Archive for the ‘Feeds’ Category
Check this out: Podcasting Professionals
I'm attending the WordPress DK meetup 2.3 right now, where good friend Karin Høgh is introducing online feed reader Podcasting Professionals.
Looks interesting…
Related postsTags: Feeds, OPML, Podcasting, RSS
Check out the Bloglines beta
I use the online feed reader Bloglines to manage and view my various feeds.
Today, when I looked at referrers to this blog and came across beta.bloglines.com.
As you may have guessed it's a beta version of the upcoming Bloglines — and so far I think it looks good.
The first thing you notice, is that you can now generate your own frontpage, based on which of your feeds you drag to the frontpage. Also, I haven't tested this yet, you should be able to drag feeds into and out of folders.
Well, give it a try and see what you think :-)
Tags: Blogs, Feeds, Online applications, Social web
No more del.icio.us posts
I've decided to post no my del.icio.us-posts to my blog. Here are the reasons:
- Right now it just keeps failing and no posts get through. I have no idea what happened
- I bookmark a lot of stuff that isn't new media and/or it related and that messes up this blog
- Some of the bookmarks are Danish which makes no sense to my international readers
So, if you still want to follow my bookmarks go to del.icio.us/larskjensen or use this feed url to stay updated on my bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/rss/larskjensen
Related postsTags: About this blog, del.icio.us, Feeds, RSS
Quite a lot of unread posts…
Guess what I'm gonna be doing the next 132 hours?
Microsoft replies on RSS patent story
Via Geek News Central I found out, that Microsoft actually has replied to the story, posts and rumours on the RSS reader patent.
Read Microsoft's Sean Lyndersay's post on it. He's "Program Manager Lead, RSS" at Microsoft.
He doesn't however, in my view, really tell us why they have applied for the patent. The closest he gets to that are in these two paragraphs:
First, these patents describe specific ways to improve the RSS end-user and developer experience (which we believe are valuable and innovative contributions) — they do not constitute a claim that Microsoft invented RSS.
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Finally, as a number of commenters have noted, we are far from the only company to apply for patent protection in this space. Other companies, including Apple and Google, have apparently also applied for patents. Applying for a patent on your innovation is common industry practice, and one which, by incenting and protecting the companies and people involved, encourages everyone to contribute to the community.
But read it and decide for yourself, what you think and/or make of it.
However, I still don't get why Microsoft feel that they want to patent it. There are loads of various RSS readers out there…?
Update 1: And of course a merry Christmas to all of you :D
Related postsTags: Feeds, Microsoft, Patents, RSS
A better notifier for Bloglines?
As any other, I've signed up to be updated via RSS at Bloglines.
But since I don't want to keep a browser window with Bloglines open all the time, I decided to download their notifier.
But how awful. The notifier really doesn't do anything but tell me, when I have unread posts.
I think that the idea of an online way of handling feeds is brilliant, but I want more control without having to visit the site! Therefore I would like to be able to see the various feeds in my notifier, mark them as read, add new feeds and so on.
Everything in the background would still be happening online, but I would be able to control it via my software notifier. The Gmail hack GmailerXP has some of the features I'm looking for in a feed notifier.
That's what I would like from Bloglines to make it all complete :)
Related postsTags: Feeds, Web 2.0, Web applications