A favorite shareware program of mine that adds all kinds of information to your iPod has raised the number of RSS feed items it can handle. Pod2Go, which has been a Mac product Continue reading
Category Archives: RSS Gossip
Windows Live improves RSS reading
Microsoft’s Windows Live has just improved its RSS feed reading feature and supposedly now lets you import your OPML files. But the biggest news is that a new toolbar is due out Continue reading
eBay expands RSS feeds to searches
eBay has recently added RSS feeds to its search results, allowing users to track their favorite auction items in their news readers. Given that most RSS readers only check for Continue reading
Why It’s Best Avoid Reciprocal Linking These Days
Reciprocal linking is a kind of ‘symbiotic relationship’ between two complementary websites. Each site has a hyperlink pointing to the other. The idea behind this is to elevate the Continue reading
RSS vs Email: Its Not An Either-Or Question
If you’ve been getting caught up in all this talk of RSS versus email, its time to stop wondering. Continue reading
If an RSS feed is the Yahoo backdoor, is a Blog Google’s?
Though the answer is in a book I wrote this July, the question is still asked of me repeatedly. Why does it work for some sites and not others? And how come some blogs Continue reading
RSS PIONEERS SET OFF GOLD RUSH
The nature of cyberspace is changing fast with the rush now on to set up rss news feeds. Every gram of news and current affairs is gleaned from the four corners of the globe so Continue reading
RSS: The New Playground
Online consumer spending in the month of November 2004 alone grew by 19%, that equals $8.8billion. Since 2002 online spending increased by 62%. Continue reading
RSS is Not Only for Blogs
Contrary to popular opinion, RSS is not only good for delivering content from your blog, although blogs are what made RSS so popular. Continue reading
Are You Thinking Of Republishing RSS Feeds?
There is lively debate about the republishing of RSS feeds on other sites. The argument surrounds the use of RSS feeds from the feed publisher being used in an unfair manner. Continue reading
Do Marketers Really Need RSS?
The recent Forrester Research study, which claims that only 2% of online households in North America use RSS, took the internet marketing world by storm. Does this data really Continue reading
RSS Support in New Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Corp. says that the next version of its Windows operating system will have built-in support for RSS, an increasingly popular way to get news and other information Continue reading
The Copyright Debate and RSS
RSS is commonly defined as really simple syndication. So, this means that any material contained in a feed is available for syndication, right? Well no, not exactly. It means that Continue reading
RSS Directory Submission: The Key to Blog Promotion
According to Technorati, there are over 15 million blogs as of July 2005. And during July, an average of 80,000 new blogs were created each day. If you own a blog, how are you Continue reading
A Challenge to the RSS Industry: RSS Stats Unacceptable
Forrester Research released the final “The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2005″ report on August 2nd, which claims that only 2% of Americans online Continue reading
Feed The World’s Press With RSS
Microsoft stands accused of usurping an emerging web application, and information professionals are advised to sit up and take notice. Not so much of the non-story itself, Continue reading