Posts Tagged with ‘feeds’

There’s an interesting Firefox addon I wanted to introduce to everyone today, it is called Feeds in a Box and is intended to help you easier consume all the content you happen to consume online - without interrupting your web browsing experience yet staying informed of everything that matters to you. The addon will bring all your favorite content into one convenient place, no matter what the content is - be it Twitter streams of your friends or your favorite [...]

I hate your partial feed.
Yes, I've heard all the arguments for partial feeds: they prevent splogging; they ensure people visit the site and generate the precious ad revenue; they keep feed readers from stealing eyeballs.
Sploggers, however, scrape sites any which way they can. A full feed may make it a little easier, but a partial feed won't prevent it. I have one hilarious splog in my bookmarks that scrapes the content, translates it to another language, then translates it back [...]

It's the weekend, and news tends to be slower. This is usually the only chance I get during the week to sift through my feeds, catch up with everything I missed during the week, and hopefully get the number of unread feeds under 100. This week, however, I've been trying to weed out feeds I'm no longer reading to make way for all the new ones I've added, and I've deleted a few that might shock you.
A short while ago, [...]

MoFuse, short for mobile fusion is a new kid on the block when it comes to RSS feeds on your mobile phone. MoFuse founded in July 2007 released its first private beta in the late part of September 2007.
The idea behind MoFuse is to allow, as it so boldly states, “content publishers to create RSS driven mobile sites and gives our users the ability to control almost every aspect of the design using some of our AJAX features”, and [...]

Feedhub is being introduced at DEMOfall 07 beginning today. This next generation information tool allows users to personalize and improve popular feed readers. Feedhub will essentially cut through the mass confusion of overwhelming data to deliver relevant stories to readers. Feedhub is built on mSpoke's patented mPower Adaptive Personalization Engine which enables Feedhub to learn from human insights. DEMOfall's producer Chris Shipley specifically selected Feedhub for debut at DEMOfall 07, so expectations are high for this new intuitive tool.
Feedhub [...]

VeZoom is an online video search engine that has been putting in some hard work to increase its service's features and its footprint across the web. Two weeks ago, Profy featured a review of MyVeZoom, which provides users with a customizable interface to locate videos from. Now, the service is out recruit from the crowd of bloggers.
Riding on the wave of the popularity of online video, VeZoom has come up with a development that combines video with RSS [...]

There are several options to choose from with RSS feed readers. You can choose a standalone client (FeedDemon), a browser plugin (Sage), or a reader accessible through a website (Google Reader). All of these options, however, lack some of the features that newcomer Fav.or.it promises to provide. The service is not yet available, but will enter private beta testing soon.
Fav.or.it , which just launched its preview website today, is aiming to provide a feed reader that also helps you [...]

We’re in an era of immense media saturation, so much so that millions of Netizens understandably opt to filter the countless feeds available down to select lists of top choices, in order to avoid a barrage of information where one would undoubtedly exist if selectivity could not be had.
We may, however, be seeing the downside of excessive filtration, at least in terms of the number of venues offering personalization. The number of these aggregation and filtration utilities is high, and [...]

I got clued to a pretty cool gadget called iStalkr last night, so this morning I thought our readers should have the look at this new startup. The site is a feed aggregator in Beta testing that is supposed to stalk others obviously. I don't want to be too hard on the "spanking" new tool but it is pretty stark at the moment even by the developer's standards.
iStalkr is intended to be a livestream RSS and ATOM feed tracking device that creates a [...]