An RSS Blog - Daily News and Information Related to RSS Feeds, Syndication and Aggregation.Daily RSS Blog and news related to RSS, really simple syndication, rdf, blogs, syndication and news aggregation. Information related to marketing RSS, new RSS software releases, beta test opportunities, new RSS directories and discussions of opportunities related to RSS.The Best Software of 2007 - Nominations are In- May 31, 2007 The nominations for the 2007 Shareware Industry Awards have been announced! Take a look at the best of the best! Best Overall Utility FolderMatch by Salty Brine Software TuneUp Utilities 2007 by TuneUp Software GmbH WinRar by win.rar GmbH WinZip by WinZip International LLC. Best Application ClipMate by Thornsoft Development CSE HTML Validator by AI Internet Solutions Open Office by Sun Microsystems Best Graphics Program or Utility Easy Imager by Fookes Software...http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm#744 Education and RSS- May 30, 2007 Academia has embraced RSS as a means to educate, but scrutinizing how educational institutions are using RSS feeds in their daily routines show RSS is utilized can vary across different industries. 1. Share Resources Academics are using social bookmarking websites to share quality websites that relate to their area of expertise with colleagues and students. 2. Class Blogs From elementary schools to university blogs, online journals have flourished. Instructors have used blogging as..http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm#743 FeedBurner Interview on Search Engine Watch- May 30, 2007 Discussions about full and partial feeds emerge in an interview with Rick Klau from FeedBurner.http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm#742 Whats Up Feed Monitoring- May 30, 2007 Whats Up is a graduation project, but they might have some trademark issues with the popular network monitoring software by the same name - WhatsUp Whats Up is an application that tracks a large number of RSS news feeds. The sources of these feeds are displayed on this world map. Whenever any of the news feeds releases a new article, its title immediately pops up. Instead of listing previously released news, this application shows news as it is released, so you can see what is up right at this.http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm#741 Why Did Google Purchase FeedBurner- May 29, 2007 Feedburner currently manages 721,000 feeds from 423,000 publishers, including many major mainstream news publications, including USA Today, Dow Jones and Reuters. Worth 100 million dollars Google thinks so.http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm#740 Firefox and RSS- May 29, 2007 This is a complete guide to Firefox and RSS. Although many seasoned RSS users have a standalone RSS reader of choice, many people use Firefox to read their RSS feeds. Besides the standard Live Bookmark feature, there are several more advanced RSS addons for Firefox out there, some of them being developed for years now. Time to round them up and see what they have to offer.http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm#739 Great RSS Usage- May 22, 2007 This stock photo website uses RSS to notify subscribers when new photos are added to the website. Subscribers can choose feeds based on categories or subscribe to see all the newest photos. Stock Photo Feedshttp://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm#738 URLFan RSS Ranking Website- May 22, 2007 URLFan takes on Alexa using a different algo to rank websites. According to their website URLFan is an evolving experiment designed to discover what websites the blogosphere is discussing all in real time. It does this by cultivating the content of thousands of RSS feeds and parsing billions of pieces of information.http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm#737 MonitorThis! - OPML of Ego Feeds- May 21, 2007 Ego searches have increased in popularity and more and more businesses are using them to monitor publicity. MonitorThis allows you to setup ego search feeds with 22 different engines at the same time. It creates an OPML file for each of the engines. Another option is to merge all the feeds using a tool like RSSmesh so you have all the ego feeds in a single feed. You can even filter out duplicates.http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm#735 BlueSky Bought RSSFwd- May 21, 2007 Blue Sky Factory, an email marketing service providers, announced that it has acquired RSSFWD, a provider of RSS to email technology solutions. The RSSFWD service converts RSS content into HTML email format, and deploys updated content directly to the inbox of subscribers. Currently utilized by more than 30,000 active and unique users, the service polls more than 32,000 unique RSS feeds, deploying 4 million emails per month worldwide. Blue Sky Factory will operate RSSFWD as an autonomous...http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm#736 |