RSS
Stowe ain’t no pigeon
Anyone who follows more than a couple of feeds in their reader has had this problem. Bolded numbers in brackets blinking back at you you, telling you how many articles you need to scan to stay current - do you click "read all" and be done with it? What if you miss something? How do [...]
Yahoo integrates RSS into Mail client
RSS reading is going to be integrated into the next version of Yahoo Mail which is out in limited beta (to get on the beta list, go to What’s New with Yahoo! Mail). John Furrier sat down to talk with Scott Gatz and Ethan Diamond of Yahoo who both played a big part in the [...]
RSS for Data Synchronization
Exciting news out of Redmond. Ray Ozzie is bringing his experience and approach to synchronization that he applied to his earlier products Lotus Notes and Groove to Microsoft’s implimentation of RSS. We can look for future products such as their hosted Live products suite to include these synchronization features and Ray has published a post [...]
RSS feeds for Salesforce.com
You gotta love it. Ex-Newsgator developer, Charlie Wood has attached RSS feeds to salesforce.com. If you have a salesforce.com subscription, you can now subscribe to a feed of your Open Opportunities or Open Escalations. This has been out since July and is now in 2.0 - I’m only now caught wind of it.
On their TypePad-powered [...]
The lowdown on RSS Feeds
Feeds, feeds, feeds. What are they and what can they do for me? How do I read them and how do I make them? All of us at Six Apart get these questions everyday. For this very reason, Anil’s written up a great summary. Without further ado, the Six Apart Guide to Feeds.
Please resist the [...]
Charlie Wood, RSS as the Information Bus
I wonder how many out there have, upon reading Steve Jobs’ recent commencement address, have reconfigured their life to pursue their dreams. First Richard MacManus cited Jobs’ speech as inspiration. Now, Charlie Wood, VP of Enterprise Solutions of Newsgator, has left his job to start a new venture. Spanning Partners will offer RSS integration services [...]
Microsoft, Longhorn, and RSS
Lots of buzz around Microsoft’s announcement that they are going to bake RSS into the next generation of Windows, Longhorn. If you’ve got the time, I highly recommend you sit through the MSDN Channel 9 video interview with the Longhorn/RSS team taken the day before their announcement at Gnomedex. You can feel the energy and [...]
Technorati Beta
It’s out folks, the latest and greatest version of Technorati is now available in a public beta. It’s smoothed out its corners and added a whole host of pre-loaded searches of top searches, news, books, movies right up front. If you login to your account on Technorati, you can also view your Watchlist searches right [...]
Syndication Monkeys Gone Mad
It was inevitable. Richard MacManus posts his thoughts on vendors that are taking the publish & subscribe model of RSS and turning it around to sell an automated way to republish RSS feeds and "create" content on their clients’ sites. They position RSS as a quick way to harness other people’s original work for easy [...]
Fresno Bee does RSS
Mark Thompson over at the Fresno Bee is turning on the paper’s online readers to the wonder and glory of RSS with a nice little how-to piece on Beehive, the site’s blog. A couple of people in the past few weeks have told me to check out what the Bee is up to and I’m [...]
