Archive for the ‘RSS’ Category

Too much information and not enough filters? Check out Mashable’s latest article, Slow Feed Movement: 7 Tools to Filter the RSS Flood, which suggests choosing from seven tools to focus the flow of information. Two which caught my eye were the Best of Friendfeed feature and TweetDeck, an Adobe Air desktop application.

Google Reader just rolled out a new feature in the form of a chart which provides RSS feed details about the number of subscribers, items posted, and time of day and day of the week each was post was published.

via Micro Persuasion

The Common Craft team has created a one-minute introduction to Google Reader in another of its “in Plain English” videos.

Christina Laun from the OEDb puts together the The Ultimate RSS Toolset: 100+ Online Apps and Resources. This annotated resource list is categorized into the following sections:

• Readers
• Personalized Homepages
• Browser Extensions
• Blog Tools and Plugins
• RSS Directories
• Mobile Tools
• RSS Email Tools
• Feed Validators
• RSS Feed Editors
• IM RSS Tools
• Miscellaneous Tools

Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb gives us Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader. He has some very interesting suggestions including using an RSS filter such as AideRSS to sort out and subscribe to only the most popular posts in each feed to save yourself time. Here are his 7 tips:

1. Oversubscribe
2. Try a River of News View
3. Use Multiple Services
4. Try Out a Desktop Reader
5. Tag Items to Share
6. Learn about OPML
7. Try Out Additional Services

Read/Write Web aggregates the four most recent posts from ten websites you may never have come across and presents them in an annotated guide to finding fantastic things. Here are their ten sites, click through to the original article to view the posts from each:

1. BoingBoing
2. Waxy Links
3. Neatorama
4. Laughing Squid
5. JoshSpear.com
6. Fresh Creation
7. PicoCool
8. Swiss Miss
9. NotCot
10. We Make Money Not Art

As an aside, it’s interesting to note their use of the AideRSS tool to link to the most recent popular posts for each blog.

MakeUseof.com has created a guide to some of the lesser-known ways to utilize RSS feeds including SendMeRSS which will forward any RSS feed to your email inbox, TwitterFeed which will forward several RSS feeds to a Twitter account, and Wigitize which will let you add RSS feeds to your website in a customizable widget. Check out the full article for more.

Erica Marie DeWolf of eMarketing & New Media pens Six Creative Uses for RSS and Using RSS Feeds to your Advantage in which she provides useful tips on how to make the most of RSS technology. Through these two articles DeWolf advises:

• Subscribe to a custom News RSS feed
• Develop an RSS Feed for your non-blog site
• Use eBay’s RSS option
• Watch for new music on iTunes
• Keep an eye on your personal brand - your name
• Subscribe to others’ del.icio.us bookmarks
• Subscribe to the blogs and websites you look at often
• Manage you and your company’s reputation
• Broadcast a feed of your blog or a keyword Blog Search on your website

via Micro Persuasion