RSS Blog & RSS News
| Weblog Censorship by Businesses |
10/31/2005 | |
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While much of the online world crows on about
the benefits of interactivity and community building, the
plain truth is that such openness punching through from the
open Web to intranets gives most corporations nightmares.
A Wired News article points out that
it's common practice for many corporations to filter out
weblogs using many of the same tools used to eliminate email
spam and access to entertainment sites.
But of potentially greater concern to
companies than someone sneaking a peak at their favorite
time-wasters online is the tendency of people to post comments
on weblogs that may reveal corporate secrets that would pose
both competitive and compliance nightmares.
Today's corporations are publishing
entities more than ever, with both legal and regulatory
interfaces to the public as well as sales and marketing front
ends via Web sites and other collateral that reaches many
audiences.
Blog
Filtering
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| Blogs, Podcasting and RSS Feeds
Luncheon |
10/31/2005 | |
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The Virginia Piedmont Technology Council (VPTC)
will host a speakers luncheon at the Omni Hotel indowntown
Charlottesville on November 17th at 11:30 a.m.
The VPTC
luncheon will focus on how Blogs, Podcasting and RSS Feeds are
Changing Business Communications. A panel of experts will
define and discuss exactly what these new tools are, how they
are changing the way companies interact with their customers,
and present some fascinating scenarios describing what's
happening in the Blogosphere right now.
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| N.J. Students Ordered to Take Down
Blogs |
10/28/2005 | |
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A Roman Catholic high school has ordered its
students to remove personal blogs from the Internet in the
name of protecting them from cyberpredators.
Students at Pope John XXIII Regional
High School in Sparta appear to be heeding a directive from
the principal, the Rev. Kieran McHugh, to remove personal
postings about the school or themselves from Web sites like
myspace.com or xanga.com, even if they were posted from the
students' home computers.
Officials with
the Diocese of Paterson say the directive is a matter of
safety, not censorship. But constitutional experts say the
case raises interesting questions about the intersection of
free speech and voluntary agreements with private
institutions.
Complete Article
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| Create a Giant Ego Feed |
10/26/2005 | |
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A few weeks ago I published an article about Ego Searches that details how
to use RSS feeds to alert people to product or company
mentions. Well Talk Digger has taken it a step further by
allowing users to create a Super Ego
Feed that merges the results of ego
searches.
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| Blogging Enterprise Conference |
10/26/2005 | |
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The Blogging Enterprise is a one-day
conference that will explore blogging, podcasting and video
podcasting and their potential benefits and value in building
brands, educating prospects, making sales and cultivating
customer loyalty. Attendees will depart with new ideas and a
better sense for how to implement this new technology
successfully...
The conference will be held in Austin,
Texas on November 2.
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RSS Spider looks for RSS feeds. Feed Seeker
Bot (FSB) is RSS-Spider's home page crawling robot. This bot
does not crawl pages other than your home page.
Well
the spider is looking for the RSS aware tags in the HEAD of
your home page. (for details on how to do this read step #4)
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| Maximum RSS Feed Exposure |
10/25/2005 | |
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Robin Good has updated the RSS Top 55. The RSSTop55 Premium, Maximum ExpoRSSure, is a
60-page mini-guide that complements and augments the freely
accessible public RSSTop55. The publication is designed to
assist individuals with their RSS feed
promotion.
Another alternative is the RSS submission list on RSS
Specifications.
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| FTC Tackling Fake Blogs? |
10/24/2005 | |
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The consumer advocacy group Commercial Alert has
asked the FTC to investigate "stealth" marketing campaigns,
where companies create and maintain blogs that appear to be
from ordinary people but are in fact created by Corporate
Marketing Depts for the purpose of selling products, among
other tactics. |
| Small Company Claiming XML Infringes on
Their Patent |
10/24/2005 | |
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Sounds like a complete fishing expedition to me.
CNet points out that XML is progression of the SGML standard
which has been around since the
80's.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Scientigo owns
two patents covering the transfer of "data in neutral forms."
These patents, one of which was applied for in 1997, are
infringed upon by the data-formatting standard XML, Scientigo
executives assert.
Scientigo intends to
"monetize" this intellectual property, Scientigo CEO Doyal
Bryant said this week.
Complete Article on
CNet
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| Pheedo Has Integrated Ads |
10/24/2005 | |
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Blog and RSS feed advertising network Pheedo has
begun testing a program to make it easier for advertisers to
create integrated, multi-channel campaigns across blogs, Web
feeds and podcasts.
"If your ad message is only in one
of these channels, there's a chance it will be missed by part
of the customer base," Bill Flitter, Pheedo's founder and CMO,
told ClickZ News. "We're tying the channels together for the
advertisers to make sure the consumers will get the message in
their preferred way."
Pheedo has been running
integrated campaigns for a handful of advertisers since June
on a less formal basis, but are now building a turn-key
program, which should be ready to launch by the end of the
year. The RSS analytics and ad server and blog ad network are
already in place. To complete the offering, Pheedo is
currently developing technology around podcast ad serving and
building out its podcast network.
Complete Article
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| State of the Splogosphere |
10/19/2005 | |
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Randy has a great piece on the "brokeness" of RSS search. The bulk of the larger RSS search
engines are so cluttered with spam and non-sensical posts that
they have been rendered virtually useless.
In my
opinion, some of the smaller RSS search engines that manually approve
listings do a better job. The downside of course is that as
RSS grows its not practical for a search engines to manually
approve submissions. Looks like RSS Search is due for a
"Florida" update ;-)
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| Verisign Aquired Moreover for 30
Million |
10/19/2005 | |
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Internet services company VeriSign Inc. said
Monday it has acquired news aggregator Moreover Technologies
Inc. for $30 million in cash to bolster its position as an
organizer and gatekeeper of information flowing across the
Web.
Moreover, a closely held San Francisco-based
company, gathers and filters online news and blogs, then
automatically parcels the information in a headline-like
format, also known as RSS feeds, to corporate customers, such
as Microsoft Corp.'s MyMSN.
Complete
Article
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| New Breed of RSS Spam :-( |
10/17/2005 | |
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I spotted a whole new breed of RSS spam that is
particularly worrisome. It appears that "sploggers" are taking
legitimate RSS feeds and imbedding links using keyword phrases
in the RSS feed's item description. It appears to be an
automated script but there is some intelligence to how this is
done because the posts are often still "sensical". The postst
gives the appears that the original RSS feed creator is
recommending the linked resources, which they are not. It is
bad enough to have content "borrowed" on a regular basis
without appropriate credits, its even more disturbing to have
content modified in such a disturbing way.
In the long
wrong, if there is wide spread adoption of this tactic, it
could harm the credibility of bloggers.
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| New Beta Version of RSS Tool for
Mac |
10/13/2005 | |
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NotePage, Inc. has released a beta version of FeedForAll Mac. The new
version includes full iTunes support as well as other RSS 2.0
extensions. A free beta download is available.
FeedForAll Mac is a convenient easy to use tool for
editing and creating RSS feeds on a
Mac.
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| Meta Search Powered by RSS |
10/13/2005 | |
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Chris Pirillo released Gada.be a meta
search designed for mobile devices.
The first
metasearch engine to be powered by the efficient fuel of RSS
technology, Gada.be, went live on Monday.
Gada.be strips away the multiple layers
necessary to search, which is particularly painful for those
attempting to visit a Web site over a mobile
device.
Instead of plugging in a URL for
a search engine, then visiting each page in search results,
visitors can merely type in their search term as a subdomain
with "gada.be" at the end.
The real benefit
to gada.be is that the results are available via OPML and can
be imported into a reader for future monitoring. In many ways
the service automates ego searches detailed in a recent
article.
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| Google Has Their Hand in the Reader
Market |
10/11/2005 | |
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Google launched a beta release of the Google
Reader, an RSS reader. The new service works with a Google
account, and comes complete with OPML importation feature and
folders.
My take, Google should focus on search and
leave the reader market to those already fighting for market
share. |
| AOL Buying Blogging? |
10/11/2005 | |
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America Online has agreed to acquire Weblogs
Inc, a network of product and trade blogs including the
popular gadget-oriented Engadget and the automotive Autoblog.
Financial details of the transaction were not
disclosed, but some reports suggest a sale price of
$25m.
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| Users Don't Realize They Are Using
RSS |
10/11/2005 | |
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A recent study showed that 27% of RSS users were
unaware that they were using RSS. This study of course does
not involve casual web surfers who are viewing webpages that
are displayed using RSS feeds... were that number included it
might reach dare I say 100%? |
| Rumor About NewsGator Confirmed |
10/05/2005 | |
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RSS platform company NewsGator Technologies has
acquired NetNewsWire, creator of a popular RSS reader for Mac
OS X.
NewsGator already owns RSS aggregators on
Outlook, Windows and Windows Media Center, as well as a Web
service. The addition of NetNewsWire effectively rounds out
the company's offerings, significantly extending its
synchronization capability.
Complete Article on NewsGator
Acquisition
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| Rumors About NewsGator |
10/05/2005 | |
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Om Malik reports a rumor that NewsGator is
buying NetNewsWire. NetNewsWire is a popular RSS aggregator on
the Macintosh.
Complete Article
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