Services

Links to some services that allow webmasters to easily display RSS feeds on their sites, plus a new free RSS parsing service.

Box.net, an online file storage and sharing provider, just expanded their file sharing capabilities with RSS, making it possible for their users to automatically share documents, audio files, home movies and so on with their friends, family and coworkers, via RSS.

At first pass, we might call this service the meat and potatoes of networking for the 21st century. Granted, using RSS to keep track of your contacts might be a little new and intimidating for some folks, but I believe that after they get used to the idea it will become second nature.

New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty resources, tools and services that I have run into, have discovered accidentally or read about from other articles, feeds and newsletters I subscribe to.
Connect, explore, discover and amaze yourself with some of these great new tools and services. Here is my latest [...]

Connect, explore, discover and amaze yourself with some of these great new tools and services. Here is my latest pick of new media resources to give a good look to.
All these little gems have crossed my path in the last seven days but I have had no space or time to dedicate a full [...]

if you are looking for an online service capable of transforming your existing web site content into an RSS feed, there is now something else beyond the great Feedfire offering.
A new, UK-based service, is capable of scraping just about any site you feed to it, while not expcting or requiring any specific kind of template [...]

A handy on-line feedreader from the popular Dutch Startpagina webdirectory: Paginanieuws.

Due to the enormous and ever-increasing information flow we are all submitted to, the only way to improve our ability to access and use the information that is really important to us, must take place by scaling up one notch our ability to filter, aggregate and access relevant content.
This role is being played out in [...]

Sally Falkow and I discuss the merits of their new RSS publishing solution (PressFeed), in-depth RSS and blog marketing case studies, internet content strategies and using RSS for SEO.

With all the recent talking about RSS monetization, selling access to RSS feeds via a paid-subscription model is certainly one way of doing it. The RSS Bazaar, dubbing itself as an RSS superstore, provides a mechanism for you to immediately start selling subscriptions …

While I know for a fact some people are going to come unglued with the following news, I personally think it is great to hear that FeedBurner users can easily serve-up Google ads within their RSS content.

Web-based RSS news access that you can share? Yup, that is what the folks at Rojo are offer those who are ready to take RSS to another level of participation.

It’s an on-line RSS Dashboard, in English, German and Dutch: 24 eyes. The good news: it can import from OPML-lists and you can add tags to the newsitems, making RSS into social software! The bad news: it only work in MS Internet Explorer.

Ping-O-Matic has been online exactly one year, and their stats from the last 365 days will make your jaw drop. According to the Ping-O-Matic website, they have pinged nearly 100,000,000 times and are sending pings at about the rate of 1,000,000 a day. In fact, the two founders of the service Dougal Campbell and [...]

Evan Williams notes that Gmail has added feed reading to its growing list of features.
Since I haven’t seen anyone posting about this, I suppose I will. I’m guessing not many people have it yet, but there’s a new feature in Gmail called Web Clips, which displays little headlines above your inbox or message and is [...]

Unlike most directories out there, Feed24 is based around the feeds themselves and really could careless if there was any actual Website attached to the content be and feed being presented. Check it out!

I just got word of the ClickBank Product Feeds service, which takes the ClickBank.com product database and turns it in to an RSS feed. The cool catch is that the service adds your ClickBank affiliate name in to the product links so that every time someone clicks-through and buys you receive the sales commission.

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.

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!