Posts Tagged with ‘rss’

Right after we were shown the upcoming FriendFeed beta featuring friend lists and some other interesting tweaks of the interface, people started sharing what else could make our experience of FriendFeed closer to perfect in the special room for discussions the team set up for everyone to share their feedback on the redesign. I believe that the team actually hoped to hear feedback only on how the latest version works and what people actually think about this version in the [...]

Toluu, the RSS sharing and suggestion service, has found some interesting trends when exploring their subscription data.  Caleb Elston, Toluu’s founder, tells me that of the 300,000+ feeds in Toluu more than 50% only have only 1 subscriber.  And that the number 1 feed has 10x the number of subscribers as the 100th most popular feed.
Caleb says this tells him “that the mega blogs are not where it is at, they may have a [...]

Today NewsCred opens to the public another news aggregation service that is based on the idea of credibility of sources that you receive the news from. NewsCred positions itself as a digital newspaper collecting content from various mainstream and new media outlets.
Any visitor can consume news here even without registration but if you want to add some credibility to your favorite news sources you will have to create an account here. And this credibility that is based on votes from [...]

Now that Beijing is almost ready for the opening ceremony, I guess for all the sports fans (or those of us who only turn into sports fans for the Olympics) it is time to get ready and prepare our feed readers for The Games. While Wired offers a selection of places to watch the Games online, I am sure that not everyone has the time to actually watch everything so I have collected a few places where you can grab [...]

It was only yesterday that we discussed Mozilla’s idea to crowdsource definition of the future of the web, internet browser in particular, by calling for concepts of what internet users want the perfect browser of the future to be. Now it seems that Mozilla already has some plans of their own - and these plans seem to include Firefox domination in every possible field.
Mozilla has announced plans to develop Snowl, a Firefox extension that is intended to combine all your [...]

StartUpArabia alerted me to a cool tool called Feedoor, a feed management tool launched last year. Feedoor allows users to edit feeds, filter them, and create new feeds based on mash-ups of multiple feeds and filters.
Feedoor may be the ultimate in vanity tools if they can just get the filtering right. By creating a new feed, you can add any feeds you want and create one huge feed. Want everything under the Denton umbrella? Add Valleywag, Gawker, IO9, and the [...]

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 [...]

A while back a little RSS feed tool was released called Snackr. The basic idea behind Snackr is that it takes your RSS feeds and scrolls them across your desktop, so you get a constant stream of updated news and can pick whatever looks most interesting as it goes by. I tried Snackr for a while and had to abandon it in spite of how fun it was (with the number of news feeds for the amount and variety of [...]

Google is still the reigning champion of monetizing the internet. With it's firm hold on the search advertising niche and ever increasing variety of keyword based ad content types, the search giant looks like it will hold the crown for a while. Cementing that theory is today's announcement that its popular Adsense revenue program will now be offered in your RSS feeds, a service that has been touted as "on its way" on the Feedburner site for months.
I can [...]