Chris Pirillo

Seems to be a mighty storm brewin’ - a bit more powerful than a Nor’easter, too. Been a long time comin’. It’s RSS, it’s feeds, it’s XML - it’s all of the above. As an ex-English major, I’m torn. Does “Atom” really mean RSS? Does RDF really equal RSS 1.0? How many licks does it [...]

Q: What is FeedDemon?
Nick: FeedDemon is the premier desktop RSS
reader for Windows. FeedDemon’s comprehensive feature set has made it a hit
with power users, while those new to RSS have praised its intuitive
interface for making it easy to get started.
Q: How does FeedDemon fit into NewsGator’s plans?
Greg: At the core of NewsGator’s system is
the NewsGator [...]

Spice up RSS links with FeedForAll’s customizable RSS buttons. Bright and colorful graphics have long been used to raise the visibility of an RSS feed on a website. NotePage has made a free online RSS graphic tool available that allows users to quickly customize buttons by selecting the text on the button, and the color [...]

So, I’m sitting here, watching The Librarian: Quest for the Spear on TNT. The main character, Flynn, played by Noah Wyle, is interviewing for a job as “The Librarian.” When asked about what he knows, the guy rambles off a series of seemingly-random information manipulation skills - inclduing knowledge of the Dewey Decimal system, how [...]

Easily create, edit and publish rss feeds. New RSS feeds can be quickly and easily created with FeedForAll. Advanced features enable you to create professional looking rss feeds quickly. Existing RSS feeds can be repaired and enhanced with FeedForAll. RSS feeds generated by other means can be automatically repaired, so that they conform to the [...]

Something I’ve been pushing to get for some time has been RSS feeds for WMPlugins.com - the source for add-ons for Windows Media Player 10. I’m happy to give a little early announcement :). Now if you’re running a Player/Digital Media enthusiast site, you can easily add a small HTML file that displays the [...]

For the past few days, our Amazon RSS feeds were acting wonky. After reviewing the extensive Web Services literature, I decided to hand it off to someone far more capable: Tom Pohl. He’s saved my digital bacon more than once, and so I’ll be giving him half of this quarter’s revenues derived from those Amazon [...]

A few minutes ago, I received this message from the kind folks from the D2Soft Technologies Team. Instead of sending me a personalized note, however, they made the mistake of employing a spammish marketing tactic. Sorry, but I just can’t recommend ‘em now.
“We have seen that you offer a RSS feed on your site ‘Lockergnome’s [...]

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 [...]

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?

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, [...]

I’ve tweaked our Amazon Feed Generator to automatically give you the option to search Google for the product, as well as do an immediate price comparison so you really know if you’re getting a good deal or not.

“This has been a nightmare thought for me for a while now. I don’t know what new might come up tomorrow, but I am worried about viruses / worms that might enter our systems through RSS feeds or news aggregators. Technical guys and security experts, is this possible? I am sure anything is possible but [...]

“Well, attentive readers of this blog will doubtless recall that I fumbled around a bit with a friend trying to find a way to do Gmail notifications without using another application like GTray. I was particularly taken up with the idea of using RSS as a way to do new mail notifications. Well, a bit [...]

“This Feed2JS web site provides you a free service that can do all the hard work for you. We developed this as an experiment, largely for our own use. RSS was just starting to get popular in 2003, and it seemed like people could use an easier method for incorporating RSS into their own web [...]

“Jeremy Wright asked me to tell him how to put full posts in his RSS templates, so, here are all of my RSS feeds and their templates: RSS 1.0 Full Feed, with complete HTML markup and comments; RSS 1.0 Full Feed, with complete HTML markup but without comments; RSS 1.0 Full Feed, without HTML markup [...]

One of my favorite tech comics has an RSS Feed! If you only subscribe to one URL today, let this one be it.

“Feedster is a rapidly growing news search engine that provides easy access to relevant and up-to-date information. Mainstream information providers, as well as hundreds of thousands of weblogs, are syndicating their information using a newly popular XML syndication standard called RSS (Really Simple Syndication). By combining professional journalism and individual commentary, Feedster is the first [...]

Absolutely genius: “Livemarks allow you to bookmark an RSS feed and these appear as bookmark folders, with individual items in the feed appearing as bookmarks. Just click on the “bookmark” and you will be taken to the page the item in the RSS feed is pointing to.”