Tag: RSSFEEDS

Digg's unpopular version 4 redesign last summer has put a big damper on the site's traffic, but the Digg team has come around and started to make changes that are helping to bring users back. The latest smart move: banning RSS feed submissions. No longer can every single post from a site be auto-submitted to Digg via RSS. According to Mashable, Digg's product manager, Mike Cieri, just informed ...

We're back with more of your questions, and more of our excellent answers. This week, with the high-profile Gawker Media hack, we've been innundated with commenters asking how to change their Download Squad password. Now, it's not the easiest thing in the world, and yes, we know our commenting system isn't the best in the world (and we know there are still a few 'Easter eggs' from the Switched ...

If you're loving Twitter's new lists feature, but you're finding yourself a bit overwhelmed by following so many new people, there might be a better way to try out a list. One Twitter user has put together a list-to-RSS script. All you have to do is pop a list's URL into the site and drop the resulting feed URL into your reader. This way, you don't have to check the list on the web, and you don't ...

There are certainly plenty of blog directories and Digg type websites that tell you what the most popular or "best" news of the day is. Regator wants to join the fray. Regator is a combination of a lot of different methods of news aggregation. Actual people do a lot of the work, reading through and finding blog posts they think are interesting to read. Those posts are sorted into almost 500 ...

There has been a lot of talk about Yahoo!'s new Pipes service, and for good reason. Pipes allows you to mix and match RSS feeds and make something that suits a very specific purpose. But as much as Pipes was made for the non-developers out there, the barrier to entry is still a tad high for some of us. What about the rest of us that need to massage an RSS feed a little bit, but for whom Pipes is ...

Ugh. I'm buried under unread RSS feeds. Right now if I look down at Google Reader Notifier (a Firefox Add-In), I see that I've got 1927 unread items in my subscriptions. I thought I was being responsible; I've got my feeds split up into logical categories, including one called "Now", which is the stuff I told myself I would always stay current on. Google Reader won't tell me exactly how many ...

Ask.com has started including official blog feeds in their search results when you search for popular brands or web site names. The feed listing displays the last three or four posts on the website's official blog at the top of the results page, along with a link to the blog itself. The feed even appears above the sponsored listings. When you search Download Squad, for example, you'll see our ...

While we're on the subject of mobile RSS readers... Bloglines announced yesterday that its Bloglines Mobile service now features integrated Skweezer technology. What's Skweezer, you ask? Well, on its own, it's a free, platform-independent web service that optimizes page content for mobile devices. The benefit of Skweezer technology being added to Bloglines is that you won't have to specifically ...

Have you ever tried to click on the "Add to My Yahoo!" button while in Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Search results pages or some other Y! property only have have it say the feed is invalid? That's a big WTF moment for me that has happened time and time again. Very frustrating. I recently installed the new Firefox 2.0 beta 1 release and noticed it can subscribe "web feeds" (aka RSS feeds) to your RSS reader ...

There's no doubt that Dave Winer is a pioneer of our time, and that those of us in the weblogging industry owe him a heartfelt thank-you and pat on the back for developing Really Simple Syndication feeds, known as RSS for short. But as the self-proclaimed Rodney Dangerfield of the software industry, Winer's whining can get really tiresome really quickly. What's his problem? Really, simply, it ...