RSS Blog & RSS News
| Errors in Feeds |
12/29/2005 | |
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GoogleReader posted an interesting summary of common errors in RSS feeds. There are lots of
tools available to create rss feeds, and even tools like
FeedForAll that will fix malformed feeds, so I really
don't understand why they are seeing such a large percentage
of improperly formed RSS feeds.
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| No
Index Extension for RSS |
12/28/2005 | |
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As a result of roundtable discussions at the
recent Syndicate Conference, Greg Reinacker has proposed a
namespace extension that would indicate feeds should not be
indexed. This would address the issue of personalized feeds.
The namespace proposal is very straight forward and makes
perfect sense.
More on Greg's No Index
Proposal
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| Podcasting Blog |
12/27/2005 | |
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While this site is focussed on all aspects of
RSS, the podcasting blog focus' on RSS feeds with
audio content in the enclosure field. If you are interested in
exploring the world of podcasting Podcasting Tools is a good place to
start.
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| Microsoft Ups Stakes In RSS Race |
12/27/2005 | |
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Companies that offer RSS reader products and
services are now in a race against time, as Microsoft prepares
RSS functionality within Outlook.
I think NewsGator is
positioned to really challenge Microsoft for the space but it
will be interesting to watch the outcome. Of course Microsoft
could just purchase NewsGator and head to market
faster...
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| RSS Cases Blog |
12/23/2005 | |
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Rok Hrastnik has announced a content addition
for Marketing Studies. RSS
Cases is written by Raj Kumar Dash and will provide RSS
technology advice, to help you understand RSS technology
issues and explain different RSS business
cases.
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| RSS Best Blogs Nomination |
12/23/2005 | |
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The RSS Specification Blog was nominated on KbCafe's list of best RSS
blogs! We're honored to be included in the
list. Voting is open until New Years
Eve.
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| 2006 Year of RSS |
12/23/2005 | |
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From USA Today -
RSS will become the
biggest thing since ...
The Web browser? Beanie
Babies? Salt? Hard to say yet. But there is no shortage of
effusiveness about Real Simple Syndication, or RSS —
software code used to deliver news stories, blogs and other
items via the Internet to your computer screen on readers such
as My Yahoo or NewsGator. The prediction is that RSS will
become the primary way everyone accesses stuff on the
Web.
"We believe 2006 is the year of
RSS," says Mark Carlson, CEO of RSS company SimpleFeed. Adds
author and consultant Steve Waite, "RSS is likely to take off
in 2006 and could well displace e-mail as the killer app on
the Net."
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| Another New RSS Directory |
12/20/2005 | |
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nFeeds is another new RSS Feed directory.
What I don't understand is on the submission page why do you
have to fill out all the details? Why can't the directories
extract that information from the RSS feed?
Would
certainly simplify the submission
process.
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| Apple Program Supports Microsoft Simple
List Extensions |
12/19/2005 | |
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FeedForAll Mac an application for Apple's to
create, edit and publish RSS feeds now includes integrated
support for Microsoft Simple List Extension. While FeedForAll
Mac supports all RSS 2.0 namespaces, the program also
currently has integrated support for the Apple iTunes
namespace, Dublin Core, Syndication and Content namespaces as
well. Ironically the Mac version has integrated support prior
to the Windows version, which currently has rudimentary
support for namespaces in the FeedForAll v2.0 beta.
According to the
Press Release:
"Support for Microsoft Simple List
Extensions has been added to FeedForAll Mac. FeedForAll Mac, a
popular tool for creating, managing and publishing RSS feeds,
now includes integrated support of the Microsoft's Simple List
namespace."
"FeedForAll Mac has a
built-in wizard that makes creating and maintaining the RSS
feed and Simple List Extension easy. FeedForAll Mac currently
has integrated support for the Apple iTunes, the Microsoft
Simple Lists Extensions, and the Dublin Core namespace, making
the management of those namespaces significantly
easier."
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| Duke Alerts Users to Tech
Updates |
12/19/2005 | |
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Another idea for RSS feeds -
Duke's
Office of Information Technology (OIT) has developed an RSS
feed to help keep the university community informed and
updated about interruptions to technology services.
The
Service Updates page is updated daily with service
maintenances scheduled by OIT, in addition to unplanned
outages. The announcements contain the name of the service;
whether the interruption is planned or unplanned; start and
end times; and an explanation of how the interruption affects
users and where to go for more
information.
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| Microsoft and FireFox Continuity |
12/16/2005 | |
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Microsoft will designate RSS feeds in the
Internet Explorer 7 browser using the same orange icon that
appears at the far right in the address bar of Firefox.
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| Pheedo Issues Quarterly Pheed Read Report
Detailing RSS Usage Trends |
12/16/2005 | |
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Today at the Syndicate Conference, Pheedo, the
RSS advertising and analytics experts, released its second in
a series of "Pheed Read" reports, providing RSS publishers,
advertisers and users insight into RSS usage patterns. The
complete "Pheed Read" report is available on Pheedo's
blog.
Pheedo's analysis is based on the activity on
its network of advertisers and publishers.The following
conclusions and analysis are based on traffic during Fall
2005. Study findings include:
-- Standalone RSS ads
are far more successful than inline ads. A standalone RSS ad
(the entire post is the advertisement) generates, on average,
a 7.99% click-through rate (CTR) -- over nine times more
clicks than an inline RSS ad (an advertisement within a
publisher's post).
-- Placing RSS ads in every other
post yields the highest percentage of click throughs. When ads
are placed in every other feed post, users clicked on the ad
3.24% of the time. This is over three times more effective
than placing an advertisement in every post in a feed, where
the CTR is 1.04%.
-- RSS content and advertisement CTR
varies significantly based on the day of the week. Contrary to
earlier "Pheed Read" data, which showed peak CTR on Tuesday,
Monday and Saturday have emerged as the days with the
highest
CTR while Thursday and Friday show the lowest
percentage.
-- Mid-week readership of RSS feeds
highest. Consistent with the previous "Pheed Read" report, RSS
readership rises
steadily at the beginning of the week,
peaking on Tuesday and Wednesday, and then declines through
the weekend. Average weekend readership is over 67% lower than
average weekday readership.
-- RSS ads are
outperforming similar Web ads. With traditional and rich-media
online ads garnering CTR ranging from .20% to 1.17% CTR,
according to a report by DoubleClick, standalone RSS ads, with
an average CTR of 7.99%, are outperforming traditional online
ads by a wide margin.
-- Bloglines leads RSS readers in
market share. Bloglines is the most used RSS reader among
Pheedo publisher subscribers, consistent with previous "Pheed
Read" data. With 34% penetration, Bloglines overshadows Yahoo,
NetNewsWire and Mozilla -- each with about 14% reader
penetration.
The "Pheed Read" is released quarterly by
Pheedo and details trends in RSS usage. In addition to the
"Pheed Read," Pheedo provides capabilities that allow
publishers to view detailed feed usage information about their
feeds.
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| Target Gets the Point of RSS |
12/14/2005 | |
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Retailer giant Target has created an RSS feed
that contains details from their weekly circular. The feed advertised to "get
a jump on Sunday's paper" highlights the week's discounted
items.
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| Reuters Selects FeedBurner to Deliver
Global News and Advertising to RSS
Subscribers |
12/14/2005 | |
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Reuters, the world's largest international
multimedia news source, has selected FeedBurner, the leading
feed management provider, to expand its delivery of text news
via RSS subscriptions and to enable advertising within the
feeds. Through its RSS service, Reuters global network of
websites distribute relevant news updates to consumers.
FeedBurner is providing Reuters with advanced services to
manage its feeds in the United States, United Kingdom and
Japan, to help it grow subscribers, reach new advertisers and
to measure the circulation of its subscription feeds.
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| Feed of the Year Countdown |
12/13/2005 | |
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Feedster is conducting a feed
countdown.
Since 2003, Feedster has selected a
Feed of the Day to acknowledge an undiscovered blog or topical
feed. The new Feed of the Year award was created to honor
writers who have displayed
continued excellence in blogging. A panel of
independent judges reviewed each 2005 Feed of the Day and
rated them for uniqueness, freshness, presentation, usability,
and community.
I'm disappointed they are
not recognizing non-blog feeds in the
competition.
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| Comedy Central RSS Feeds |
12/12/2005 | |
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Psssst! Get the best of Comedy Central delivered
directly to you via RSS. Comedycentral.com's new RSS feed lets you
know when they have updated last night's Daily Show Headline
video, your favorite show clips, read our Jokes of the Day and
even see the latest entries on the Comedy Central Insider.
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| The Edublog Nominees for 2005 Have Been
Announced |
12/07/2005 | |
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The nomines for the 2005 international Edublog
Awards have been annouced. Over 60 nominations forms went into
providing this year’s list – which gives a very good
overview of the quality, diversity and scope of how blogs are
being used to support and extend teaching, learning, and
research, and to create and reinforce educational communities.
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| rss2html.php Script Updated |
12/06/2005 | |
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Convert your RSS feeds to spiderable HTML web
pages. Free PHP script automatically updates each time the
website is accessed.
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script
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| AOL Features MTV Feeds |
12/07/2005 | |
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AOL today announced that its video search engine
will now feature RSS feeds from MTV Networks' programming
services. Video content from the company's highly popular CMT,
Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, MTV2, mtvU, The N, Nickelodeon,
Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., Nicktoons, Noggin, Spike, TV Land and
VH1 Web sites are now accessible through AOL's best-in-class
video search engine available through the AOL.com portal's
Video On Demand , AOL Search and on the AOL service.
In addition, Singingfish , one of the Web's premier video
and audio search engines, and its network of search properties
will also feature content from MTV Networks.
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| RSS Firms Put Money on Portland Tech
Company |
12/06/2005 | |
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RSS Investors -- the newly-formed venture
capital firm that is investing in all things related to really
simple syndication has made its first investment. It joined
with SmartForest Ventures to invest $9 million in
Portland-based Attensa.
The folks at RSS Investors,
which reportedly was looking to raise a $100 million fund, are
obviously big believers in the Attensa technology.
Attensa, Inc. is developing an end-to-end RSS Network
that automatically and intelligently delivers prioritized,
relevant RSS information to anyone in the world and on any
device.
Looks like Attensa is going after NewsGator's
marketshare.
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| Monitoring and Tracking RSS |
12/05/2005 | |
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Measuring and tracking RSS while a fairly simple
concept, is really anything but. Unlike websites, RSS have the
added caveat of potential syndication, making accurate
tracking a challenge to anyone but the extremely tech savvy.
It is not unrealistic for marketers to want to know
how many subscribers they have, which items in their feeds
attract the most interest, or how many click-throughs are
generated as a result of an RSS feed.
There are a
number of 3rd party providers who focus on tracking the
consumption of RSS feeds. Some solutions are rudimentary but
likely sufficient for a small business testing the waters with
RSS. Other RSS tracking solutions are more complex and while
they can come close to being accurate, with syndication there
is no solution that tracks with 100% accuracy.
Monitoring and Tracking RSS
Feeds
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| Murdoch Sees Gloom for
Newspapers |
12/05/2005 | |
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Murdoch feels RSS and syndication is a threat to
traditional newspapers.
The media magnate Rupert
Murdoch predicted a gloomy future for newspapers, which he
said are failing to adapt to the realities of the Internet.
Murdoch, whose global business interests
include leading titles in London, New York and Sydney, said
the traditional press and the Internet would exist side by
side "for many, many years to
come."
"There will always be room for
good journalism and good reporting," he told Britain's media
trade journal Press Gazette, but costs had been stripped to a
bare minimum.
"They have already all
stripped all the costs out, now they have to depend on
advertising. And that is certainly under threat," he
said.
Complete Article
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| Yahoo Takes Another RSS Step |
12/01/2005 | |
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Yahoo was set to unveil on Wednesday a new
Really Simple Syndication feed alert service and integration
of RSS feeds into its new Yahoo Mail beta, making the company
the first to offer RSS in a major Web-based e-mail system.
The new RSS feed alert service will allow people to
receive alerts via e-mail, instant message or SMS message,
just as they currently can receive alerts for news stories
about a specified topic, stock moves and game scores.
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| Playstation Adds RSS Support |
12/01/2005 | |
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Sony has released version 2.60 of the
PlayStation Portable firmware in Japan and North America,
expanding on the functionality of the console with the
addition of features including WMA audio playback and RSS feed
reading.
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