramatically.

RSS Advertising, RSS Metrics and RSS Consumption: Interview With Scott Rafer of Feedster

We interviewed Scott Rafer of Feedster to get the scoop on the future and present of RSS advertising, RSS metrics and RSS consumption habits. Scott provides unique content and insights of great use and advantage to all advertisers and RSS marketers.

RSS Adoption Not Really Simple: Marketers Show Poor Understanding of RSS

The latest JupiterResearch report claims that RSS will not have a significant effect as a supplemental alternative to e-mail marketing. While the report does serve some relevant obstacles to wide-spread marketing adoption of RSS, it mostly shows a poor understanding of RSS by marketers. Actually, as you can see from this article, many of the points made in the report are invalid …

Tracking Packages with RSS

Yakov Shafranovich has written a great article at XML.com about tracking packages with RSS.
“Now imagine if you were buying things from eBay, or doing your holiday shopping at Amazon: you might be expecting multiple or urgent packages, and I can bet that most of us will be tracking them pretty often, just like those favorite websites [...]

Feed Tagger

Bloglines is not the only way to keep up on your content when you are on the go. Another service that is worth checking out is called Feed Tagger. Now, I have not had the opportunity to try this myself yet. But judging from I have been reading about it, I’d definitely say that [...]

Blog Gets White House Press Pass

If you needed a sign that blogs are becoming more and more “legitimate” sources for news, last week mediabistro’s FishBowlDC became the first blog with a White House press pass.
It’s interesting to visit FishBowlDC and read the posts from the past week. The posts detail the effort involved in getting the press pass, the [...]

RSS Alerts via SMS

SearchEngineWatch reports that Feedbeep, a new service that sends you an SMS alert when new RSS headlines are available, just entered beta, which anyone within the U.S. and Belgium can join.

MSN Attacks the Web-based RSS Aggregator Market

MSN just started testing their own standalone web-based RSS aggregator, in addition to the already existing RSS functionality within the main MSN portal.

The Custom Reader Branded RSS Aggregator in Action

One of the recent players to enter the branded RSS aggregator market, Custom Reader, just launched the beta version of their branded desktop aggregator, and gave me a shot at doing my own branded edition. Read more to see how a branded aggregator looks in action.

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