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American Physical Society Has RSS Feeds 08/04/2008

American Physical Society is now providing content using RSS feeds. The feeds cover a few topics of strong current interest and draw from all of the APS journals.

FBI Adds More RSS 07/14/2008

The FBI recently expanded their news feed offerings on the FBI.gov website to include wanted fugitives and missing children. The feeds, which enable subscribers to get new FBI content and site updates delivered to them, include the popular Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list and Most Wanted Terrorists list.

Instant Messaging RSS Feeds 07/09/2008

IM Feeds is a new service that allows you to get RSS feeds via instant messaging. IM Feeds delivers RSS updates directly to your Instant Messenger.

Deal of the Day 07/08/2008

With the economy in a questionable state, everyone is looking for a good deal. Savvy business owners have jumped at the opportunity to carve out a niche for themselves in the struggling economy. Coupon and Deal-Of-The-Day websites have become extremely popular. Everyone is getting into the action, from large conglomerate websites to small specialty shops, and many now have some sort of Deal-Of-The-Day special where an item is offered at a significant discount for a specified and limited period of time. While the Deal-Of-The-Day websites were originally designed to capture impulse purchasers, many financially-conscious penny-pinching shoppers are now monitoring these sites regularly, in search of good deals on products they might need. Where to Find the Deals!

Web Easy Discounted 40% on Software Deal of the Day 07/07/2008

Web Easy is website design software that allows you to create a great website in one hour with drag-and-drop simplicity. WebEasy includes everything you need in one box to create your ideal website with built-in templates and e-commerce tools.  Web Easy is featured on Software Deal of the Day at a 40% discount for only 24 hours!

New Blogger Version Not Liked By Beta Testers 07/07/2008

A new version of Googles Blogger blog publishing service that went into public testing last week has generated some concerns among users, especially regarding a significant revamping of the tool for composing and modifying postings. In the official Google blog entry detailing the post editor changes, many testers have commented that the revamped tool differs too much from the current one, causing confusion, frustration and mistakes. complete article

The Traits of a Perfect Link 07/06/2008

Webmasters are given the advice that they must attract links, but the key is not just to attract links... they need to attract good links. But what is the perfect link? The search for the perfect link need not be a quest in vain. Consider the following when attempting to attract links... The Traits of a Perfect Link

Overcoming RSS 07/05/2008

I thought this was rather funny but sadly true -- a different kind of RSS. A look at a common affliction among domainers. Thousands of people suffer daily from Repetitive Statistics Syndrome (RSS). RSS is an obsessive compulsive disorder that involves checking revenue statistics from programs such as Google Adsense and domain parking multiple times a day. RSS sufferers know that checking their statistics repeatedly will not increase the final revenue number at the end of the day, but they can’t bring themselves to stop checking stats. This article will discuss RSS and what can be done about it. History of RSS. RSS began with early incarnations of public e-mail services such as AOL and Prodigy. People who were new to e-mail would check their accounts multiple times each hour to make sure they quickly knew if one of their friends had forwarded a funny picture of a cat to them or if they needed to send out a chain letter to 7 people in order to stave off bad luck. This was called RES for Repetitive Email Syndrome. complete details of overcoming RSS

Whoisi - Track People 07/04/2008

Whoisi is a central site that allows users to add people and their associated web feeds, and then track any number of these people and their feed items using a follower model. In Whoisi, any visitor to the site can define a person or an identity, and add the feeds associated with that person for other users to find and follow. To prevent vandalism, there is a revision history so that changes can be reversed.

Take Website Usability to the Next Level 07/03/2008

Website usability is more than just a good navigational structure. A large number of people have visual or hearing disabilities, so you should design your website in ways that allow those with either minor or significant impairments to view and navigate your web content. The following tips will help expand your websites usability so that all users, regardless of their sensory perception and abilities, are able to take advantage of your web content... Take Website Usability to the Next Level

Why Should You Use Web Templates? 07/02/2008

Web templates expedite the process of setting up a new website. The idea behind a web template is that it will save time with the creative design and layout process. In the business world, time is money; hence, using templates can save money. It can be a challenge to find a web designer for hire, and quite often the designers schedule will not always mesh with the needs of a small business. Time rarely controls a web graphic designer. Artists are, well, artistic, and don't necessarily work by the clock. Instead, they work when inspiration strikes, which can be problematic when there are deadlines to meet. Templates are ready-made, and can be easily edited, allowing you to instantly create a website. In addition, webmasters that may lack adequate graphic or design skills can quickly and easily create a website themselves, simply by editing and customizing the existing HTML layout in a web template. And locating a themed web template takes far less time than attempting to create a layout and graphics from scratch. Web templates also remove any coding issues. This is especially helpful to webmasters who are just starting out and just learning HTML coding. The bottom line is that webmasters who use web templates will have their websites up and running much quicker. Why Should You Use Web Templates?

Software Industry Conference 07/01/2008

The Software Industry Conference is coming to Boston July 17th through 19th, 2008. This exciting event, now in its 18th year, will be held at the Boston Marriott Quincy in Quincy MA. The Software Industry Conference features three days of informative sessions that cover a wide range of subjects of interest to software developers. There will be sessions on marketing, foreign markets, ecommerce, outsourcing development, copyrights and trademarks, and much more. The Software Industry Conference provides lots of time to network with other attendees. Thursday evening there is a night of fun, excitement, food, and beverages sponsored by Digital River, always a highlight of the conference. Friday evening features an Exhibit Night with vendors in over 20 booths and food and beverages for all. The Software Industry Conference is the premier software marketing event of the year.

Podcasting Rewards 06/20/2008

Getting started with podcasting is a relatively inexpensive venture. The equipment and software required for podcasting is inexpensive for a business contemplating podcasting as a new marketing and communication adventure. Required Equipment 1. A Computer Capable of Recording Audio 2. Recording and Editing Software (RecordForAll Suggested - US$39.00) 3. Podcast Creation Software (FeedForAll Suggested - US$39.00) 4. A Microphone 5. A Recording Location (quiet, without any echo) Reaping The Podcasting Rewards

The Associated Press Looking to Develop Blogging Guidelines 06/18/2008

The Associated Press, following criticism from bloggers over an AP assertion of copyright, plans to meet this week with a bloggers group to help form guidelines under which AP news stories could be quoted online. Jim Kennedy, the APs director of strategic planning, said Monday that he planned to meet Thursday with Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, as part of an effort to create standards for online use of AP stories by bloggers that would protect AP content without discouraging bloggers from legitimately quoting from it. complete article

The Attributes of a Perfect Link 06/17/2008

Webmasters are given the advice that they must attract links, but the key is not just to attract links... they need to attract good links. But what is the perfect link? The search for the perfect link need not be a quest in vain. Consider the following when attempting to attract links... The Attributes of a Perfect Link

Podcast Consumer Profile 06/13/2008

Podcast consumers are more likely to have a college degree and earn in excess of $75,000. They are also more frequent online shoppers and spend more money online than other Americans. These consumers are also adverse to interruption based advertising and use pop up blockers, SPAM filters and other tools to block out commercials. Podcast Consumer Profile

Google RSS to HTML Wizard 06/12/2008

Embed a Dynamic Feed Control on your web page and let your users see customized views of the feeds. Customize how the dynamic feed control should be displayed, and the Google wizard will write the code for you.

FEMA Adds RSS Feeds 06/11/2008

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency has added RSS Feeds. Now you can receive emergency alerts via RSS.

Government Website Improvements 06/10/2008

Government web sites have been a joke for almost as long as there have been web sites. They tend to be slow, clunky, and far behind their private-sector counterparts. All three presidential candidates have signaled that they want the federal government to make better use of the Internet, but there is a real danger that the next administration will simply add another coat of lipstick to a very ugly pig. A new paper from researchers at Princeton University suggests a different strategy. The focus should be on providing raw public data such as regulatory decisions, Congressional votes, and campaign finance data in open, structured formats such as RSS and XML. This raw data would be made freely and publicly available to anyone who wanted it and could be used for any purpose. complete article

LA Times Gets Web 2.0 05/27/2008

Paul Bradshaw is not a psychologist. He just plays one on the Internet. Calling himself an amateur psychotherapist to the blogerati, the U.K. blogger has identified common psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts as they adapt to the demands of new technologies. Among them: -- Comment guilt: Feelings of worthlessness and frustration that they don't comment more frequently on other peoples blogs. -- Twitter rage: Extreme psychopathic episodes directed at microblogging service outages (the most acute case currently being studied: TechCrunchs Mike Arrington) -- Twitterhoeia: The uncontrollable urge to share mundane experiences with Twitter followers (Arrington currently taking part in a case study) -- Six degrees of separation syndrome (also known as Robert Scoble multiple personality disorder): The delusion that he or she is just one friend removed from anyone else in the world and compulsively adds friends on social networks -- RSS reader Sisyphus complex: No matter how much time is spent checking RSS reader, there are still 8,978 posts unread. complete article

RSS Advertising Growth 05/21/2008

Pheedo, the leading provider of RSS advertising, today announced that Gawker Media, publisher of several of the webs most popular media properties including Gizmodo and Lifehacker, experienced more than 300 percent growth in RSS advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2008. complete release

China Unable to Stop Content Flow 05/20/2008

China is now home to the worlds largest number of Internet and mobile phone users, and their hunger for quake news is forcing the government to let information flow in ways it has not before. Almost nonstop, the uncensored opinions of Chinese citizens are popping up online, sent by text and instant message across a country shaken by its worst earthquake in three decades.

Who Owns Content? 05/13/2008

PC Mag takes on the question of who owns content, especially where RSS Feeds are concerned: Every day people put virtual truckloads of information into the public domain. Books are published. Newspapers printed. A lot of that ends up on the Internet as well, along with the words of bloggers and other online denizens. All of these people make content public so that others can hopefully benefit from it. Once it is out in the public domain, who owns it? Well, the author of course, or in some cases, their employers. That makes sense when we're talking about a web Wage. But sometimes, in order to make it easier for people to find and read the information, it is delivered as an RSS feed. RSS breaks down the information into article-sized chunks and streams it out so that news-reading tools can grab it and display it for users.

MyTVRSS 05/12/2008

Create your own TV RSS Feed using MyTVRSS. Select your favorite shows below, and then click Create feed to generate your own personalized RSS feed. We will then alert you through the RSS feed the day an episode is aired.

National Intelligence Adopts RSS 05/07/2008

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which controls 16 federal agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, is engaged in a technological revolution of sorts. On at least one technological front, the office on Tuesday broke out an RSS feed on its flashy, newly designed public web site.

Job Seeking RSS Feeds 05/01/2008

A guide for using RSS feeds for jobseeking. By their very nature, regularly updated sites that advertise jobs are ideal platforms for RSS technology. The feeds should be categorised or customisable to your interests and always be free for you to access. Jobseeking is an ideal candidate for RSS technology. more on RSS for Jobseeking

Choose a Domain 04/29/2008

Choosing a domain is one of the first steps in establishing an online presence. Changing a domain after-the-fact can be time consuming, and can be harmful to search engine ranking, so it is best to get it right the first time around. Follow these simple steps to select a domain name that will represent your online brand... Choose a Domain

Dilbert Goes RSS 04/28/2008

The new Dilbert.com offers the poupular comic via RSS Feeds.

3rd Party Feeds May Incur Liability Issues 04/24/2008

A French court has punished web publishers because of snippets of text that appeared on their sites via an RSS reader. It is believed to be the first time that a website operator has been held responsible for content delivered by a third parties RSS feed. complete article

Boston Marathon RSS Feed 04/21/2008

Follow the latest Marathon news with the Boston Marathon News Feed or the  Google Boston Marathon News Feed.The Boston Marathon is the worlds oldest annual marathon.

Feed Tracking Numbers 04/15/2008

Search Engine Land posted an interesting piece that analyzes who the various aggregators count RSS feed subscribers. Bloglines will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber. Google will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber. Microsofts Live.com does not appear to share subscriber numbers. Netvibes will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber. NewsGator will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber. Pageflakes will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber. Rojo will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber. Yahoo requires that the subscribed user has viewed (logs into My Yahoo or Yahoo Mail) your feed within 30 days to be counted as a subscriber.

Blog Posts that Attract Attention 04/14/2008

Blogs are now a dime a dozen, and bloggers need to make their blog posts stand out. Developing a blog following is not as easy as it once was. Learn how to write blog posts that attract readers and retain their attention. Follow these guidelines to cultivate readers... Blog Posts that Attract Attention

Avoid Duplicate Content Penalties 04/09/2008

While it may still be debatable whether all the major search engines currently employ a duplicate content penalty, all have made it abundantly clear that they do not have any desire to provide search results that rehash the same content over and over. Actively avoid any potential penalties by taking a proactive approach to building unique content. Avoid Duplicate Content Penalties

NanoTech Feeds 04/08/2008

Nanowerk, the No. 1 nanotechnology portal, announced that it is offering a set of free nanotechnology news feeds for other websites and content providers.

China Assures No Internet Blocking During Olympics 04/07/2008

China is progressing well toward the Olympics with fewer than 130 days remaining, and organizers have given assurances that Internet and media access will meet Olympic standards, an International Olympic Committee official said last week.

Clickz Takes on the Issue of Blog Credibility 04/06/2008

Organic search results credibility and trustworthiness have always been widely debated. When SEO (define) first became a hot tactic in online marketing, search engines results became littered with spam -- doorway pages, link farms, you name it. Now that the search engines have become smarter and their algorithms increasingly complex, they are much better at weeding out spam. But how do you define spam? Is it sites that provide no inherent value (e.g., a page full of links or ads) or content that's potentially invalid, unproved, or biased? The answer to that question probably depends a lot on who you ask. Clickz Questions Credibility of Blogs Here is another article from a different source a few months ago: Credibility online is becoming more and more of an issue. Anyone can have a blog or post to a forum and anyone can edit wiki entries. Web surfers are beginning to comprehend that just because it is in print does not necessarily mean that it is true. In fact, in today's online world, the collective truth might be the closest thing we can get to the real truth. Peer policing and social bookmarking have become common in the online world. Human nature invariably prompts a level of trust;if it is written, it must be true. We live in a generation where we expect authors, editors and publishers that are qualified to write on various topics. What qualifications are required to post a blog, write an online article, or edit a wiki? Some web surfers may find the answer startling: None. Expertise is no longer a prerequisite. Wikipedia is a popular online reference, that frequently obtains top ranking in search engines as a reference source. How many Wikipedia readers realize that Wikipedia can be edited by anyone at anytime, regardless of their qualifications. Questioning Online Credibility

Performing Better Searches 04/05/2008

Performing and perfecting search engine results can save web surfers lots of time and energy. Understanding the nuances of searching allows researchers to immediately drill down and locate the information they are seeking, without having to wade through a myriad of irrelevant search results in the process. The increasing complexity of search engines has made understanding search engines a necessity for those who spend any amount of time online. The following search tips are standards that will work in most of the major search engines. Use this guide to Perform Better Searches

Blogger Ordered to Pay for Libel 04/04/2008

A Malaysian court has ordered a top blogger and editors of an opposition newspaper to pay 2.2 million dollars in damages over libel claims by a university head, reports said last Thursday.

Syria is Cracking Down on Web 04/03/2008

Syria is cracking down more on Internet use, imposing tighter monitoring of citizens who link to the Web, as well as jailing bloggers who criticize the government and blocking YouTube and other Web sites deemed harmful to state security.

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