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Google Reader Power Readers - unlocked

September 25, 2008

Browsing my feeds this morning I saw an ad for Google’s Power Readers feature appended on the bottom of a TechCrunch post. The ad pointed to the Google Power Reader page, an editorially crafted bundle of feeds made up of linkblog posts, generated by celebrities hand-picked and using Google Reader. This is the first time [...]

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Feedburner Stats Way Down

May 11, 2008

I noticed a big drop in the number of Feedburner subscribers to my blog over the past few days with the number of subscribers dropping nearly 50% starting sometime Thursday last week (May 8th). I noticed one other person reporting a drop and they pointed to Google Reader numbers being the culprit and, sure enough, [...]

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Google Reader adds Search. Why Competition is Good.

September 7, 2007

Just a few days after posting about the new Bloglines beta and how it was nice to re-discover their search your feeds feature, Google announced that they’ve finally added a search box to their Reader.
I’m staying with Bloglines right now for the novelty of it but I’ve noticed;

Things that get marked “read” don’t seem to [...]

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Bloglines beta - so nice to see ya.

August 27, 2007

The Time & Newsweek of the Web 2.0 blogosphere both mention the re-launch of Bloglines. It’s great to see another reader on the market just for variety’s sake. I moved to Google Reader a while ago as my main reader mostly because of it’s mobile interface which looks great on the Blackberry. I had left [...]

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Facebook and RSS out

August 15, 2007

(photo by: mariachisamurai)
Dave Winer pointed out that RSS feeds are now available for your Friends Status, Friends Posted and Notifications pages in Facebook. The friends updates have been around for a while but the notifications feed might be new. An astute comment on the Techcrunch post about this news says:
The news feed really was a [...]

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Yahoo! Pipes : A Giant Erector Set for the Web

February 7, 2007

I’m not a programmer but I love to tinker. Much to the chagrin of my parents, I liked nothing better than taking things apart and seeing how they worked. The thing that made the early web so much fun was the View > Page Source command in the browser which allowed me to take apart [...]

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Subscribe to PDF files via iTunes

May 5, 2006

Steve Rubel points to an interesting development of Apple’s iTunes client.
The addition of PDFs to iTunes is more than just a mildly interesting occurrence. iTunes, as a ubiquitous cross-platform app, has its own embedded browser that powers the music store. It’s conceivable that Apple could turn iTunes into a dedicated RSS reader that operates [...]

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Why you need to syndicate full text feeds

February 26, 2006

Many have writtten about the need to publish full text feeds. Most from the perspective of the reader who is not likely going to be bothered with excerpts in their reader. I subscribe to 74 feeds but only one of them requires me to click through (Good Morning Silicon Valley if you must know, I [...]

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Google Reader API and Microsoft plans to bake RSS reader into next version of Outlook

December 27, 2005

Niall Kennedy rolled up his sleeves and reverse engineered the Google Reader product to document the API that runs it. After posting his findings, Google let him know that they are planning on opening access to the API. Cool!
In other news, Microsoft has let it be known that the next version of Outlook will include [...]

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Rocketboom now available on your Tivo

December 9, 2005

Rocketboom, the daily video newscast is now available for download to your broadband connected Tivo.

We differ from a regular TV program in many important ways.
Instead of costing millions of dollars to produce, Rocketboom is
created with a consumer-level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a
map with no additional overhead or costs.

It’s also distributed via RSS [...]

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