Services

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 [...]

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.

Scott Gatz from Yahoo! writes:
Chris,
It’s been a while since we’ve chatted. I still get people telling me that they saw me speak at Gnomedex; pretty cool that so many people were there.
Anyway, I wanted to share some news with you.

HitRSS.com is yet another RSS publishing solution provider, taking the well-known hosted solution path. As many others, HitRSS.com does offer an entry-level service for free.

The folks at Nooked are about making corporate communications more efficient through the use of RSS. In order for this to be effective however, they decided that they need to offer up a RSS directory that would allow their users to find the feeds that they were looking for. Cool, but be aware that the [...]

RSS is becoming all about choices. End-users can choose from dozens and dozens of different RSS aggregators, and it’s becoming very much like this in the RSS publishing solutions market. It would seem that “almost every” company is starting to see opportunities in the RSS space, and it remains to be seen how many are actually going to achieve more than marginal market penetration. This week, the free RapidFeeds (Beta version) hosted web-based RSS publishing solution joins the market.

In this audio interview, Stuart Watson reveals not only what publishers, advertisers and direct marketers can do with RSS metrics, but also shares some excellent RSS marketing strategies and his views (and tips) on the future of RSS advertising and tracking.

WebProNews seems to have the exclusive news of CNET preparing to launch their own web-based RSS aggregator, NewsBurst, which will be competing with Bloglines and other similar web services.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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, 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.”

As this Podcasting thing continues to move forward, many of us have decided that we would look forward to solutions that will enable us to enjoy them, but at our leisure. Well one solution to taking a Web page that has Podcasts or other audio content is mFeeds. This service will take your requested page [...]

David Sifry has posted a follow-up to some questions about the new Technorati Watchlist service.
One interesting item I had not known of before is that Technorati indexes the full content of a post, not just what appears in the RSS.

Lately it seems like these RSS generation services have been falling out of the sky by the dozen! The latest in what seems to be a growing trend is called IceRocket RSS builder. The creators of this tool describe it as an easy to use service that allows any content based Website to offer an [...]

Interested in creating an RSS feed for your content, but do not want to have to fool with the programing side of that whole thing? Perhaps using FeedFire.com would help to address your RSS feed needs, check them out.

David Sifry has just announced the new Technorati Watchlist Service. I gave it a quick spin and found it to be very nice. A few months ago, I had created a few watchlists that were supposed to deliver results via email. Nothing ever showed up in my inbox. Thankfully, the new [...]