Posts Tagged with ‘rss’

Every so often, friends send me links to Web 2.0 sites. Sometimes it's because they think I'll find them interesting, and sometimes it's because they just can't wait to hear me rant on how useless something is. I'm not sure what the intended reaction was supposed to be for Talkr, but while it's not something I'd use myself, I can see how it could be useful.
Talkr is a service that allows you to podcast your blog… without a microphone. Instead, [...]

Rather long time ago we used to visit numerous websites only to get some information. Later we had forums for discussions and special guest book sections to leave feedback to a particular site's owner. Now it is absolutely normal that we rarely visit website just to read something useful. To be more precise, when we find something actually useful we tend to contribute: post our comments, submit to Digg, Netscape or StumbleUpon, bookmark in Del.icio.us for further reading and share [...]

No, this isn’t the biggest news this week in the world of Web 2.0. Yes, there are considerably more momentous items to talk about. With that said, I want to just shelve all the “more important” stuff for a short while, because this bit is just the right mix of geek and cool that it warrants high prioritization on my list of things to mention.
So, what am I speaking of? Google’s debut of Reader for the Nintendo Wii, of course.
Now, [...]

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 [...]

When I was taking Peepel for a drive, CEO Stephen Kelly was kind enough to give me an invite to the private beta of Particls (called Touchstone) at the time, an application that was promising to revolutionize the way you read news feeds. I'll be honest; I was a bit skeptical. I've downloaded and subsequently removed more apps in the past year than my hard drive likes to think about. I've been using Particls now for a little over a [...]

RSS feeds are nothing to get excited about. Sure, they’re really simple, and the syndication is a great thing for both the publisher and the reader, but RSS is only the way by which the information – the text, the audio, and the video - gets to you, not what gets to you. There’s a piece to the RSS puzzle that does deserve special notice, however: The reader.
The majority of RSS consumers don’t think much about their reader. Most stick [...]

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 [...]

I don't know why we rather rarely speak of various RSS feed readers. Are we all totally satisfied with our reading experience? Well, I use Snarfer for my daily reading of news and other blogs and I can't think of a reason to move to another reader now. But there is one situation we should keep in mind: when you want to know that a blog is updated the second it gets the update. If I were involved in Digg [...]

If I write an article about "my" RSS aggregator, then in fairness I should write about a new one. Oddly enough a new one was just released called Fresh Reader, a productivity booster from sidefeed.  
Fresh Reader is a Web based, server type RSS feed reader that runs exceptionally fast. Fresh Reader is designed for either personal or corporate use, and allows for social bookmarking, mobile support, Intranet use and many other features.
The server based downloaded version allows the users [...]