2005 October

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly basket of hand-picked goodies discovered and found in the last seven days; it includes new Web sites, software tools, and online resources that can further enable your ability to become effective independent publishers online.
You are welcome to test, download and freely use any of the little gems listed here below. […]

The new, long-awaited version of the RSSTop55 Premium is finally available. The RSSTop55 is a free public resource that lists the most interesting RSS search engines and blog directories available online. The list is targeted both at those who use this list to identify alternative RSS directory sources as well as and mostly for those […]

JupiterResearch just released a new report study on RSS marketing, covering advanced RSS marketing tactics and even coining a new term: IRSS — Individualized RSS.

If marketers are to accept RSS as a reliable and relevant outgoing communications and marketing channel, they need an out-of-the-box enterprise grade RSS marketing solution that offers them everything they are already getting from e-mail marketing. Today, they just got that.

From a not-so-good RSS parsing service to requesting existing subscribers to resubscribe to your RSS feeds, we take a look at the RSS “not so news” from October 15-23. Not much going on I guess …

Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good’s weekly basket of hand-picked goodies discovered and found in the last seven days; it includes new Web sites, software tools, and online resources that can further enable your ability to become effective independent publishers online.
You are welcome to test, download, and freely use any of the little gems listed here […]

Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good’s weekly basket of hand-picked goodies discovered and found in the last seven days; it includes new Web sites, software tools, and online resources that can further enable your ability to become effective independent publishers online.
You are welcome to test, download, and freely use any of the little gems listed here […]

Google has finally launched its own Web-based RSS Reader during last week Web 2.0 conference.
The new RSS tool from Google sports a good set of basic features while providing, in my humble opinion, a great interface and user experience.
The interface is all based on the new Web 2.0 paradigm and by using Ajax technology […]

Here is a great set of new tools and online resources found this past week. Some of these are breaking new tools and services, others are unknown little gems I have just discovered.
Feel free to download, test and try-out any of them. They are all free and readily available for immediate access. Here is what […]

We were waiting for something like this to happen for a long time. Yahoo!, one of the key providers of mass-market RSS aggregators, finally took a step forward and published their RSS whitepaper, covering their own findings with RSS, based on their usage data. In this article, we analyze the whitepaper step-by-step, explaining what their findings mean for marketers.

Google’s new web-based stand-alone RSS Reader is, unfortunatelly, a dissapointment, still being quite buggy and offering only a nice user interface, but no advanced features.

“One of the tactics we’ve been able to employ to get targeted subscribers efficiently is co-registration …”

Some time ago we asked top marketers to give us their best tips, advice and insight on RSS marketing. Here’s the first part of the best of the best …

There’s a new tool on the block to help you submit your RSS feed to some of the top RSS search engines and directories for free via a simple online interface.

In an announcement of their Consumer Forum 2005 event, Forrester Research reports that RSS is now being used by 6% of consumers, compared with 2% in 2004.

Though little discussed and attracting yet too little attention for its critical importance is the issue of how we can consume and digest news when we have so many news sources and content to tap into.
One way to go at that is to start aggregating and filtering out what is not relevant to you, by […]

Here again today, like every Sunday, my selection of new media picks selected from all those greart new resources and tools that I have seen pass in front of my eyes but for which I have not had enough resources and time to create a specific review or news post.
Sometimes there are great tools that […]