RSS - Really Simple Syndication

Scripting News: What I mean by RSS

2011-11-10T09:51:00.000-08:00

"What I mean by RSS
By Dave Winer on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 1:04 PM.
I can't tell anyone how to use the term RSS, but I can tell you how I use it.

RSS is a family of syndication formats that traces its roots far back in the history of computer science. The most widely used version of RSS is 2.0. I wrote the spec for that version, created software that read and wrote it, and helped content providers, notably the NY Times, get online with it.

We also adapted RSS to transport what I thought of as "audio blog posts." This became podcasting.

There are lots of different kinds of software that produce RSS and consume it. Each of them has its own name. But they are not RSS. They are applications that do stuff with RSS.

Infonary - News for Those in a Hurry

2011-09-05T14:40:00.000-07:00

"Are you busy, so much so, that you don’t even get time to read newspapers or watch news on TV? Do you leave your house early in the morning for work and wished that your newspaper boy would come earlier? If that’s the case, then your “wish” has been fulfilled. Infonary.com is here for all you workaholics out there. Get all the latest news, videos, extracts, images and much more from leading newspapers and TV news channels, all at one place.

Infonary.com is a web site launched exclusively for such users. It aims at providing precise and latest news from all the leading newspapers and TV news channels, all on one page. Different categories have been defined for various sections like Sports, Business, Education, Health etc. So you can find the news on the topics of your choice easily."

ChimpFeedr RSS Feed Aggregator - Feed the Chimp

2011-08-06T21:03:00.000-07:00

"Enter a bunch of RSS feeds into ChimpFeedr, and we'll mash 'em up into one master RSS feed. Then, maybe you can use that master feed for your awesome RSS-to-email campaigns!"

Mashing Feeds.

Super Google Reader Converts All Partial RSS Feeds into Full Feeds

2011-04-20T16:24:00.000-07:00

"Chrome: If you do most of your reading in Google Reader, you probably find truncated RSS feeds—that is, feeds that only give you the first paragraph of a post—annoying. Convert them all into full feeds with one simple Chrome extension."

A solution for partial fees.

RSS:

2011-04-10T18:18:00.000-07:00

"In my mind, the three top Internet application companies are Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, in no special order.

Of the three Yahoo and Microsoft are aggressively moving forward in deploying RSS, Yahoo more than all three, and Google is doing absolutely nothing, at least nothing that's visible."

RSS Icon Brings Quick RSS Access Back to Firefox's Address Bar

2011-03-21T09:29:00.000-07:00

"Firefox 4: If you're a big fan of RSS, you've probably noticed that Firefox 4 did away with the handy RSS address bar icon that gave you quick access to all RSS feeds on a page. This extension brings it back."

A free download for Firefox 4.

What is all the RSS about? | Pro Bono Australia

2011-03-17T01:37:00.000-07:00

"The amount of content being distributed via the internet can be daunting for organisations. Many have limited budgets, so it is important to have tools that can allow spending time on important activities, such as fundraising. However, keeping track of information pertinent to the organisation brand, and who is saying what, can be time consuming. Being current with information need not be a hard task. There are simple tools, often free, that can make capturing information pertinent to your organisation fairly simple. That is where RSS feeds and feed readers are useful. They offer speed of delivery, update your current topics of choice, keep your identity private, are flexible and do not use up bandwidth."

A good perspective on RSS for subscribers.

Announcing NEW RSS to Email Tool: Monetize Your RSS Feed | RevResponse

2011-02-15T13:32:00.000-08:00

"If you have an RSS feed, you can make money and provide added value to your users with the RSS to Email tool from RevResponse.
In just 5 easy steps, RevResponse will customize a newsletter for you, monetize it for you, and help you to build your subscriber list."

Something to look at and evaluate.

Publish RSS News Feeds with ENFEEDIA

2011-01-07T16:22:00.000-08:00

"Please take a look at Enfeedia.com. It's a free online service; no software to download. In addition to the basic features of RSS, it offers advanced features consistent with RSS specifications, including easy embedding of video and images (including flickr images consistent with their terms of service), PayPal buttons, Google search tool, and more. Multiple authoring modes are provided for collaborative posting of items onto the same feed including optional moderation of postings by the feed owner."

A complete online RSS feed publishing service.

RSSPhere - Add live news to your website

2010-10-02T15:50:00.000-07:00

"Create RSS Template
Attach your favorite RSS resources
Customize the Look of Your RSS Feed
Paste the RSS Code into Your Webpages"

Another product / service to customize and add content to your webpage using RSS.

PHP RSS Parsers

2010-09-19T00:30:00.000-07:00

"PHP RSS Parsers are what many PHP developers looking for these days as every web application or website has some RSS input or output.

RSS parsers make the use of RSS simpler as they have overcame the known RSS parsing difficulties.

WebResourcesDepot have collected the most popular free RSS Parsers coded with PHP"

A good list of parsers. Check the comments for more.

Times brings newspaper experience to RSS for iPad

2010-08-10T14:38:00.000-07:00

"Times for iPad brings a newspaper aesthetic to the 21st century experience of reading news with RSS feeds. Instead of a tried and tested list of feeds and folders on the left and headlines on the right, Times lays out stories and photos in columns more akin to a newspaper, with separate, customizable topic pages like technology, arts & entertainment, sports, and whatever else you want."

Some good news about innovation in how RSS feeds are read and presented.

RSS blog - RSS Books

2010-07-31T16:16:00.000-07:00

"RSS Books - Here are some current books on RSS."

A list of nine books on RSS.

AdSense for Feeds and FeedBurner Blog: Additions and Attractions for Our Feeds-by-Email Service

2010-04-24T18:01:00.000-07:00

"FeedBurner's email service began delivering updates in April, 2006. The launch was just weeks after scientists determined email and feeds could be safely combined in a laboratory setting."

FeedBurner announces new features.

Dave Winer on the terminology of RSS « Anne Helmond

2010-04-24T15:41:00.000-07:00

"This post is the first in a short series exploring my hypothesis of RSS as the technological foundation of Web 2.0 for my PhD research. I have had the honor of talking with Dave Winer about my research and to pose him some questions. I would like to thank him for his time, thoughts and provoking new ideas for my dissertation."

FeedRank - RSSMicro Search

2010-03-06T21:17:00.000-08:00

"FeedRank is a numeric ranking system for RSS feeds and is generated based on a content analysis algorithm developed exclusively by RSSMicro.
FeedRank measures the quality of RSS feeds including published articles and posts. In order to generate the FeedRank, a customized algorithm checks various areas including but not limited to traffic data and a newly developed concept called Feed Delta."

RSSBus Server for Google App Engine

2010-03-06T21:05:00.000-08:00

"Now you can create and deploy RSSBus Simple Services on the Google Cloud! RSSBus for Google App Engine is a pure Java implementation of RSSBus Server, designed exclusively for deployment to Google’s web infrastructure."

Facebook Turns Six, Gets Billing as Top News Reader - Web Services Web 20 and SOA from eWeek

2010-02-04T13:49:00.000-08:00

"Facebook, which turned six years old today and has some 400 million users, is a major player in the way people consume news all around the world, according to conclusions from ReadWriteWeb and HitWise."

Facebook is now a major RSS Feed Reader.

RSS to Email Gateway - Reblinks

2010-01-05T13:31:00.000-08:00

RSS to Email Gateway - Reblinks

MyFeedSync for MySpace | Sean Percival's Blog

2009-11-12T11:46:00.000-08:00

"As I always say, there is better living through syndication.

So with that in mind, I’m happy to introduce MyFeedSync for MySpace. Just like the recently launched Twitter Sync, this service allows you to pipe in any RSS feed directly into your MySpace activity stream."

RSS is the pipeline that links up all the various social media sites.

rssCloud Update « Blog « WordPress.com

2009-11-05T12:02:00.000-08:00

"Two months ago we turned on support for rssCloud on WordPress.com. Today we’re announcing some improvements."

More enhancements to the "real time web".

ToRSS: Turn Email To RSS Feed

2009-11-04T12:09:00.000-08:00

"ToRSS is a new online service that converts incoming email to RSS feed and allows you to read messages on your feedreader."

feed your blog to twitter

2009-10-20T18:15:00.000-07:00

"Twitterfeed has grown pretty fast since its early side project days. There are now 350,000 publishers from the White House to CNN to John Cleese pumping out almost 600,000 feeds and generating around 5,500,000 clicks to your sites every day."

Information on RSS, TwitterFeed, PubSubHubBub, RSS Cloud, and Google Analytics.

Comparing PubSubHubbub and rssCloud - The RSS Blog

2009-10-01T18:56:00.000-07:00

"I thought I'd prepare a blog entry describing the differences between PubSubHubbub and rssCloud."

Thoughtful and complete comparison of the two RSS publish / subscribe systems - PubSubHubbub and rssCloud.

The Story of PubSubHubbub and rssCloud - The RSS Blog

2009-09-24T13:16:00.000-07:00

"RSS is great. That said, it isn't real-time. With the advent of Twitter, people are now beginning to wonder why RSS needs to poll every hour. Why can't we have the immediacy of Twitter in RSS. Time for a history lesson."

This is the best article I have seen on the issue of immediacy of RSS. It is excellent.