Posts Tagged ‘feed’

How Fast Is Your Feed Reading?

RSS feed readers themselves as well as subscription trimming and keyboard shortcuts are great ways to get your news and information quickly and easily. But do you know how much time you're saving? Are you saving time at all? Analysis is a good thing. Matt Cornell has gone one better and timed his feed reading. He's posted his results on his website. On curious thing I noticed: When I'm timing myself… Continue reading

August 20 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: feed, rss | 1 comment»

Using Yahoo Pipes To Translate RSS Feeds

It's a simple idea but something that could beef up the content in your feed reader. This simple tutorial from Webware about taking an RSS feed from a website in another language to your own and using Yahoo Pipes to translate it into another feed. BabelFish wouldn't do it. (It gave me an entertaining error message, though: "Insane value.") I was initially encouraged when I used Google Translate, which did… Continue reading

June 22 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: feed, languages, rss | 1 comment»

120+ RSS Resources

Another list topping 100!? Have we the time? This is a great list from a great site, Mashable. A huge list of RSS-related resources. It covers mobile, on and offline RSS readers, feed to email converters, validators, plugins, stat programs, hacks and more. It's not a good list for beginners, which I think is important right now with RSS really gaining in popularity, but it's an excellent list to get… Continue reading

June 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: feed, rss | 3 comments»

10+ Powerful Sales Concepts For Blogging Success

Selling Subscriptions to Your Blog If you're giving away subscriptions for free, why is it so hard to get subscribers? Well, because there is a cost to subscribing, and the cost is in the form of people's most valuable currency, time. If you want more RSS subscribers to your blog, then you will need to sell those subscriptions. How do you do that? Simple. You use the same sales… Continue reading

May 30 2007 | By K. | Tagged: blogging, branding, feed, rss, sales, subscription | 10 comments»

Trim Your Google Reader Fat with Trends

If you're using Google Reader to manage your RSS feeds, a handy feature is Google Trends. This keeps track of your feed activity on a day to day basis. Trends keeps track of your most read feeds as well as what days and what times you read them. This becomes handy if you want to keep track of how your feeds are working for you.

Probably the most useful feature so… Continue reading

April 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: feed, google | 2 comments»

Vista’s Integrated RSS Support May Simplify RSS Usage

The new Microsoft Windows Vista will include integrated support for RSS. Microsoft says Vista will support RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0 (when released). Vista's integrated RSS support is designed to make subscribing to and managing feeds easier. This feature is likely to provide some interesting applications that may help increase productivity. Today RSS is primarily used for news sites, blogs, and increasingly for audio-based serialized content. But… Continue reading

January 16 2007 | By Rob | Tagged: feed, microsoft, rss, syndication, vista, windows | 2 comments»

Gmail + Google Reader = Cool

Integration is good. Mihai Parparita, frontend tech lead of Google Reader, goes ahead and releases a GreaseMonkey that integrates Google Reader with Gmail. Outcome is great, because you can read your feeds just like you read an email in Gmail. It is an unofficial feature, but the integration makes Reader part of Gmail already, which in my opinion that it fits there very well (Google, you don't have to launch another product… Continue reading

October 16 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: feed, gmail, software | 1 comment»