blago.telexer

A very big year for RSS and syndication technologies

Hanneke — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:16:18 +0000

Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb calls 2009 a very big year for RSS in a New York Times top ten overview. The list is dominated by social media conversation applications, with one dedicated RSS reader, and one breaking news service. But what unites all of these services is their focus on real-time delivery: for me, Pubsubhubbub [...]

New CNN mobile news app: future of online news is in paid applications?

Hanneke — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:57:17 +0000

I doubt if the future of online news is in single-source, paid-for content, but CNN, with their new app for iPhone, certainly shows that paid applications could be the way to go - they combine the features you actually might want in a news app, and the end result is a well-designed and usable app to boot.

Follow the Leader by RSS Reader

Hanneke — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:08:26 +0000

Over the span of a few hours, the New York Times changed its leading article headline about five times today. I noticed, because Telexer kept notifying me. It's interesting to see the process of a headline (and article) taking shape: going from sloppy to somewhat decent, all the headlines add to the story.

Update: AirBadge clicktracker plugin 1.1

Hanneke — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:14:54 +0000

The values that had to be hard-coded into the source are now manageable from the Settings page. Also, the tag used to place the badge on the page no longer needs to contain urls and id's.

Linkdump: free vs fee, and the experience of trial software

Hanneke — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:10:18 +0000

A number of articles on the topic of fee vs free, worth a read.