Category: RSS

Twitter takes a step closer to RSS

Posted by: Douglas MacMillan on September 02

As recently as one year ago, I relied primarily on RSS feeds for news updates. On my personalized Google Reader account, I received round-the-clock headlines from about 60 of my…

Techmeme brings back colleague… briefly

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 16

I was very happy to look at Techmeme this morning and see a BusinessWeek story by Steve Rosenbush. He’s a good friend and colleague who left last year and got…

Pheedo’s RSS Powered Ads

Posted by: Heather Green on February 13

Pheedo this week is announcing a pretty innovative development: RSS feed-powered ads. Basically the idea is about siphoning content or ads copy from any RSS feed and distributing it across…

Troubles with MyYahoo

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 11

I’m having trouble with MyYahoo, which has been my aggregator for three years. First, it’s slow to pick up feeds. I’ve posted twice this morning, and neither one has yet…

RSS And Podcasting Turns Castrol Motor Oil Into a Media Co.

Posted by: Heather Green on April 21

How Castrol Motor Oil used podcasting and RSS to transform itself from an advertiser into a media company.

Some Lessons on RSS Ads from Feedburner

Posted by: Heather Green on February 11

Feedburner CEO talks about some of the lessons the RSS service is learning about which ads works-and dont work-within RSS feeds.

Business communications: RSS vs. E-mail

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 23

A discussion of RSS vs e-mail for business communications.

All hands to contribute to story on RSS and Atom

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 20

Jon Garfunkel asks for help on story on RSS and Atom

RSS Reader Recommendation?

Posted by: Heather Green on January 06

Recommendations for RSS newsreaders?

RSS: The Tipping Point

Posted by: Heather Green on December 09

An RSS toilet paper printer? The tipping point?

RSS That Ad

Posted by: Heather Green on December 04

Target’s using RSS for its weekly sales ads. Know anyone else who is doing this?

Yahoo Plops RSS Into E-mail

Posted by: Heather Green on November 30

Yahoo is plopping RSS right into the new email service that it’s testing, expanding yet again the variety of RSS tools it offers to consumers.

Taming the feed monster

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 09

A promising new blog called Performancing offers all kinds of blogging advice. In one post, Nick Wilson provides tips on how to keep RSS feeds from getting out of hand….

We Got Buttons

Posted by: Heather Green on October 27

Our blog has RSS subscription buttons finally but if there are any we’re missing, let us know.

MyYahoo and new RSS Tools

Posted by: Heather Green on October 24

Yahoo planning to integrate Media RSS into My Yahoo site.

A serialized book to the phone? Try poems

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 20

A technology to deliver novels to cell phones? Try poems instead.

Just What the RSS Doctor Ordered

Posted by: Heather Green on October 19

With all the head scratching that’s going on about how to get the notion of RSS across to a wider audience, Steve Rubel is onto something with his list of 10 uses for RSS.

A new metaphor for RSS? How about TiVo?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 19

A new metaphor for RSS? Try Tivo

Google introduces RSS reader

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 07

Rob Hof tries out Google’s new RSS reader

Add What to What and Get What?

Posted by: Heather Green on September 20

On del.icio.us and torrents.

Confused in New York About RSS

Posted by: Heather Green on August 04

Looking for insight on RSS and advertising.

Technorati’s Sifry says RSS will succeed by disappearing

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 19

Technorati’s Sifry says that RSS will gain a broad audience by disappearing

The Evolution of RSS, According to Yahoo

Posted by: Heather Green on July 14

Yahoo RSS guru Scott Gatz discusses the evolution of RSS.

Venture plows into RSS

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 05

RSS is leading toward dramatic change, even if investment returns are uncertain.

RSS & Security

Posted by: Heather Green on June 29

Rather interesting article at Netcraft about security and RSS and the need to meld the two as more corporations adopt the technology. It’s all about beating spam and phishing and…

Media RSS Wars?

Posted by: Heather Green on June 29

Tristan Louis at TNL.net worries that we’re seeing the beginning of a fairly new battle around RSS.

Microsoft and RSS

Posted by: Heather Green on June 27

Microsoft’s announcement to embed an RSS reader into the Longhorn OS.

Bloglines indexing half a billion RSS feeds posts

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 08

Bloglines to announce that it has doubled its index of RSS feeds posts so far this year, to half a billion.

PubSub unveils new government search

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 01

PubSub unveils new search tool to provide news feeds on government officials

RSS and the future of the publishing model

Posted by: Heather Green on May 24

Infoworld exec Matt McAlister confronts a world where the site gets more RSS feed requests than its home page. But how many of those feeds are actually read?

RSS Consolidation

Posted by: Heather Green on May 19

Answers from Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher about consolidation and how he would achieve the goal of being the top blog search service.

Bloglines Questions?

Posted by: Heather Green on May 19

I know some people were interested in Steve’s notes from the conversation with Blogline’s CEO Mark Fletcher. I missed the meeting and was going to email Fletcher about consolidation among…

Bloglines CEO promises top blog search by summer

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 18

Bloglines ceo promises blog search to surpass Technorati by summer

How blogs threaten eBay

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 17

Bob Wyman discusses structured blogging, which could force eBay to change its business model.

Nooked sees RSS tracking customers

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 17

Nooked CEO predicts that publishers will offer special RSS feeds to subscribers—and use them to track behavior and distribute targeted ads