Lockergnome's RSS &
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The RSS NewsMasters Are Here (Business
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Link to Friends | Posted by Robin Good
The newsmaster is an individual capable of personally crafting
RSS-based specialized information channels by utilizing technologies
that allow hir to select, aggregate, filter, exclude and identify
quality news, information, content, tools and resources from the whole
universe of content, news and information available on the Internet.
Newsmastering is the ability of a human being to concert, orchestrate,
edit, and refine quality search formulas that tap into the whole
Internet content universe and beyond, and that... [Continued]
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RSS For Business And Marketing (Opinion)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Robin Good
1) In your experience, what are the best marketing and business
uses for RSS? Could you perhaps give us some practical examples? 2)
What are the greatest benefits of using RSS as a content delivery
vehicle? 3) The number one problem RSS publishers are facing is the
lack of knowledge about RSS. 4) What in your mind are the best ways to
present RSS to your existing subscribers and get them to start using
it,... [Continued]
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RSS In The Browser: Mozilla Does It Two
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Link to Friends | Posted by Robin Good
After Opera, Mozilla is the second major browser-maker to offer an
integrated RSS newsreader/aggregator both in its Firefox browser and
inside its e-mail client Thunderbird.... [Continued]
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Feed the weather (Feeds)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Oskar van Rijswijk
I take the weather to my feedreader with RSSweather. It can now
also be done with WeatherClicks.... [Continued]
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Blender: RSS Aggregator Cum Amazon Mixer
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Link to Friends | Posted by Robin Good
Innovative, cutting-edge prototype of what RSS may have in store
for the independent publishers and would-be newsmasters among you....
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Finally - Netflix RSS Feeds! (Services)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Phil
Looks like Netflix is finally joining the RSS movement. Netflix
recently announced RSS support for their service. The feeds you would
expect are there, including Top 100, New Releases, and Top 25 by
Genre. In addition, you can also create a feed of your account
subscriptions. For example, here is Dave Winer's Netflix feed.... [Continued]
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Omea Reader (Software)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Phil
Omea Reader is a tool which combines an RSS/ATOM feed reader, a
newsgroup reader and a Web bookmark manager in a single easy to use
interface. Omea Reader includes the full range of information
management features of Omea Pro, including fast searching, views and
categories, flags, annotations and much more. Omea Reader can be
extended with new features or even new resource types through its
powerful plugin development Open API.... [Continued]
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egoClip (Software)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Phil
egoClip is an RSS / Atom aggregator that can prioritize your feeds
based on usage. It does this locally (no data is sent over the
Internet) and without any manual ranking. egoClip uses the standard
three pane interface for reading and working with feeds. Here is a
list of the features in the program: -Supports RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0, RSS
2.0, CDF, and Atom feeds. -Search all your news. -Can periodically
fetch new news in... [Continued]
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MSDN No Longer Providing Full-Text Feeds
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Link to Friends | Posted by Phil
Recently, the MSDN blog section stopped providing full text in its
feeds. On one hand, I am disappointed. I have found the MSDN feeds to
be a great resource. Now it will be a hassle to read each article I
find interesting in the browser. On the other hand, I can understand
the issues. Scoble give a good explanation of why MSDN turned off the
full text. Bandwidth usage was growing faster than MSDN's ability...
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Making Feedster Faster (Services)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Phil
It looks like Feedster spent Labor Day weekend beefing up. There
are some pretty technical details at Scott's site, including 64 bit
servers, EXT3 vs JFS file systems, but the bottom line is: We now have
a significantly bigger, faster, badder, meaner, (insert descriptive
thing here) core database server. This means that Feedster should now
be substantially faster on indexing, data collection and crawling and
new posts you make should appear in Feedster faster. From... [Continued]
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NewsFire (Software)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Phil
For the OS X users out there, NewsFire is a new RSS / Atom reader
that offers functionality with simplicity and style. There's a variety
of RSS readers on Mac OS X, but none offer the style of NewsFire.
NewsFire is brimming with Aqua-beauty and a rich, dynamic user
experience. The others feel aesthetically unpleasant, bloated, and
stuck in an interface paradigm that doesn't make sense for RSS. The
kitchen sink is deliberately not included... [Continued]
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RSS Feed for Your Library Books
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Link to Friends | Posted by Phil
Peter Rukavina, who lives in Prince Edward Island, Canada, was
tired of forgetting what books were due when at his local library. So
he wrote a program in Perl to scrape his library's web site and
generate an RSS feed he could subscribe to. Although this example will
only work with the system that Peter's library uses (it could be
modified to work with other library systems), I expect to see more of
this as... [Continued]
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wTicker (Software)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Phil
wTicker is an aggregator for Windows that allows you to view RSS
headlines in "ticker" format. The look and layout of the tickers is
customizable. You can place a ticker in the title bar of your windows,
or in the task bar. You can even group tickers together. wTicker can
also function as a "normal" aggregator in that it offers a standard
two or three pane interface to view feed information. Another cool
feature is... [Continued]
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