Archives for the 'rss' Category
Twitter, Tumblr, and Me
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Prologue About three and a half years ago I wrote a post entitled Feed Splicing, Shell Scripts, and the Internet, giving voice to my enthusiasm for the ease with which I could combine the two shiny new toys I had just started playing with: del.icio.us and FeedBurner. In that post I noted that: By taking [...]
Let’s Call it a Movement
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Ilya Grigorik adds his voice to a still (relatively) small but growing chorus with his post Reinventing RSS Readers. While Dave Winer can reasonably claim that he’s been pushing this idea for years, more and more people are finally realizing that they need to free themselves from the tyranny of the RSS <channel> and move [...]
Take Me To The River
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Scoble now “[doesn't] read separate feeds anymore. I just read everything in one long continuous scrolling Window.” Yep. Makes life easier when you consume the aggregate product rather than the individual feeds, doesn’t it? In Scoble’s case it seems that Google’s feed reader kicked him off the bank and into the river of news; I’m [...]
Newsgator back, probably all drunk by now…
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Greg Reinacker has the first cut post-mortem on today’s Newsgator outage available, so you should head over there and read it if you want the real information. From my perspective, the timeline ran something like this: Monday 5:00pm MST Some ugly stuff starts happening in a dark corner. Monday 10:00pm MST Newsgator folks experience that [...]
RSS Withdrawal: Minute 49
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
…or… my thoughts are with you, Newsgator guys NetNewsWire wasn’t syncing when I got up this morning. “Eh, it’s a beta, I’ll dig around a little this evening and see if I can figure out what’s going on.” Got to the office. FeedDemon wasn’t syncing. “Hmmm…this isn’t good. This isn’t good at all.” So okay, [...]
It’s a start…
Tuesday, June 8th, 2004
Real Simple Shopping offers individually customized RSS feeds of advertiser information. Some parts of it still seem a bit rough: you can only subscribe based upon advertiser (even though you can search ads by category), and it’s unclear whether they’re actually doing any targeting based on the demo information that you provide during registration. Solid [...]
