Tag: FEEDS

Just because you subscribe to an RSS feed doesn't mean you want to read every single thing in that feed. What if you read Download Squad just for Brad Linder's posts, or you're only interested in posts about Google? FeedScrub might be what you're looking for. It lets you vote each of your RSS articles up or down, training it to only display the stuff you care about. You then subscribe to the ...

There's so much good content on the web that even RSS power-users can feel like they're missing something. If you're looking for something fresh to read, you might want to give SuggestRSS a try. It analyzes your feeds and makes recommendations based on data from the hundreds of other people in its database, along with an estimate of the chance that you'll like each suggestion. SuggestRSS uses a ...

If you maintain a blog, there's a pretty good chance you're addicted to statistics. Whether you typically get 5 page views a day or 5 million, there's something irresistible about clicking the refresh button on any site that will tell you how many hits you've received, how many RSS subscribers you have, and how they're interacting with your site. Feed Analysis is a nifty site that lets you take ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/02/20/feedjournal-kill-a-tree-and-print-your-rss-feeds-like-a-newspap/"; Ever wish you could print out your RSS feeds and read them like a newspaper? FeedJournal is a new service that lets you convert RSS feeds into printable PDF files. The layout is very newspaper-like. You can choose the number of columns, and whether or not your paper will ...

If you are looking for news items based on your interests, you might enjoy Tiinker. Tiinker allows you to rate news items from feeds and automatically finds more items based on what you liked and didn't like. It works like this: as you go through news items and vote on them, Tiinker goes about learning what kind of news you would like more of. Give a post on technology a thumbs up and Tiinker will ...

At first, it sounds like a texting nightmare from hell, but RSS via SMS has a place in our world through Web-Alerts, a small web experiment that may get lost in the vast internet desert that is web 2.0 failures. The service sends you a text message for every update to a chosen site's RSS feed. The service is simple and easy to use. When you first visit the site, it'll ask your to enter a web ...

We heavily rely on RSS for easily managing our online resources. Thats why its great to learn about sources that can help us create feeds without any effort to keep things in order and manageable. Especially when websites might not have RSS feeds. Feedmarklet is a way to set up your own RSS feed, and add content to it via a bookmarklet. It's as easy as creating the bookmarklet in your browser, ...

Bloglines has just packed a bunch of new features into its online news feed searching, subscribing to and reading service, and it all begins with a start page. Bloglines headlines its new feature developments with a personalized start page. This is the page that brings everything together in a quick and easy view with an AJAX interface. There is nothing like starting feed reading off with a view ...

Life without feeds would be one of sifting through thousands of endless stories and visiting website after website for content. Thanks to RSS, our lives have been ever so simplified. OPML has been the typical approach to combining all RSS feeds into a single file that can be exported and imported into any feed reader. Then along comes RSS Mixer. This online tool lets users combine all favorite ...

Want the top news you're interested in without opening up a browser. Well there is a way to do it in just six steps! Toshibi over at Instructables, (a place where you can share with others what you make, and teach them how to make it) has figured out how to turn his desktop into a constantly updating RSS bulletin board. Steps include: Creating an HTML document with all the appropriate rows and ...

Rssfwd is a web-service based tool which sends RSS feeds to your email, if that's your thing. Working people are getting highly saturated with mountains of email, and many still prefer it to the wilds of web 2.0 newness. Rssfwd caters to this subset of people, making email an interesting and dynamic information tool by coupling the older technology with the newer RSS idea. While it wouldn't be ...

Online applications are great, but what happens when you can't get a connection to the internet? Whether it is because you are on an airplane, or in the middle of nowhere camping, and have to get certain emails, calendar items, or files, you are quite possibly out of luck. Its sure a bummer, and one of the reasons why so many people are hesitant about using online applications for their most ...

How do you keep up to date with information from your favorite news sources when on the go? You can't exactly stop at every wireless signal to power your laptop on and connect; it just isn't all that productive. Maybe that's why Mobispine started up. Mobispine is a feed browser that helps you stay on top of your feeds directly from your phone. To get started, users register and will get a link via ...

If Twitter and all its buzz in the web community can be considered its own growing world of sorts, then Leo Laporte - one of the service's foremost users according to Twitterholic - just sent ripples through its oceans by announcing his decision to move to Jaiku, a similar service that seems to have longer legs and quite a few more features. Since this was the first we've heard about Jaiku, we ...

We're becoming big fans of Tumblr here at DLS headquarters, and the 'blogging scrapbook' service just introduced a new feed importing feature that makes it an even more appealing tool. A new option in the settings area allows users to add multiple feeds from their other blogs, with the ability to aggregate your other content as regular posts, photos (say, from a Flickr feed) or mere referential ...