RSS Blog & RSS News
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Search Engine Optimization for Blogs |
08/17/2007
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Use your blog to help your website attract traffic. Attention to search engine optimization details could mean the difference between popular and unpopular.
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs
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Cyndicate is a new email like RSS reader for the Mac O/S. Manually or automatically download podcasts and enclosures using Cyndicate.
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Beginner Guide to RSS |
08/14/2007
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Small Office Australia posted a good Beginners Guide to RSS.
This information guide is intended as my way to introduce the whole concept of RSS to Australians who have heard of rss and would like to know more.
I suspect that as it is around the world, only a very small percentage of people understand and actually use RSS - and Australia is no different. In fact, anecdotal evidence shows that the use of RSS is well under 10%.
The reason behind The Beginner Guide to RSS is that mainstream Australia - even those frequently using the web - are not taking up rss usage in numbers that was hoped for. In other words, there is still a long way to go to educate people on the advantages of using rss to manage their online information. I hope this guide goes some way in helping this along.
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RSS Field Explanation |
08/09/2007
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This chart contains detailed information about the fields contained in an RSS feed. Feed creators can use this to assist with feed creation.
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Government Bloggers |
08/09/2007
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Every U.S. presidential candidate has a Web site, of course, but when the top Democratic hopefuls were asked on Saturday whether they would appoint a White House blogger if elected, all of them said yes.
You need not look far to find Government RSS Feeds.
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RSS Feeds for Logos |
08/08/2007
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Receive notification when new logos become available. Great use for RSS Feeds.
RSS Feeds for Logos
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Common Errors that Kill Search Engine Ranking |
08/07/2007
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Tricking the search engines just does not work. The search engines do not look kindly upon webmasters who attempt to deceive the search engines about the content contained on a webpage.
1. Cloaking
Cloaking a website is a stealth technique used to provide a copy of a web page to search engines while providing an alternate copy to website visitors. The website copy provided to the search engine is optimized and not always reflective of the real content contained on the webpage.
Common Errors that Kill Search Engine Ranking
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What is a Blogathon? |
08/06/2007
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During the Blogathon, people update their websites every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. For this, they collect sponsorships. Pledges can be a flat donation, or a certain amount for every hour the blogger manages to stay awake.
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Blog for Legislation |
08/04/2007
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A blog launched this month has teamed with a U.S. senator in an effort to write new broadband legislation, and so far participants have given the process high marks.
OpenLeft.com, a blog focused on liberal issues, has been hosting a wide-ranging discussion on broadband policy since Tuesday. Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat and assistant majority leader in the Senate, has joined the discussion, saying he'll use the ideas from OpenLeft to craft broadband legislation.
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RSS Higher Value than Blogs |
08/03/2007
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RSS has the highest value among Web 2.0 technologies, according to a Forrester Research report released Friday.
The research firm surveyed 275 IT decision-makers online between April and June.
Twenty-three percent of those surveyed report substantial business value for RSS. One in three uses RSS for marketing purposes. Podcasting came in right behind RSS, with 21% reporting substantial business value.
By contrast, only 11% said blogging delivers substantial business value. Fourteen percent said their company does not measure Web 2.0 business value at all. Of those that do measure, the majority look at traditional metrics such as ROI and total cost of ownership.
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National Geographic Feeds |
08/02/2007
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National Geographic News headlines and story summaries are now available via RSS feeds.
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GreenPeace has RSS Feeds |
08/01/2007
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GreenPeace has RSS feeds. The RSS feeds cover issues from global warming to genetic engineering.
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Banks and Financial Institutions are Using RSS Feeds |
07/27/2007
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Financial institutions are reaching out to clients using RSS feeds. While banks and financial institutions are usually slow to adopt new technology, that is not the case with RSS adoption. More and more professionals are using RSS in innovative ways, to stay ahead of their competition.
1. Bank Rate Changes
Bankers are using RSS to communicate bank rate changes. Feeds are updated regularly to reflect changes to adjustable rate mortgages or the interest rate for CDs.
example:
Federal Reserve http://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds
2. Stock Monitoring
Stock analysts monitor stock market changes using RSS feeds. As specific stocks and bonds rise and fall RSS feeds are updated. Many of the tools allow you to customize RSS feeds selecting the stocks or mutual funds that you wish to monitor.
example:
Smart Money - http://www.smartmoney.com/rss/
More Financial Uses of RSS Feeds
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NewsGator Released iPhone RSS Reader |
07/26/2007
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NewsGator Technologies, Inc., announced the availability of NewsGator Mobile for iPhone, a free reader that complements the design and interface of the iPhone. NewsGator Mobile for iPhone is free for existing NewsGator NewsGator Online accounts.
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TurnHere and Pheedo Partner |
07/24/2007
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TurnHere, Inc., an online video solutions platform, and Pheedo, an RSS marketing company, today announced a strategic partnership focused on the mass distribution of authentic, highly engaging online video content via real-time, RSS feed-powered technology.
complete article
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Google Reader Security Hole |
07/21/2007
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A DigitalPoint Forums member points to a vulnerability within Google Reader that enables blog owners to add code to their blog that will allow any visitor to automatically subscribe to the RSS feed.
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Dave Winer has posted a draft specification of OPML 2.0 .
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Social Bookmarking Icons |
07/19/2007
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Great robust collection of social bookmarking icons. Icons are the rage in Web 2.0 and it seems to have really gathered steam.
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RSS Feed Bandwidth Savers |
07/18/2007
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This article details a number of ways that will allow you to save bandwidth when using RSS feeds. They forgot one though:
#9 RSS Cache , the rss2html Cache module reduces bandwith and speeds up the process of displaying RSS feeds as html web pages.
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CustomRSS is a highly customizable Google Gadget for your personalized Google homepage. CustomRSS is a widget and it has lots of options for customization.
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RSS Feeds for Stock Photos |
07/03/2007
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Great use for RSS Feeds!
This website provides RSS Feeds for stock photos. As new photos are added to the directory, the RSS feeds are updated. If you are looking for specific types of photos you can simply subscribe to the RSS feed.
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Feedster Overhaul |
07/02/2007
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Feedster got a new look. Lots of formating changes as well!
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New website to entice RSS feed subscribers. Feed Growth.
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Consumer Reports Has RSS Feeds |
06/26/2007
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The popular consumer reports website has adopted RSS feeds.
Receiving the latest news, product Ratings and reviews, buying advice, and much more from Consumer Reports has never been easier. These free feeds include headlines, summaries and links back to ConsumerReports.org for full articles. With our RSS feeds, you can get the expert, independent consumer product and protection information you've come to expect from Consumer Reports - when you want it and how you want it.
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25 Up and Coming Web Sites |
06/18/2007
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Think that all of the great Web sites have already been invented? Think again. The Internet is evolving in new and inventive ways thanks to mashups that pull data from all over the Web. Check out these 25 up and coming Web 2.0 technologies.
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Auto Discovery Code Generator |
06/12/2007
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Many webmasters struggle with the auto-discovery code that should be added to the header of an HTML web page to automatically indicate to web browsers that an RSS feed for the contents is available. There has been debate, and of course controversy on how the code should be formed, making it ever more confusing for webmasters.
The solution, use a free online tool that will auto generate the code that can then be inserted into your website.
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Custom Google RSS Search |
06/12/2007
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RSS Locator is a custom RSS search engine that uses Google to search RSS diretories.
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New RSS Directory |
06/11/2007
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RSSBuffet is a new RSS directory for locating RSS feeds.
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Education and RSS |
05/30/2007
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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 a teaching tool. Helping students learn writing and reporting skills while understanding how to use technology. Many educational bloggers use RSS as a means to syndicate blog posts.
3. School Schedule Sports Schedule
RSS feeds can be used to communicate events scheduled on or off campus to prospective and existing students. Subscribes of a schools calendar feed receive notification as new items are added to the calendar.
RSS and Education
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FeedBurner Interview on Search Engine Watch |
05/30/2007
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Discussions about full and partial feeds emerge in an interview with Rick Klau from FeedBurner.
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Whats Up Feed Monitoring |
05/30/2007
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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 moment in the world.
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Why Did Google Purchase FeedBurner? |
05/29/2007
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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.
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Firefox and RSS |
05/28/2007
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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.
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Great RSS Usage |
05/22/2007
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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 Feeds
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URLFan RSS Ranking Website |
05/22/2007
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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.
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BlueSky Bought RSSFwd |
05/21/2007
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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 service as a complement to their current offerings.
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MonitorThis! - OPML of Ego Feeds |
05/21/2007
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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.
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