Why Do People Unsubscribe?
Whether you do email marketing, publish an RSS feed, or both, you will inevitably have customers that choose to unsubscribe from your communications. However, you may be able to limit the number of customers who do so. According to a recent report by ExactTarget, there are a variety of reasons why a person may unsubscribe. By understanding why customers unsubscribe from various communications, marketers can learn which marketing mistakes to avoid and keep their subscribers.

Why Do People Unsubscribe?

Star Wars RSS Reader
Checkout this Star Wars version of an RSS Reader.

How to Use Pinterest for Beginners
You have likely heard people obsess about Pinterest so you are curious about what it is and how to use it.

Pinterest is a highly visual virtual pinboard site that lets you pin or collect images from the Web. You create boards to help you categorize your images and add descriptions to remind you why you bookmarked them in the first place.

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Technical Diagnosis Cartoon

RSS for Business
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a new way to broadcast corporate news and structured information. RSS offers a quick, easy corporate communication channel. The RSS contents are published as a feed and the feed's content keep customers, partners and journalists abreast of corporate news and information. The RSS feeds are read using a tool referred to as a news aggregator, or an RSS reader. The aggregator periodically checks to see if the RSS feed has been updated. As the feed is updated, new information will automatically appear in the RSS reader.

While RSS was at one point only considered to be a means to deliver news headlines, RSS has quickly become a powerful medium to disseminate all kinds of information. As traditional marketers are attempting to rein in content delivery, measuring e-mail open rates, click-throughs and conversions, Internet users are fighting to gain control over the content they receive. Savvy marketers and business owners are using RSS as a way to improve corporate communication and increase their external exposure and brand appeal.

RSS For Business

RSS and Education
Academia has embraced RSS as a means to educate, but scrutinizing how educational institutions are using RSS feeds in their daily routines show RSS is utilized can vary across different industries.

RSS and Education

How Terror Can Breed Through Social Media
The days of would-be terrorists needing to travel to far-off camps to make contacts and learn how to build bombs is rapidly receding. Social media forums like Twitter and Facebook provide a ready made Rolodex of sources -- dig further online, mine those contacts further, gain admission to private chat forums and eventually you will find instructions for bomb making.

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Turn an Ebay Search into an RSS Feed
Have you ever been watching ebay to find that rare item, or just trying to keep an eye out for a good deal?   You can save a search in ebay and it will email you daily, but I found that it leaves a lot to be desired.   It always gives me notification about suggested items that do not match my search.

I looked for a better way to keep on top of searching for what I was looking for and found that you can turn an ebay search into an RSS feed.   Load it into your favorite RSS reader or website and it will give you all the recent hits on your search.

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Twitter RSS
Find the RSS Feed for any Twitter User.

Reddit and Criminal Crowd Sourcing
Should the Internet hive-mind really be getting into the crime investigation business?

Reddits crowdsourcing power often comes into conflict with its stated commitment to protecting online privacy.

Whereas Twitter and other kinds of social media are open firehoses of information, massive Internet forums like Reddit provide a community platform for dissecting information. At first blush, that might seem like a great idea.

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More on Google Reader
Google Readers split from its loyal user base has been a tad messy. It is not you, it is us, Google implored. We are living in a new kind of computing environment, was their attempt at letting users down gently.
However, for some die-hard fans it was all too much and they answered the only way they knew how – a selection of moderately funny internet memes and online petitions.

For the uninitiated, the search giant is set to shut down its RSS tool on July 1st; a service used daily by millions to gather together content from blogs, newswires and almost countless sites around the web.

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Where to Submit MediaRSS Feeds
Where to submit RSS feeds with Media.

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State Department RSS Feeds
You can choose from several Department of State RSS feeds to get the latest news from the Department delivered directly to your desktop via an RSS reader or news aggregator

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What is Pinging?
What is Pinging?

Marketing your blog requires more than simply publishing new content -- you need to tell the world to update the content in your RSS feed by sending a ping message to subscribers, search engines, blog aggregators and update services. Configure your blog or podcast with an RSS feed channel and tell ping services to update your content.

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Computer Scolding Cartoon

Computer Scolding Cartoon

Why RSS Still Matters
Just as with any major tech event, it spurred a raft of reactions on what is currently our best real-time conversation broadcasting network, Twitter. Reactions ranged from outrage to sadness to smugness — the latter epitomized by the camp who say that RSS was already a confusing mess that needed to be shot down completely and besides, it had been replaced by Twitter itself anyway.

Well, no. RSS matters.

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New Feedly Features
Here is what is new in the latest version of Feedly:

The developers have fixed a login bug that forced users to login to the service regularly. According to Feedly, this should not happen anymore even if the servers are taxed to the limit.
The title only view mode - my preferred mode of viewing RSS updates - has been improved. It now stretches across the whole width of the browser window automatically. While that is not entirely true, as you can see from the screenshot above, it is still an improvement. The title only view has also received more sharing options (while hovering over an article).
Faster load times for the service. The developers have optimized the client code so that you should experience better performance while using the service.
Support for folders that include  [] brackets.
Support for Hebrew and Farsi.
Improved feed search to find feeds by URL and add them to your list of subscribed feeds.
Feedly seems dedicated to improve the service and while many users are waiting for a web-based version of it, the improvements certainly are welcome additions to the service as well.

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FeedsAPI
Truncated feeds can be a bummer, especially if you really enjoy reading your favorite blogs via RSS. FeedsAPI is a service that will take any truncated RSS feed, expand it to a full-text feed, and then deliver the resulting stories directly to your inbox, or to your preferred news reader. Best of all, it does this in real-time, so you don't have to wait hours for stories to process.

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Why Reading is Important Cartoon!

Why Did Google Abandon RSS?
When Google announced Reader, their RSS service, was being shuttered… news junkies everywhere revolted. Reader was the easiest, simplest, cleanest RSS feed available. Everyone wondered why it was being shut down, and a groundswell of support was initiated to bring it back.

There has been no sign of Google reversing their spring cleaning initiative, but it is really hard to believe they would simply abandon RSS altogether.

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6 of the Best FREE RSS Readers
You have probably been searching for the best free RSS readers ever since Mountain View struck down with the news about not supporting the Google-branded one starting from July 2013. The company may have cited declining usage as one of the reasons for shutting shop on this front, but that was no consolation for people like us who were thrown into panic on hearing about the imminent demise of the service. So if you’re switching from Google’s syndication service or any other similar tool, here are some good options in no particular order -

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Digg Building RSS Tool
Googles spring cleaning has begun, and the company has already axed one of the most loved services, even though the user rate has been declining over the years. Google Reader, one of the biggest RSS feeds, has got its death date, even with people making petitions for Google Reader to stay.

However, times may not be terrible for the people that still regularly use RSS readers, as Digg has said they are building a Google Reader replacement and they believe it will be ready before Google axe Reader on July 1 2013.

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Google Removes RSS Support From Chrome
Google Reader is not the only RSS product to be getting the ax at Google. The RSS extension for Googles Chrome Web browser has also been cut, which means that Chrome users can no longer use it to quickly subscribe to RSS feeds as they browse the Web.

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RSS to Email for Bloggers
With Google Reader being abandoned millions of bloggers are left to figure out a way to keep their content in front of their readers, hoping they are tech-savvy and interested enough to transfer their feeds to another service.

However, email marketing service Mad Mimi offers an effective alternative. An RSS to Email feature allows businesses and bloggers to share their content with subscribers and maintain control of their distributions.

RSS to Email automatically converts blog posts into the form of an email for subscribers. The blogger uses a webform to collect email addresses.

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RSS to Twitter
A look at RSS Feeds to Twitter

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Feedly Growth
Feedly has been around for a while and offers a similar interface, akin to Google Reader. With 500,000 new users, the company has said that they will continue to work to keep the servers running, while making subtle changes to the interface. The RSS reader will also be offering seamless integration with your Google account, to move all your Reader settings.

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The Future of RSS
Todays world is filled with massive amounts of information. According to IBM, 90% of todays existing data has been created in just the past two years. People no longer sit down at their desktop and surf the web for an hour a day. Instead, they are constantly creating, searching for information, and retrieving content from all types of devices – smartphones, tablets, e-readers, and laptops. As these digital technologies continue to evolve and move in a more mobile direction, new opportunities arise for technologies like RSS.

Hot new mobile applications like Flipboard provide a great example of how RSS feeds can be leveraged to bring updated digital content to customers. Flipboard

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Create an RSS Feed for Google+ Feed
Create an RSS Feed for Your Google+ Feed using GPlusRSS

Great IFTTT Recipes
Great recipes for using If This Than That....

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RSS.com For Sale
The asking price? $200,000......

The domain was initially aquired for $125,000.

What is an RSS Feed Reader?
The RSS Feed Reader is just one example of many tools that will help you do exactly that – improve productivity in your business so you can do everything you have to and still have some time left for your family at the end of the day!

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8 More Google Reader Options
Google Reader is on its deathbed, slated to meet its end on July 1st. Its demise has been looming in the distance for a while, so this should come as no surprise. And while this is certainly a time of mourning, there's the unseemly business of finding a replacement. Here is a list of platform agnostic alternatives that should help make the transition as painless as possible.

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How to Export Your RSS Feeds from Google Reader
By now, the shock that Google Reader is shutting down this summer has probably sunk in. Once you get past the outrage, it's time to figure out how to export your RSS feeds from your beloved reader before it goes dark.

For the fastest, most reliable way to save your RSS feeds from the cemetery of cyberspace, use Googles Takeout service.

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12 Google Reader Alternatives
The scramble is on. With news today that Google Reader is shutting down on July 1st, its users are on the hunt for a solid RSS reader alternatives.

Here are some options you might want to consider if you are a Google Reader user:

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Google Reader
Google Reader is closing in July, IMO this is not a good move for Google.

Blog Posts That Get Attention
Blogs are now a dime a dozen, and bloggers need to make their blog posts stand out. Developing a blog following is not as easy as it once was. Learn how to write blog posts that attract readers and retain their attention. Follow these guidelines to cultivate readers...

Blog Posts that Get Attention

10 Social Media Fears to Overcome
Are any of these reasons stopping you from using social media for your business?

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4 RSS News Aggregators for Android
The beauty of smartphones and tablets running Android today can only be appreciated by looking at the apps it offers.  While offering many other features, one group of apps  available for tablets and smartphones are the so-called news aggregator apps that gives almost instant around the clock news access. If you are the type who wants to know whats happening around the world in an instant, news sources will be at your fingertips by getting any of the news aggregator apps that we will be discussing below.

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Facebook Complaints
On Monday, Facebook put up a blog post saying engagement has gone up 34 percent on posts from people who have more than 10,000 followers. But Facebook did not share real numbers or metrics, leaving people guessing what 34 percent actually equals.

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I Work on the Internet Cartoon

I Work on the Internet Cartoon!

How Charities Can Make Better Use of Social Media
Social media is an increasingly effective strategy for charities that want to connect with supporters. A recent survey showed that UK charitable organisations have doubled their supporters on key social media channels in the past year. Yet, for many charities, the vastness of the social media landscape is too daunting to venture into.

At The Clare Foundation, we encourage tenants at our Buckinghamshire charity centre to take advantage of all the opportunities that social media channels offer. Our approach is to encourage charitable organisations to bring established commercial methods, business expertise and entrepreneurism to the voluntary sector. Maximising the effectiveness of social media is one area in which many charities need to catch up with commercial businesses.

Charities rely on public support and so need to find new ways to reach their supporters, potential donors and volunteers. Social media can be one of the most effective ways for charities to build supporters, boost donations, share success stories, network with like-minded organisations, encourage people to sign up to campaigns, recruit volunteers, or demonstrate the impact of their work.

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Businesses Benefit from Listening to Social Media
When many financial advisers ask their firms about fully engaging in social media, the answer is usually still a resolute "no" - to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Pinterest, blogging and just about anything else.

Only a few of the major financial firms, including Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, have started pilot programs to give their financial advisers access to social media, because each interaction has to be monitored by a compliance system to make sure advisers are abiding by regulations.

Advisers themselves aren't convinced that there's enough value for their practices in using social media. Only 19 percent of the 463 financial advisers surveyed by Aite Group, a research firm based in Boston, said they found social media to be useful to their businesses. LinkedIn use was up 10 percent since 2009, but professional use of Facebook and Twitter dropped 10 percent and 8 percent, respectively, and blogging was down 9 percent, according to the Aite study.

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Great Collection of RSS Scripts for Manipulating RSS Feeds
Large collection of RSS Scripts for manipulation RSS feeds.

Keep Up With Your Favourite Social Networks Using RSS Notifications
Keeping track of the many social networks you are a member of can certainly be a challenging task. Between Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Flickr, and more, we all probably have at least two or three accounts that we check on a daily basis. If you’re an avid user of RSS readers, one solution to keep up with notifications, is to load them all into Google Reader

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Measuring Social ROI
Measuring social media ROI requires identifying social objectives.

Deploying winning social media programs is a top priority for most companies.  While its early days with these initiatives, management being management still wants quantifiable value and ROI.   How do you determine if your social media program is delivering the goods?

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Techniscience.com Launch
TechniScience.com was launched on Feb 19, 2013 as a Web 2.0 social network featuring the latest information in the basic and applied technical sciences of architecture, chemical engineering, civil engineering, communications engineering, control systems engineering, electronics engineering, industrial engineering and mechanical engineering. The website aims to alert visitors in real-time through topic-specific site content and RSS feeds.


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A Look at Newsjacking
Newsjacking is when you have an opportunity to blog about a current news event and add your own perspective. If you have an opportunity to work this technique into your content marketing strategy, it can be extremely effective at creating traffic and interest in your brand, as well as giving you another option for your writing. To be successful at newsjacking though, there are a number of aspects that you’ll need to prepare and consider.

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RSS Feeds Drive Traffic
Did you know RSS feeds currently drive about 10 percent of Web traffic for major websites?

Checkout the FBIs RSS Feeds
Huge list of RSS Feeds from the FBI

Interesting Thoughts on Protecting Content
One of the annoyances of publishing original content online is when Google chooses to return a copy of your work from another website before your original in its search results pages. Googles traffic is money for website publishers, as more readers can mean more money from ad revenue.

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RSS Pros and Cons
If you are struggling with the decision of whether to implement RSS feeds or not, consider the following pros and cons for webmasters who use RSS feeds as part of their content and communication plan...

RSS Pros and Cons

What is Your Myers Briggs Social Media Type
Recently, the developers of the study, CPP, compared their data to those who use social media and the results are fascinating.

Here are some of the best parts of the stats of users on the infographic:

69% of extraverts use Facebook, higher than the 65% average of all people, and more than the 60% of introverts.

75% of feeling people browse once a day but only 23% share about their personal life.

Intuition people are more likely to use LinkedIn and Twitter than Sensing people.

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Responding to a Social Media Crisis
How to respond to a social media crisis.

The End of Web Search as We Know It
This lifestream — a heterogeneous, content-searchable, real-time messaging stream — arrived in the form of blog posts and RSS feeds, Twitter and other chatstreams, and Facebook walls and timelines.

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CleverFeed
CleverFeed is smart reader for Google Reader subscriptions for Macs. It will sort the news in a convenient and smart way: according to your tastes and preferences most desirable news will come first.

All you need to do is define what you are interested in and add such tags in CleverFeed. Once done, CleverFeed will sort all news you are subscribed to according to your interests.

Absolutely Hysterical for Webmasters or Podcasters!
Checkout this very funny cartoon for those who have struggled with RSS feeds.

Embedded Tweets and More
Embedded tweets have been updated, and Twitter has made design and technical changes to the popular format.

As Twitter becomes ever more popular, even among heads of state, naturally more people are going to be inserting their favorite snippets into blog posts and other kinds of websites. For those people, the new changes will help make those embedded tweets more interactive and more stylish.

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What Do You Want from a Tech Podcast?
If you subscribe to podcasts on a regular basis, you’ve discovered there is no shortage of formats. Some are published daily, some are published weekly. Some feature a solitary host, while others entertain a rotating panel of guests. Some episodes clock in at only 5 minutes, while others frequently break the 2 hour barrier. And when it comes to content, the sky is the limit.

Assuming you have room on your subscription list for another podcast focused on technology and gadgets, what would you expect from it?

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Samsung Cool Factor
Samsung Electronics Co. is succeeding where other technology companies have tried and failed: closing the coolness gap with Apple Inc.

The deep-pocketed Korean company has used a combination of engineering prowess, manufacturing heft and marketing savvy to create smartphones that can rival the iPhone in both sales and appeal.

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Apple Is Not a Bellwether
The rise of Apple shares over the last few years was meteoric. Their fall over last few days has been traumatic. But these gyrations may not matter much to the overall stock market.

They will matter, of course, if you lost money as Apple dropped from $702 in September to $439.88 on Friday. And the companys struggles may be of more than passing interest even if you never intend to own any of its shares.

Apple remains a colossus, even if Exxon Mobil surpassed it as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world on Friday, exactly one year after iPhone sales propelled Apple to the top spot. Still, all of those iPhones, iPads and other gadgets make Apple matter in many households.

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Like RSS Specifications on Facebook
If you love RSS, please like us on Facebook.

Great Social Media Articles Compiled
Top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes the 10 types of Twitter user, a look at what happens in social media every minute of the day, an essential social media glossary, the history of the internet 1969-2012 and your twelve-month plan for social media success.

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Influence of Social Media on Presidential Election
•        Overall, 29 percent said social media was moderately to extremely influential in their opinions of the candidates and issues.

•        Nearly two-thirds 63 percent said the quality of information about the candidates and issues on
social media was the same or better than that from traditional media.

•        Approximately 40 percent participated in a political discussion with others in their social
networks and 28 percent said they displayed their political affiliation on their networks.

•        Overall political engagement and participated showed: 25 percent donated money to a candidate or political party; 23 percent connected through social media; 13 percent subscribed to online news.

•        Of those engaged or involved, 77 percent made political contributions online and/or through a
website. 19 percent made a contribution through Facebook.

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10 Questions to Ask a Social Media Consultant
A social media consultant is essentially the eyes, ears and voice of your company online. That means you need someone who can raise your brand awareness, deliver traffic to your website, and boost your bottom line -- all while keeping your company's reputation top-of-mind.

So how do you hire just the right person? Here are 10 key questions you should ask prospective social media consultants:

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Bamboo Feed Reader
Bamboo Feed Reader, which I found on our Best of Firefox add-ons page, is a simple and no-nonsense reader that focuses on the important part of RSS feeds – the reading. You

What is Hot What is Not 2012
Each year we scratch our heads and come up with trends or technology that we think will be hot in the coming year. Checkout our list of What is Hot and What is Not in 2013.

Social Media Hack Attacks
The burgeoning use of social media in business has fuelled cybercrime attacks, Kaspersky Lab has warned. The computer security company expects such attacks to grow this year and beyond, wreaking financial havoc along the way.

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Translate Blogs
Instantly Translate Foreign Blogs In Your RSS Feed with a Google Script.

If you exclusively use Google Reader, you can change your settings to automatically translate pages. However, if you use third party apps like Flipboard, Reeder, Feedly, or others, the process is not automatic. Digital Inspiration's method uses a Google Script to translate the site, and then creates a RSS feed URL you can plug into your favorite reader.

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Predictions from Social Media Pros
Are you wondering what 2013 might look like for social media marketing?

If the changes seen in 2012 are an indicator, there will be a lot more change in 2013.

To get a grip on what the near future may look like, we tapped the knowledge of 21 social media pros.

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Use RSS Feeds to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
There are many factors that make blogs much better than normal WebPages including the speed at which blogs are indexed, ability to submit to blog directories and normal directories, pings and track backs. All these little things can help drive more traffic to blogs.

Use RSS Feeds to Drive Traffic to Blogs

Most Expensive Domain Names in 2012
Domain names can cost as little as $2. But if they are highly desirable, they can be sold for millions.

In 2010, Sex.com became the most expensive domain name in the world when it sold for $13 million. By comparison, the highest selling domain name this year cost $2.45 million.

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Way to Automate TwitterFeed Using RSS
Twitter has taken the social media world by storm but, as anyone who has used it will know, it can be quite demanding.

You need to use it regularly to get the most out of it otherwise your followers will lose interest.

So what do you do if you're not always able to tweet, or if you want to keep your followers in other time zones happy whilst you're tucked up in bed?

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RSS Feeds from Popular Social Sites
Most of the popular online apps and services including the likes of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, offer RSS feeds but the problem is that you have to be a near geek in order to discover any of these feeds.

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Social Media Trends
As you might have guessed, the amount of time consumers spent on PCs and Smartphones increased between July 2011 and July 2012.  Time spent on these devices grew by 21%, while time on apps rose 120% in that same period.  While PCs still remain our primary source of Internet access, the usage of mobile Web and apps are increasing at a significant rate.

Social Media Trends

FeedBlitz Case Study
FeedBlitz is an RSS to email service that monitors RSS feeds to improve the reach that feed publishers can achieve and provide them with options for monetising their blogs.

FeedBlitz Case Study

Financial RSS Feeds
Get financial news via RSS feeds.

Internet Over Sharing
Mothers-to-be may be divulging too much pregnancy information on social media, a survey suggests.

Two in five people believe that pregnant women overshare details on websites such as Facebook, according to a poll by Netmums and the Department of Healths Start4Life campaign.

Nine in 10 of those surveyed said they had seen an image online of a friend's scan and 22% said they had viewed a photo of a positive pregnancy test.

More than two thirds of people felt that mothers-to-be were more likely to try to show a perfect pregnancy than a realistic one, according to the survey of 2,000 Netmums members who use Facebook.

And 62% said they felt friends were more likely to talk about trivial aspects of their pregnancy rather than important matters such as their health.

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Social Adoption
A survey of 600 small business owners across the United States indicates that 90% are actively engaged in social networking sites, reported Social Media Today, and 74% perceive social networking as valuable if not more valuable than networking in-person.

Pretty startling statistics for social adoption!

Social Media Quick to Judge, Slow to Absolve
Though much of the story surrounding Friday's horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., remains mystifying, one thing is clear: Ryan Lanza is not the shooter. Contrary to early reports from officials, the shooter has now been identified as Lanza's brother, Adam, now counted among the dead, along with their mother.

But for several hours, the name Ryan Lanza was synonymous with the heinous killing spree, and a jury of Internet denizens had him condemned as a murderer. And why not? All of the major news outlets had declared it so, citing a credible source, and Lanzas name blazed in headlines.

Almost immediately, websites — homing in on a publicly viewable Facebook profile — took screen grabs of the page to illustrate news stories, identifying him as the deceased killer.

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Social Media Role in Tragedies
Social media users immediately took to Twitter and Facebook to express their shock at the shooting. Twitter was filled with messages of support for the Newtown community.

Social Time Suck
According to Nielsens 2012 Social Media Report released this week, Americans spent 121 billion minutes on social networking sites between July 2011 and July 2012, up from 88 billion the previous year. Apps captured a large portion of those minutes, accounting for a third of overall social networking time.

The percentage of time Americans spent on social networking sites rose 37 percent to 121 billion minutes in the last year.

Facebook topped the list of most-visited social networks, as expected, but time spent on Pinterest’s website increased by more than 1000 percent year-over-year. Google+, Tumblr, and Twitter are also growing in popularity, and sucking away more of your time.

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Social Media Tips for Job Hunting
The new year will be here before we know it and college seniors will soon be taking to the streets, heading to web and networking events in hopes of landing a job post-graduation. Any modern job search requires more than just a resume and portfolio, however. Here are five essential social media tips from creative staffing agency, Vitamin T, which job seekers should consider when embarking on their job search.

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FeedRoller
New FeedRoller is a lightweight RSS feed ticker.

It is designed to show scrolling headlines from your favorite news sites and blogs, directly on your desktop.

RSS2SQL Script
The RSS2SQL script allows you to easily create SQL databases from RSS feeds. The script currently supports the conversion of RSS feeds to MySQL databases.

RSS2SQL

Generate Traffic Using RSS Feeds
One Method For Generating Traffic Is By Using RSS Feeds.

All the techniques with internet marketing are available to anyone who chooses to use them, but it is interesting that they do not all use them with the same degree of proficiency.

It is not hard to give you many examples of this; one minute cure is such an example because it is popular. You can take a thousand people all using the same group of methods, and you know what will happen in terms of how well they do.

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RSS Application Recommendations for Android
Three RSS applications to try for Android.

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Track Your WordPress Feed Stats
Available free in the WordPress repository, the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress gives you stats based on your native WP feed.

The only thing you really have to know about it is that, like all statistic options, it’s data is inaccurate for the first couple days. In fact, this is the type of plugin that probably should run a good 30 days before you really dig into the data it provides.

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MediaFed Uses RSS Feeds
Just in the last six weeks, Mediafed added 45 million new users as it expanded its partnerships with publishers across the globe. In total, Harrison told me, the company monetized over 200 million stories in the last quarter and powered over 3 billion article views in October.

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There are Negatives to Social Media
Social media does have a powerful amplifying effect. But just like any technology, it can be used for good or evil. The key is building the right social strategy for your brand.

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Problems With Social Media
Just because it is on the Internet does not mean it is true:

Perhaps people should have known better than to trust someone with the Twitter handle @ComfortablySmug during hurricane Sandy. Some of his tweets, such as 'BREAKING: Confirmed flooding on NYSE. The trading floor is flooded under more than 3 feet of water,'were false.

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Is Twitter Too Big for Meaningful Conversations?
In general my favorite thing about Twitter has been the unexpected and unpredictable conversations, especially but not only the funny ones. And these are happening for me far less often than they once were. I do not know why, and I wish I did.

In general, it seems to me that the people I once conversed with the most are on Twitter far less often than they used to be, but it's possible that they are just not there at the same time that I am.

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RSS Specifications on Twitter
Follow RSS Specifications on Twitter @RSSSpects

Social Media Management Solution
The social media management dashboard HootSuite is growing yet again, with a handful of new additions to its App Directory: Reddit, StumbleUpon, Scoop.it, Nexalogy, and Cmp.ly.

HootSuite launched all the way back in 2008, allowing users to manage their multiple social networks through one, easy-to-use dashboard. Since then, HootSuite has grown into a global social media brand used by individuals, companies, you name it. The dashboards services continue to grow, adding the above apps to the directory after releasing its Engagement API earlier this year. At that time, HootSuite attracted Digg, Trendspottr, Instagram, and SlideShare to its App Directory.

Twitter Timeline RSS feed changes URL
On the 9th October 2012 Twitter stopped the implementation of the RSS feed for your twitter timeline.

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EU Asks Google To Update Policies
European Union officials have asked Google to rework its recently overhauled privacy policy in order to better protect users rights. It follows a France-led probe into the legality of the Internet giants policies.
The letter from 24 of 27 of the blocks data protection regulators, which was made public after being obtained by Reuters prior to its official announcement Tuesday, follows a running investigation opened by France this spring into the legality of Googles method of collecting user data. Introduced in March, the companys new guidelines consolidated 60 separate privacy policies into one and collate user data from across Googles services, which include Gmail and YouTube.

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RSS Search Hub
Located RSS Search Feeds using keywords on RSS Search Hub

How to Effectively Protect Your Web Content
Just like writers, photographers, and other creative artists have learned, protecting content is one of the primary struggles that webmasters face on a daily basis. It takes time and talent to develop quality content, and there are few things more frustrating than to discover that your content has been poached by another website.

There are a number of actions that webmasters can take to proactively protect their work from being used without authorization by people on the web who are simply looking to cut corners. Take the following steps to proactively guard your content...

Tips for Protecting Your Web Content

The Journal of Commerce RSS Feeds
Magazines and online news agencies have adopted RSS feeds for a various things. Checkout the RSS feeds for Journal of Commerce by category.

FeedBurner Stat Issues
Feed stats, one of FeedBurners main features, is currently broken, and Google quietly wrote a shutdown notice for the API. FeedBurner is a product that has been neglected by Google over the years. Yet, as the dominant product to manage RSS feeds, many developers count on it and expect it to be reliable. The future of the service remains unsure and a service shutdown is not out of the equation.

FeedBurner, which was acquired by Google for $100 million in 2007, was not part of the latest round of shutdowns announced by Google. We have no news to announce at this time, said a Google spokesperson to TechCrunch today.

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Mobilizing the Web of Feeds
While the news that Twitter will no longer support RSS was not really surprising, it was a bit annoying. It served as yet another reminder that the Twitter-as-open-message-utility idea that many early adopters of the service loved was in fact going away.

There are already several projects intending to disrupt Twitter, mostly focused on the idea of a distributed, federated messaging standard and/or platform. But we already have such a service: an open standard adopted by millions of sources; a federated network of all kinds of interesting, useful and entertaining data feeds published in real-time. It is called RSS.

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AdSense for RSS Feeds Gets the Axe
As part of its latest round of spring cleaning, Google just announced that it is shuttering AdSense for Feeds. The service, which allows publishers to earn a bit of extra revenue by adding Googles ads to their RSS feeds, will be retired on October 2 and will close on December 3. Given that Feedburner has long been expected to be on one of Googles next spring cleaning lists, it does not come as a surprise that the company is now shutting down the only way it was actually making money from the product.

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Podcast Sermons
The Internet has made spreading faith significantly easier. In the past, community residents were limited to the churches, temples and houses of worships that were available within driving distances. Coordinating schedules with sermons could be challenging for busy families.

The Internet has opened the doors to a diverse congregation that exists beyond the traditional borders that communities have become accustom to. Using technology as a communication medium has not been lost on spiritual leaders and many have embraced the Internet as a medium to spread their faith. It is rare to find a house of worship that does not have a website or Internet presense. Expanding upon this theme, parishes looked to podcasting to further expanded the reach of their spiritual counselors and ministers. Many preachers record homilies, hymns, services, sermons or gospel teachings, for parishioners and interested listeners.

Podcasting allows followers to listen to mass or sermons on their way to work or at a time and place of their choosing. Integrating technology into spiritual messages has become a modern solution to chaotic schedules in an online world.

Podcast Sermons

Reputation Management
The Internet is a bit like the old wild west, and sadly, people often post material about an individual, product, company, or service that is inaccurate or simply nasty. Businesses and individuals alike are struggling with how to best deal with online inaccuracy and defamation. The normal steps for dealing with defamation typically involve litigation, but this is not always realistic for Internet-based situations since the Internet is global, and not managed or governed by any single set of laws.

If you have the good fortune of being located in the same legal jurisdiction as the offending poster and their website hosting company, you might be able to successfully prosecute them; or at the very least, you might be able to get the webpage with the offending material taken down by the website host. Keep in mind that most defamation court cases require that you show that actual harm was done by the offending material, which can often be difficult.

Reputation Management

Feed+
It feels kinda strange that Google has not integrated RSS feed capabilities into its social networking site Google+.

Feed+ is a sample app that allows you to create an RSS feed of public Google+ activites and quickly add it to your Google Reader account.

Cool Social Media PowerPoint Templates
Checkout the Social Media PowerPoint Templates

New Feedly
Feedly is revamping its image after falling behind as a Google Reader platform, while competitors like Flipboard, Zite, and Pulse have turned the news aggregation model on its head. This week, Feedly announced a newly redesigned app that from the looks of it joins the ranks of its more well-known competitors by combining your Google Reader feed with a sleek linear interface and the mechanisms of a social news reader.

Social Media Tips
Before logging onto Facebook or signing into Twitter, consider this: Who is your audience and what are your objectives?

Those are vital questions businesses should be able to answer so they can get the most out of social media, said panelists at the Go for the Greens 2012 Business Development Conference for Women Entrepreneurs.

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Social Media Reviews... For Sale
Beware of social-media reviews in the coming years.

Between 10 percent and 15 percent of all user reviews on social-media sites will be paid for by companies selling the products, research firm Gartner reported today in a new study.

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13 Tips to Maintain RSS Subscribers
You have an RSS feed and you have worked hard to get the word out. According to your logs you have subscribers! Now the hard part: how to retain the subscribers to your RSS feed. Follow these simple steps to insure that your subscriber base will grow.

1. Original Content
A consistent stream of original content will do well to earn subscribers loyalty. The best RSS feeds provide content that is compelling and unique. Do not rehash existing content, look for a unique angle or spin if you wish to cover something that is hot in the blogosphere.

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What is Web 2.0
There has been a lot of chatter lately about Web 2.0, as if the Internet is a versioned software application. So what is Web 2.0? Simply put, Web 2.0 is a perceived transition of the web to web applications.

What is Web 2.0

SQL2RSS
The sql2rss.php script allows you to easily create rss feeds from SQL databases. The script currently supports the conversion of MySQL databases to RSS feeds.

When using SQL2RSS the publisher has complete control over the content in the resulting RSS feed. Administrators and publishers control the database query which allows them the flexibility to determine what data is inserted into the RSS feeds from the database.

SQL2RSS

Twitter Angers Developers More
Developers continue to complain after Twitter's new API guidelines killed off RSS support.

Twitter has previously angered developers with a series of moves to lock down the network, including removing the ability to find Twitter friends on Tumblr and Instagram and limiting the number of users apps can support.

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Need to Submit Your RSS Feeds?
The following sites allowing you to submit RSS feeds.

Need to Convert Database to and From RSS Feeds?
FeedForAll has two PHP scripts that will allow you to easily convert RSS to and from an SQL database. Checkout RSS2SQL and SQL2RSS scripts for details.

Tips to Maintain RSS Subscribers
You have an RSS feed and you have worked hard to get the word out. According to your logs you have subscribers! Now the hard part: how to retain the subscribers to your RSS feed. Follow these simple steps to insure that your subscriber base will grow.

Tips to Maintain RSS Subscribers

Where to Find Logos
The Internet has made it easier than ever for individuals to start a business at a very low entry cost. The barrier to entry for starting a web-based business can even be as low as $100.00. Every web business should have an identity, and many business owners realize that they may lack the necessary graphical talent, and are often unsure of where to look for it. If cost is an issue, you can find ready-made logos at many online logos sites, such as these...

Where to find Logos

RSS Auto Discovery Code Automatically
Simple Steps to Create RSS Auto Discovery Code:

Automatically post RSS Feeds to Google+, Twitter and Facebook
Hootsuite for the most part if a commercial service that allows webmasters to monitor social networking traffic. One of its features is the option to automate postings on social networking sites such as Google+, Twitter or Facebook, and that’s what this guide is about.

RSS Standard Under Threat
RSS is one of the universal open standards which underpins the web. Clicking on that little orange icon lets you easily subscribe to updates from a vast range of websites and services -- regardless of your technological allegiance. Your RSS reader then notifies you when new content is published. You'll either get the entire article or just the intro and link to the original webpage, depending on what the publisher wants to provide.

The major players who want to dominate the web are deliberately undermining one of its most important open standards.

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The great thing about RSS is that no-one controls it -- you can not buy it, block it or ban it.

3 Reasons Why You Need an RSS Feed
1. Allow users to subscribe to your content
2. Share and promote your content on social media
3. Help Google find new content

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Follow RSS Specifications on Twitter
Follow RSS Specifications on Twitter

Etiquette for RSS Feeds
The arguments continue to rage over the ambiguities in the RSS specifications. But the fact is: RSS is here to stay, and the current defined RSS 2.0 specification is likely going to be as good as it is going to get. Attempts have been made to create best practice documents and specification clarifications. We felt it would be helpful to provide general guidelines for those constructing an RSS 2.0 feed. In general, the following are guidelines for constructing an RSS feed. It is good to get into the habit of validating the RSS feed, either with software, or with an online validator.

Etiquette for RSS Feeds

Arduino RSS Feed Reader
Looking for a way to keep an eye on RSS feeds throughout the day? You could be sensible and use a good RSS reader, or you could do something like the Arduino RSS Feed Display.

Add Podcast Sound Effects
Spice up your podcast by adding sound effects and an introduction.

Directory of RSS feeds for Currency
Cool directory of RSS feeds to follow currency exchange rates.

Follow the Olympics Using RSS Feeds
There are an olympic number of RSS feeds and podcasts available to follow the 2012 games.

More olympic RSS feeds.

Is Twitter Angling to be an RSS Reader
Twitter has just announced some new search and discovery tools for its microblogging service (they hate it when we call it that).

On the company blog today, we read that Twitter is adding to its search tools a flurry of new features, including autocomplete, spelling correction, related items, real names and usernames, and results from people you follow.

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Social Media Manners
We learn how to act with politeness, respect, and courtesy in the real world. But in the virtual world, manners are still developing. Some thoughts on commonsense considerateness in the realm of social media.

Social Media Manners

Social Media Bubble
Is the bubble going to burst?

Social media companies, once hailed by their Silicon Valley boosters as world-changing businesses with limitless potential, are instead proving a sobering reminder of how investors can be seduced by Internet hype.

With a few exceptions, the first wave of social media firms to trade on the public markets has delivered a disastrous performance that conjures memories of the dot-com bust of 2000.

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Best RSS Reader for Mac
See what posters think the best RSS Reader for the Mac is...

Add Photos to your Blog
Add some character to your blog posts by adding photos and images.  Bloggers can use royalty free stock photos, they cover just about any topic!

Blog 99 and RSS Submission
You can promote your blog to RSS feed directories. The following is a list that we have used here at Blog 99 and is a standard RSS feed directory list we recommend to others. I would highly recommend that you submit your blog to as many of these RSS feeds as possible.

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More places to submit your RSS Feed

Quora RSS Importer
A tool that is a Google Spreadsheet that imports the most recent Quora posts based on a Quora category.

Quora RSS Importer

Publicize Your RSS Feed
There is little argument from webmasters and publishers that RSS brings in traffic. So once you have made the leap and created a feed, how do you tell your visitors about the feed?

Publicize your RSS feed.

RSS Guidelines for Bloggers
If you publish a blog, here are three proposed guidelines for RSS feeds.

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How to Use RSS
The Internet is a big place. Really big. With over a billion existing pages and thousands more being created each day, there are a lot of great sites with a lot of fantastic content out there. But with such a massive torrent of media being produced each day, it can sometimes be hard to keep up with all your favorite sites. So how do we alleviate this problem? The answer is simple — really simple in fact. Here is a really simple explanation of Really Simple Syndication.

How to Use RSS

RSS Education Center
Learn all about RSS and RSS feeds using the RSS Education Center

Content Syndication
New websites are being launched daily. In order to compete, webmasters need to find alternative ways of producing themed websites. Highly focused articles are often sought by wembasters. Why? Because content on the web is still king! In order to attract search engines and site visitors, webmasters rely heavily on providing new, innovative and fresh content. If the web site content is rich, visitors will come. If the website content is updated regularly, visitors will return.

Content Syndication

Create An RSS Feed From Google Plus
Here are two third party services to make a  Google Plus RSS feed.

Add Twitter to Google Reader
RSS Readers helps you keep track of latest news and content from your favorite blogs. You may have several feeds added in your RSS Reader that you regularly read. But have you ever wanted to add a Twitter feed to your RSS Reader so that you can track latest tweets from that account? Fortunately, this is possible and involves a small trick.

Add a Twitter Feed to RSS Reader - http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/rssspecs.rss

Replace rssspecs with the Twitter account name.

Mobile RSS Readers
Reading news online has come a long way since the early days of RSS. The expectations of RSS subscribers have increased exponentially since then, as they can not merely do with a plain Jane textual presentation of their RSS feed any longer.

Mobile  RSS Readers

Social Media Monitoring with RSS
But if part of your job is social media monitoring, you need to make sure you do not miss anything. That might include keeping an eye on competitors, tracking conversation around your industry and nurturing and following up with leads.

Luckily, theres a simple, free and foolproof way to store everything in one place and make sure nothing slips through the cracks: RSS feeds.

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Google Plus RSS Feeds
Google Plus still does not have any such option to subscribe via RSS. That is where third-party  tools can come to the rescue. Lets take a look at two such tools to grab RSS feeds from your Google+ stream.

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Do I Need an RSS Feed?
RSS has been around for more than 10 years but has only recently become popular. RSS provides headlines and summaries of information in a concise and standardized way.

Do I Need an RSS Feed?

RSS Feed Tips to Help Search Engine Optimization
RSS feeds are a great communication medium, and when properly managed, web feeds can bring in significant Internet traffic. RSS feeds should contain compelling themed content with episodic titles that are united in common broad theme. Use RSS feeds as an online marketing and search engine optimization tool. Just as optimizing an HTML web page will increase exposure, so too will an RSS feed that is properly optimized and promoted. Use these simple tips to improve your web feed exposure.


RSS Feed Tips to Help Search Engine Optimization

ABCs of RSS Feeds
Implementing RSS - Really Simple Syndication can be aided by an understanding of the terms relating to RSS. Learn the ABCs of RSS....

A - AutoDiscovery

Auto Discovery is code that is inserted into the header of an HTML web page, which then indicates to readers that an RSS feed is available for the content.

B - Blogs

Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. Blogs generally contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases, blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, political views, or even as social commentaries. The truth of the matter is that blogs can be shaped into whatever the author wants them to be. While initially thought of as diaries or online journals, blogs have evolved into the latest fresh web content.

C - Cache

Cache is a temporary storage area for frequently-accessed or recently-accessed data. Having certain data stored in a cache area speeds up the operation of the computer. Using a cache with RSS feeds will help minimize bandwidth and display an RSS feed's content quicker.

ABCs of RSS Feeds

How is Podcasting Used?
Although podcasting is new, it is well on its way to becoming a mainstream communication medium. Podcasting, simply put, is audio files that are delivered via RSS. Many people believe that podcasting is solely for the distribution of music files, but really, nothing could be further from the truth. This emerging method of audio file distribution has opened an array of marketing and communication opportunities to businesses. Currently, most who are familiar with podcasting are technically savvy, but it is clear that podcasting will be more than a passing fad as many businesses are adopting podcasting and employing it in unusual yet powerful ways. Podcasting can be used for talk shows, tutorials, music demos, educational training, stories, comedy clips, debates or even foreign language tutorials.

How is Podcasting Used

Blog Tips for SEO
Blogs are the current rage, and many webmasters have blogs but fail to use their blog to it is full potential. Blogs provide a steady stream of fresh content, and if this content is written and managed properly, blogs have the ability to increase a website's ranking in the search engines.

1. Host Your Own Blog
In order to prosper from a blog, be sure to host it on your own domain. Hosting the blog on your own server will maximize the links to your website. Link popularity is one of the factors search engines use to rank websites. Resist the urge to use free hosting services, do not give away your link popularity

Blog Tips for SEO

Good Things to Social Bookmark
It can be tricky to predict what content will perform well on social bookmarking websites. The interests of our democratic populace are widespread and constantly changing. Webpages, podcasts, and images which are deemed more newsworthy, humorous, or intriguing often steal the spotlight. Knowing how to present content on social bookmarking websites can help internet marketers stand out.

Good things to Social Bookmark

What Can Be Published Using RSS?
With all the vast amounts of information available on the web, it is becoming more and more difficult to sort through and find what you are looking for. RSS significantly lowers the signal-to-noise ratio. RSS has the unique ability to compile information and filter it, so you only see unique and relevant content. The information superhighway has become packed with content, and those familiar with technology are using RSS to filter the content, allowing them to drill down and access only the content they want, without having to wade through all the noise.

There are very few subjects or topics that do not currently have an RSS feed available. Perhaps it might be easier to ask what can not be published using RSS? RSS is a standard format to syndicate Internet content, not just blogs or podcasts, but any type of content.

What Can be Published Using RSS?

What is Podcasting?
Podcasting is quickly becoming a buzz word among the techie crowd. So what is podcasting, anyway? Podcasting is online audio content that is delivered via an RSS feed. Many people liken podcasting to radio on demand. However, in reality, podcasting gives far more options in terms of content and programming than radio does. In addition, with Podcasting, listeners can determine the time and the place, meaning they decide what programming they want to receive and when they want to listen to it.

Listeners can retain audio archives to listen to at their leisure. While blogs have turned many bloggers into journalists, podcasting has the potential to turn podcasters into radio personalities.

What is Pocasting?

RSS Tools
Great resource for all types of RSS tools.

Blog Post Ideas
The best blogs and feeds are those that contain unique, fresh, compelling, content. So where do these prolific posters get their ideas? I talked to a handful of bloggers to determine where their inspiration originated for their content.

Not surprisingly, ideas for blog posts or RSS feed items originate or are influenced by other web content. The following are venues for finding your online muse:

1.Google News
Monitor Google News for keywords related to your industry. If you find a story you disagree with or wholeheartedly agree with write about it. Add your thoughts, and editorialize the content. This does not mean you should just repost Google news summaries. The value is not only in the news aggregation, but in the commentary that you provide. Tie news items to specific events, conditions, or the impact of specific news on the industry. Adding a view point or reference to a news article adds genuine value.

Blog Post Ideas

Top Deadly Web Design Sins
Many webmasters repeat the mistakes made by their predecessors. Take a look at these Top 10 most common web design sins. Have you fallen victim to any of these?


Sin #1 - Using Techie-Speak

Many websites fail to communicate in terms that website visitors can understand. Set the technical jargon aside, and use simple language and words that will be easy for your audience to understand. Web copy should be written in simple terms. Also, keep in mind that the Internet audience is global, and using language that is more common and easy to comprehend will often expand your reach, even to include non-native speakers.

Top 10 Web Design Sins

ABCs of Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is a perceived transition of the Web to web-based applications. Web 2.0 is the next generation of technology solutions where interactive content is the norm.

There is no agreement on exactly what Web 2.0 means. Depending on who you are speaking with, you may receive different explanations. At its heart, Web 2.0 is about the maturity of the Web. While many refer to Web 2.0 as companies that employ powerful web technologies, the key components of Web 2.0 are said to include: the Web as a platform, collaboration, and syndication.

Here are the ABC's of Web 2.0...

ABCs of Web 2.0

Display RSS
Display an RSS feed within your HTML website. The easiest/best way to do this is to use RSS2HTML a free PHP script. This means that you can retain the complete control of the HTML layout using templates and make it match your existing design. Additionally using PHP rather than JavaScript will mean that search engine spiders can spider the contents of the RSS feeds.

Additional details and a free rss2html download is available at: http://www.feedforall.com/more-php.htm

Additional information and other options for displaying RSS feeds can be found at: http://www.rss-specifications.com/displaying-rss-feeds.htm

MyClicks App
MyClickApps LLC officially launches its newest app called Feedswire, which it says offers users unprecedented freedom to create a genuinely customized RSS portal that they can review regardless of whether they are online or offline. For

Technology Themed Business Cards
Technology themed business cards for Tech Companies

How to Use Twitter to Make Sales
When you think of Twitter, making sales isn’t the first thing that pops into your mind. After all, how can you sell anything on a social network where most people do nothing but talk about themselves?

You sell because they talk about themselves!

How to Use Twitter for Sales

Facebook Marketing
A new survey has discovered that over a third of small businesses are using Facebook to market themselves, freshbusinessthinking.co.uk reports.

Social media marketing is fast becoming the most popular way for firms to attract and engage new customers according to research from technology company, Basekit.

Free and easy to use, it is no surprise to hear the 36 per cent of small businesses are using Facebook as a marketing tool, turning away from established directories, such as Yellow Pages or Thomson. Just 27 per cent said they relied on directories to drum up new business.

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RSS Icons and Logos
Great collection of RSS icons and logos

Social Media WILL
Government advises Americans to create social media will to handle Facebook, Twitter, email accounts after death.

Discover Social Media RSS Feeds
Most of the popular online apps and services – including the likes of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, offer RSS feeds but the problem is that you have to be a near geek in order to discover any of these feeds.

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WordPress RSS Widget
If you are looking for a way to display RSS feeds anywhere on your site and you are using WordPress then you will be happy to hear about this trick. You know about the WordPress RSS widget… but what if displaying a feed in the sidebar is not enough. This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and put it anywhere in your theme, including a page or post template.

WordPress Tutorial

Another option is RSS2HTML

Facebook Offers in a Feed
Eight months after killing its Deals feature, Facebook is launching a new service called Offers, which makes discounts and coupons available from businesses you have Liked on the social network.

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RSS Strategy
The problem with RSS in most marketing plans is that the marketer does not really go beyond providing a simple RSS feed for your brand news. To get started the right way you need to segment RSS as a critical element of your overall content placement strategy. Your RSS Marketing strategy should not just indiscriminately push content, but carefully serve in delivering to the content preferences of your audiences.

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Tips for Increasing Blog Readership
As if it were not hard enough to make yourself seen in the big, bustling world of online marketing, consider this: snagging your blog readers attention is just the first challenge. To use your blog to grow your business, you have to keep those readers coming back, too.

Your home comfort blog should be a key part of your online marketing strategy. While various social media – including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ – serve their own purposes, your HVAC blog should sit squarely at the center of your online plan. Why? Because blogs are best-suited for the kind of quality content that will position your service company as the go-to source for information, products and service in your community.

And it is great content that keeps home comfort blog readers coming back

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Marines Seek Guidance from Pentagon on Social Media
Marine Corps officials are seeking additional guidance from the Pentagon regarding service members' use of social media amid discharge proceedings against a Camp Pendleton sergeant who criticized President Barack Obama on Facebook.

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Chinese Social Media Crack Down
After weeks of Internet-fueled rumors suggesting fissures in the top leadership ranks, Chinese authorities struck back this weekend, closing 16 Web sites and arresting at least six people in a broad crackdown on the freewheeling world of cyberspace.

Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said in a dispatch late Friday that the Web sites were closed, and the unnamed individuals detained, for fabricating or disseminating online rumors.

Follow RSS Specifications on Twitter
Follow RSSSpecs on Twitter.

4 Steps to Podcasting Series
Simple steps to produce a great podcast series:

Decide on podcast series theme and some topics around that theme
Carefully select podcast participants based on your list of topics
Contact your participant and agree on a short list of podcast questions
Book a recording date and time and make sure both you and the interviewee have the right software  and hardware

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Audio Recording Software
Need audio recording software for recording podcasts? Checkout RecordForAll for audio recording and editing.

Website Spidering
Website Spidering refers to the automated process of indexing a web site by a search engine. An automated program, known as a web crawler or spider, will go through a website following the links on each page, and will gather pertinent information from each page until it has properly indexed the entire website.

Website Spidering

RSS Feeds for Digital Signage
There are sources of free content that can feed digital signs a stream of fresh, up-to-the-minute content that will grab and hold the attention of an audience. These sources are available online in the form of RSS  feeds that offer something for just about everyone.

The diversity of the info available via RSS feeds is critical because there are so many uses for digital signs.

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Social Media Challenges
Twitter, Facebook and blogging have become part of the everyday life of many of our journalists.

That presents intriguing challenges.

Traditional media have been largely static and impersonal. Stories follow a fairly standard style. Writers names generally are listed in the newspaper, but typically without a photo. Reporters, as opposed to columnists and editorial writers, are cautioned against reporting their own opinions. We strive for balance, accuracy and impartiality.

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Digital Signage and RSS Feeds
The diversity of the info available via RSS feeds is critical because there are so many uses for digital signs. What might attract the attention of a digital signage viewer in a car dealership service department waiting area could be entirely different from what grabs the attention of those waiting in the reception area of an investment advisor or dentist. Fortunately, with enough online investigation it's possible to find RSS feed sources on topics that make sense for both people with shared, yet highly defined interests as well as mass audiences.

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Communicate with Users from Within Software Using RSS
Actively communicate with users from within your software using RSS Feeds! Free FeedForDev VCL Control and ActiveX components makes it simple to communicate with users from within your software application!

Setup RSS for Android Apps
Use Javas SAXParser to retrieve and parse an RSS feed for Android. This Java tip is for developers new to Android and includes instructions for setting up an Android development environment and a short application tutorial.

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Feed Notifier
Feed Notifier is a news notification app for the Windows operating system. When you first start it up you are asked to add feeds to the program that you want to monitor.

Small Businesses Embracing Social Media
Billie Meggs was not entirely sure about Facebook at first, but after a bit of prodding from her son, she was hooked. Meggs, the gift shop manager at Borden Market Shoppe, now runs the popular Facebook page for the shop, which has attracted more than 3,600 fans.

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Custom RSS Feed on Reddit
Reddit on the other hand is not the easiest site to use, especially its customization options require some explaining. When I first joined Reddit I tried to find public RSS feed links for categories, but could not find any that were working properly.

I then noticed that each Reddit account had its own private and customizable RSS news feed.

RSS Information Overload
As wonderful as it is to be able to tap into all the information in the world, there are only so many hours in the day to spend consuming it all. Not to worry: With a little pruning, filtering and prioritizing, we can turn the deluge of data into a nice, manageable stream of content. Here is how:

RSS Information Overload

TumblrRSS
TumblRSS allows you to import RSS feeds to Tumbler.

SportsFeedia
SportsFeedia contains RSS feeds of sports competitions from NFL to NHL

2011 Reflections and Predictions for 2012
No country suffered more than Japan in 2011. Japan was rocked by an 8.9 earthquake, then a tsunami that was created from the quake hit the small island. The tsunami caused significant damage to one of Japans power plants making it impossible to properly cool or shutdown the nuclear reactor. The inability to cool the nuclear plant resulted in a nuclear melt down, and the escape of radiation. When the trifecta hit, the Japanese people earned the world's respect, they managed the tragedy with stoicism and grace. The consequences of this horrible tragedy, and implications of the radiation leaks, into the sea and atmosphere are still unknown. Japan will bear the scars from 2011, for generations to come.

2011 Reflections, 2012 Predictions

What is Hot in Technology for 2012
1. Mushroom Cloud

The virtual cloud is now a mushroom cloud. More and more applications and data is available virtually. Customers are no longer tied to their desktops, data is accessible in the cloud. As long as you have an Internet connection, you have access, regardless of your hardware.

2. Smart Mobility

Mobile phones have become smart devices, they are more than just phones and alarm clocks. By the end of 2012, it will be hard to find a phone that does not run games, support Internet connections and have built in web browser.

3. Multi-Function Devices

I suspect that devices will begin merging, there is no longer a need for so many gadgets. The functionality of the devices from smart phones, kindles, ipads and computers are redundant and there is likely to be device consolidation as the overlap in functionality increases.

4. Democracy on the Web

The social collective voice will gain power and be much more difficult to manipulate. Reviews and ratings will thrive, and be common place.

5. UGC - User Generated Content

The need and desire of webmasters to create and maintain a steady stream of unique content will be satisfied by user generated content. The web is no longer a flat medium. Interactive user generated content will rule the web in 2012.

What is Hot in Technology for 2012

Life on the Web
No-one enjoys having to regularly refresh favourite websites to ensure nothing is missed. One solution is a technology called RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.

This allows websites to create a news feed to which visitors can subscribe; then, when new content appears on the site, some or all of it is sent automatically to the subscriber.

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Why One Journalist Opted for RSS Over Twitter
For several months I’ve stopped using RSS feeds in lieu of inbound news through email newsletters, Twitter and scanning headlines of web sites directly.

However, I have recently gone back through my RSS feeds, unsubscribed to a few, and will discipline myself to regularly check the fees throughout the day.

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FeedRinse
FeedRinse.com is a spam filter for your RSS feeds that allows you to filter up to 500 feeds.

The Importance of RSS
If you read Wikipedia, you will learn that RSS is a type of web aggregator that sends content in the form of a feed to whatever tool you use to read this content. RSS is a convenient tool for those of us who consume a lot of content from the web, but the question is, what benefit does it have for companies involved in content writing management? RSS can help a website develop backlinks, provide an easy access point to your content for clients, and help your content get indexed quickly by major search engines.

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Employers Should Employ RSS
Saving time and money is an epic battle dating back to beginning of time, or at least back to the beginning of money. We now live in a digital age where everything moves at a faster pace than ever before. In order to keep up, we must acclimate. For every old, tried-and-true method, there comes a time when a newer, better version takes its place.

Job boards are used in recruitment, not so much as an avenue for candidates to apply, but more so with the intent of reaching out to as many people as possible. Spreading the word about your opening will generate interest from multiple sources, not just those reading your advertisement. It does not matter how they apply; it only matters that they apply. While job boards represent the tried-and-true method, a more innovative way to get the job reach you’re looking for may have arrived with RSS feeds.

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What do your Subscribers Want?
While there is plenty of debate about what journalists should post and to retweet on social networking sites, there is not enough discussion about what’s not getting posted. Specifically, most of what is debated is about what news organizations want to share — not what followers actually want to see.

I am sure there are reams of data floating around corporate offices full of feedback from focus groups and online surveys about what readers want. Yet most news organization feeds are bastions of one-way discussion and self-promotion.

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Apple Policies on Social Media
Apples internal policies regarding how employees handle information both at the workplace and at home were revealed in a leaked document, depicting a tightly controlled and regulated operation with no room for error.

A recent UK court case that questioned Apples dismissal of a retail employee over comments he made on Facebook brought attention to internal policies regarding what can and can not be said about the company.

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How to Get Ideas for RSS Feeds?
The best blogs and feeds are those that contain unique, fresh, compelling, content. So where do these prolific posters get their ideas? I talked to a handful of bloggers to determine where their inspiration originated for their content.

Not surprisingly, ideas for blog posts or RSS feed items originate or are influenced by other web content. The following are venues for finding your online muse:

1.Google News
Monitor Google News for keywords related to your industry. If you find a story you disagree with or wholeheartedly agree with write about it. Add your thoughts, and editorialize the content. This does not mean you should just repost Google news summaries. The value is not only in the news aggregation, but in the commentary that you provide. Tie news items to specific events, conditions, or the impact of specific news on the industry. Adding a view point or reference to a news article adds genuine value.

How to Get Ideas for RSS Feeds

Podcasting Bundle - Great Techie Gifts
Podcasting Software Bundle allows for you to easily record, edit and publish podcasts!

Integrated support for iTunes. Includes audio recording software and software to easily build a podcast feed!

Includes both FeedForAll and RecordForAll software.

RSS Scripts to Manage Your RSS Feeds
Variety of RSS scripts to manage your RSS feeds.

Facebook Stopping Push Technology
Social Strategists Beware! Your workload is going to increase! From 22 November Facebook will no longer allow the automatic import of Blog and RSS feeds into Profiles.

A long-used strategy by social networkers has been to link their blog posts and websites via RSS directly to their Facebook profiles. This meant that every time they put up a blog-post, it would automatically push the information onto Facebook, creating a note.

This allowed for great interaction with fans, followers and friends — building the all-important relationship with potential clients and readers.

According to Facebook, this feature has been disabled for Pages already on 30 September.

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RSS4English
RSS4English is an application to improve English skills by reading RSS feeds about topics you like, where and when you want!

Twitter Glorifies Promotion
Twitter, the conversation-enabler? Actually, most news orgs use the service as a glorified RSS feed

As much as we tout Twitter for its conversational abilities — for its revolutionary capacity to create discursive, rather than simply distributive, relationships with news consumers — many major news organizations are still using the service as, pretty much, a vehicle for self-promotion. A new study, released today by Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, studied 13 news organizations, large and relatively small, from print, TV, and radio…and found that “mainstream news organizations primarily use Twitter to move information and push content to readers. For these organizations, Twitter functions as an RSS feed or headline service for news consumers, with links ideally driving traffic to the organizations website

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Facebook Removing RSS Feed Support
Facebook will be removing the ability to import content from your website or blog on November 22, 2011. The company wants everyone to post manually.

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RSS Summary
This is a decent overview of building and using RSS feeds.

Need to Create RSS Feeds?
FeedForAll allows users to easily create, edit and publish RSS feeds. There is a built in wizard that walks new users through setting up RSS feeds. Additionally FeedForAll supports advanced features like iTunes support.

WebTalks Reads Your RSS Feeds for You Off Your Android Device
WebTalks reads aloud your feeds in a female robotic voice, even when other sounds are running in the background—or, for more a useful scenario, when another app is running in the foreground.

Best eReader for Kids
According to this Kindle is the winner.

Eco Childs Play says:

We have tried out the Apple iPad and the Barnes and Noble NOOK eBook Reader .  If you are looking for a great eReader for your kids, the Kindle is my recommendation.

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Best RSS Reader
Google flipped virtual tables with its changes to Google Reader this week. Some of you like it, many of you hate it, and some people have even gone to the length of starting a petition demanding Google change it back. All of this got us wondering, now that Google Reader is different, will you keep using it? Or do you have another RSS newsreader that you either already prefer or plan to migrate to?

Best RSS Reader

SocialBakers and Social RSS
Social media analytics platform Socialbakers has snapped up Social RSS, the most popular RSS reader application on Facebook.

Social RSS allows users to add blogs and other favourite RSS feeds to walls and tabs to user profiles or Facebook pages.

Monastery Launches RSS Feed
The Brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist announced today that due to popular demand they created an RSS feed for their Brother, Give Us A Word daily devotion. The RSS feed will allow others churches, youth ministries, camps and Christian music groups to post it on their website.

Monastery RSS Feeds

Huge List of RSS Feed Tools
We have put a huge list of RSS Tools in a single page. This will help RSS users find tools that suit their needs. If you have an addition drop us an email.

FeedBeater
Many websites nowadays offer to send updates to the visitor either with the help of RSS feeds or email. Some websites on the other hand that you may find useful come without those options. If you want to stay up to date, you need to find a way to create custom email alerts or feeds to do so.

FeedBeater is an online service that can create RSS feeds or email alerts for any webpage on the Internet (that does not require login or is otherwise protected).

Ribbun RSS Feed Submission Software
Ribbun is a new RSS feed submission software.

Social Media Authenticity
It is common for battles to result in some casualties, whether they be physical or digital. In the digital world, thankfully, these casualties are more metaphoric than tragic, but the effects are quite dire in their own right. In this particular case, the injured party is social media authenticity in both business and in the building of personal brands.

Some cynics might ask, was social media ever really authentic? To answer that question, try to recall Twitters early days as one small example. There was true community.

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SocialGrapple
Google Inc. has made another acquisition that could help the search engine strengthen its social media-related offerings. SocialGrapple, a  start-up company that sells analytical services for Twitter, said this week that it has been acquired by Google.

Neither Google nor SocialGrapple said how much Google paid for the firm.

Tips to Get Things Accomplished
All of us start the day with every intention of completing a variety of tasks, but unfortunately many of us become distracted as the day moves on. Or even worse, we are tasked with crisis management, and at the end of the day we find that we have made little progress in whittling down the days planned tasks. As well intentioned as you may be, it seems to become a routine, and one that far too many of us fall into.

Tips To Get Things Accomplished

Tips for RSS Promotion
There is little argument from webmasters and publishers that RSS brings in traffic. So once you've made the leap and created a feed, how do you tell your guests regarding the feed?

Tips for RSS Promotion

Social Media Marketing
Although social marketing is a top priority and critical for future success, marketers struggle with ROI measurement of social campaigns, as a result, constraining or threatening all important future funding.

- Surveys report that even though ROI measurement is vital to success, that:

- Some 75% of B2B social marketers currently not measuring the ROI of social initiatives

- Almost two-thirds of companies 61% indicating their organizations are poor 34% or very poor  27% at measuring return on investment from social media

Social Media Skills
If you think social media is primarily good for reconnecting with long-lost friends from high school or stalking celebrities to find out what they had for breakfast, think again.

Now more than ever, M.B.A. students and applicants live and breathe through social media, a new online survey reveals. And that level of social media use is a good thing, considering the growing demand in the business world for employees with honed social media skills.

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Social Media and Politics
After the Arab Spring surprised the world with the power of technology to revolutionize political dissent, governments are racing to develop strategies to respond to, and even control, the new player in the political arena -- social media.

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Social Media Changing the Times
Social networking is what some information technology academics consider to be a disruptive technology or having disruptive impact, rendering existing products, services and business models obsolete.

Although social media have not yet made any product, service or business model obsolete, the phenomenon is certainly challenging many norms, and its current and future impact is and will be profound on all aspects of life. In particular, social media are supplanting traditional media as news and entertainment outlets. A number of recent events, locally and internationally, have highlighted the possible future legal and political impact and the difficulty that society is having with this particular technology.

Social Media Influence on Employment
A persons Facebook page is a representation of how a person acts when he or she thinks nobody in authority is looking, said Jeannine Morber, owner of Morber Marketing Group. But, sometimes those people in authority are looking.

Thanks to social media websites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, employers can find out more about candidates online behavior.

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SEO for Blogs
SEO for a blog is different than SEO for most other websites, largely because of the social elements baked into blogging technology. SEO for blogs is less about buying links or tricking inadequate search technology. SEO for blogs is more focused on giving people something to talk about and creating something worthy of attention.

SEO for Blogs

Google+ RSS Feed
Many of you are familiar with RSS feeds, which are a convenient way to subscribe to syndicated content from around the web. All this information is aggregated and delivered to a single location, such as Google Reader, for easier and more efficient consumption.

In Google+, keeping an RSS feed of someones public Stream can be quite useful.

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TweepFeed
Put Twitter Links in an RSS Feed with TweepFeed

Audio Recording Software for Podcasters
Easily record and edit audio files for podcasts with RecordForAll software.

Follow @RSSSpecs
Follow @RSSSpecs on Twitter for the latest

Submit Topical Blogs
Submit topical blogs on Liquida

RSS Is Not the Problem
To claim that RSS is bad for you if you subscribe to too many feeds is absurd.

What is bad for you is letting a tool like RSS overwhelm you, take over your life if you will. I have gone away for 3 days, as Marco suggests, and come back to thousands of RSS items, I read them all in time and it never bothered me. 1

If it bothers you, then blaming the tool is not the solution to this problem.

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In Defense of RSS
A series of articles defending the use of RSS and its potential.

RSS Scripts for Feed Management
Manage your RSS feeds using dynamic RSS Scripts. You can filter, merge, and display RSS feeds.

Small Businesses Must Adapt or Suffer the Consequences
Small businesses tend to be more agile than large corporations, but in order to take advantage of that strength, they must be willing to adapt with changing times in order to prosper and survive. This is especially true when faced with a difficult economic climate.

Small Businesses Must Adapt

Editors Pick on Google News
Publishers love to have some control over what people see when it comes to their content. That is natural. Google News is run by an algorithm and not human editors so as with most things in an algorithmic setting, the end user settles on what they are given and, in most cases, probably don’t know how the information was chosen, just that it was.

Google News has experimented with a feature called Editors Picks but have now made it an official part of the offering.

Veterans Administration Encourages Social Media
On Tuesday, the Department of Veterans Affairs issued a social media policy directive that highly encourages VA employees to use social media tools to interact with the public, NextGov reports.

VA currently has more than 100 Facebook pages, more than 50 Twitter feeds, two blogs, a YouTube channel and a Flickr page. The department expects to have an active Facebook page and Twitter account for all 152 of its medical centers by the end of this year.

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Save time by using RSS feeds
Do you start your morning by visiting numerous websites to find the latest information and updates? Do you find it annoying trying to remember lots of different log in names, user names and passwords? RSS feeds can help you eliminate this time consuming process.

Save Time By Using RSS Feeds

Apps for News Junkies
RSS technology is currently only being used by a minority of internet users to create a personally-tailored news ticker, but the development of advanced news apps specifically designed for mobile devices means the situation is changing.

It is impossible to control the information flood from the internet without some technological help. News readers aggregate syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs and podcasts, which can be subscribed to with the help of RSS

Apps for News Junkies

Tool to Create an RSS feed for Twitter
To make things easier we have created these forms which will generate Twitter RSS feeds for profiles, Twitter lists, and searches.

Generate an RSS Feed for a Twitter user

40 Fast Facts on Twitter
Everyone from Lady Gaga to flacks at General Motors and the kid next door uses the service, which boasts over 200 million registered users and a gaudy valuation that by one estimate is around $8 billion, or $57 million per space in its 140-character messages. Companies that lack a well-planned Twitter strategy are missing out on prime customer intelligence, and forsaking a powerful megaphone of their own. But how did the hashtag and the Fail Whale go from #obscure to #ubiquitous so quickly?

40 Twitter Fast Facts

Liquida
Liquida is a news portal that allows you to submit your news articles and have people rate, comment and share your content over the web and on major social networks.

FeedDude
FeedDude - Enter a URL and automatically generate an RSS feed for the page.

PlusFeed
PlusFeed is a simple service that provides an RSS feed of any Google+ users public posts. Simply find the unique number at the end of their profile URL, and then add it to the PlusFeeds URL.

Competitive Intelligence
Some companies compete by getting into the minds of their competitors. Competitive Intelligence is the process of collecting information about competitors in a competitive environment. These tips and tricks will help marketers better understand competitive intelligence, and how to effectively compete in their marketplace.

Competitive Intelligence

Google+
News reports Friday said Google Plus, the Web-giants answer to Facebook, added 10 million users in two, limited weeks of operation, making it increasingly likely that those of us who try to stay current with social media will have One More Darn Thing To Do Every Day.

Google Plus RSS Feeds
RSS feeds are not officially supported by Google Plus yet, that is bad if you want to follow a specific user on the new social networking site. Sure, you could add the user to a circle to read all messages on the Google Plus website, or visit the stream of that user directly to access the new messages.

Both options are not really that comfortable, especially if you do not hang out 24-7 on Google Plus. The alternative? You could try a service that turns a stream into an RSS feed.

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FoxNews Twitter Account Hacked
The Secret Service said Monday it will investigate the hacking of Foxs political Twitter account over updates claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.

Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie says the law enforcement agency whose job it is to protect the president will conduct a probe of the false postings and that we will conduct the appropriate follow up.

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Importance of Having an RSS Feed
What is the biggest advantage of having RSS feeds? Well they can increase traffic; more specifically, the number of regular visitors will increase as they are integral to the success of the website in the long run.

Importance of RSS Feeds

Blog Lovin
Bloglovin helps you keep track of the blogs you read by letting you know when they update.

Create RSS Reader Using Google API
Creating Own RSS Reader Using Google Feed API I think every one faced with the task of connecting RSS feeds to your website, you can search and find some ready solutions, but also you can write your own script and that will do it too.

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KindleFeeder
Kindlefeeder is a service for Amazon Kindle owners that lets you aggregate your favorite feeds and have them delivered to your Kindle in a convenient, easy-to-navigate format. Kindlefeeder also lets you save individual webpages and have them delivered to your Kindle along with your feeds.

Tips To Keep Your RSS Reading Under Control
2 . Use Folders To Organize your Reading List
If you are not using folders and have all the sources stacked up one after another on the left sidebar, you are wasting a lot of time.

3. Forget Alphabetical Sorting And Sort Items By Priority
Google reader automatically sorts your feed items in Alphabetical order, which is not very useful.

Good Tips to Keep Feed Reading Under Control

Need Sound Effects for Podcasts?
You can find a variety of sound effects that can be added to podcasts at Digital Sound Effects.

RSSInclude
RSSInclude - Convert RSS to HTML, RSS to PHP and RSS to Javascript. Embed Fresh RSS Feed Content on Your Website or Facebook Page. With the rssinclude.com RSS Reader Widget you can publish news feeds on your website, blog or facebook page quickly and easily!

FeedLooks
FeedLook check your Twitter feed and favorite blogs in an uncluttered email-like interface.

How Not to Lose RSS Subscribers
RSS has become a useful tool when it comes to getting your posts to your subscribers, but those people will quickly leave if you are not giving them what they ask for. You can use the three tips below to help you get those subscribers to remain subscribers.

How Not to Lose RSS Suscribers

Government 2.0
Federal Government agencies have widely embraced social media and Web 2.0 tools in the wake of the Government 2.0 Taskforce report, documents released by the Australian Government Information Management Office show.

Almost 50 Federal agencies now have Facebook pages, some in the form of official pages for an agency and others in the form of specific public campaigns such as anti-depression initiative BeyondBlue and youth mental health initiative Headspace.

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Benefits of Shopping Online
Why buy online? Why not buy online? Have you ever considered the pros and cons to shopping at a retail store vs shopping online? Lets take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing online...

Advantages Of Shopping Online...

1. Saves Time

If you already know what you are looking for, shopping online can save you a significant amount of time. With just a few clicks of the mouse, you can place your order and move on to other things.

Benefits of Shopping Online

Create Ego Search Feeds to Track Brands
Create ego search feeds to track your online brand.

Blog Promotion Tips
There are a wide variety of things you can do in regard to blog promotion. Here are just a few...

1. Optimize

Optimize the blog using standard search engine optimization techniques, so that it performs well in the organic rankings of the various search engines.

Blog Promotion Tips

Subscribe to RSS on Facebook
Ever since it was launched in 2004, Facebook has undoubtedly changed and evolved to the benefit of its users, improving privacy and features, as well as becoming more and more stable. The latest enhancement deals with embedding a Subscribe via RSS option to Pages.

5 Ways to Use RSS on Google
1. Personalize Your Feed

You can easily customize your content to the point of complete preferential options. You start by simply selecting your location and language preferences at the bottom of the main page, but you can build it up further from there. The main RSS feed for Google News will use the selected language and location to provide you with regularly updated stories from your surrounding area. This is a quick and easy way to keep in touch with what is happening through all local news sources.

2. Subscribe by Category

If need to extend your range beyond your local sources, you can also navigate by category. For example, if you are interested in a specific topic, like health or technology, you can go to the About Feeds area on Google News main page to get a rundown of what is offered. By selecting the categories you are interested in, you can subscribe to their feed allowing you greater access to relevant sources. Since Google regularly features articles from many fantastic sources, you will surely see all major ones available for any genre.

5 Ways to Use RSS on Google

Follow Us on Twitter
We have a new Twitter account follow us @RSSSpecs

Video Use Jumps 85 Percent
As broadband capacity increases so does the demand for visual material and video. And while funny videos of cats and babies might seem to be top of the list, the use of video content to cover news stories by online media websites has jumped by a third in the last year to 85 percent. They are increasing the use of in-house and externally developed video content to support their online reporting – source: 2011 Web Influencers Survey

FeedWind
FeedWind is a RSS feed widget. Simply copy & paste the snippet of code to embed into your web page.

FeedsAPI
Another HTML to RSS tool - FeedsAPI is a web page content extraction tool that tries, and usually succeeds in, separating actual content from other web page elements

Why Did Facebook Disable RSS?
Facebook quietly began to publish content via RSS early in 2010. At the time, we praised the move because it really made it useful to keep up with those pages we followed.

And yet, Facebook has always been inconsistent around the benefits of allowing users to subscribe via RSS to the site, going as far as shutting down applications that converted content from the social network into digestible streams suited for RSS.

Now it seems that RSS on Facebook is no more.

ShowRSS
Get tv shows in an RSS feed using ShowRSS.

How to Find Your RSS Feed for Twitter
Here are some tips to finding your RSS feed on Twitter.

Advantages of RSS
What are some advantages of RSS?

RSS is like Tivo for your computer!

    * Your feeds are in one place and there are no ads or pop-ups.
    * You can scan the list of headlines to see what you want to read without wasting a lot of time.
    * Better than using bookmarks because your personal feeds are available from any computer that has Internet access.
    * Content from RSS feeds can be inserted into Web pages.

Advantages of RSS

How to Import an RSS Feed to Facebook
If you keep an outside blog, you can import it to your Facebook account using an RSS feed. By importing an RSS feed, you can easily add notes to your profile without repeating your posts on several Web sites.

Import an RSS feed to Facebook

Need to Create an RSS Feed?
Are you trying to create an RSS feed? Use FeedForAll software with a built in wizard to quickly and easily create RSS feeds.

Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to 3 Years
An Egyptian military tribunal has convicted a blogger of insulting the army after he publicized reports of abuses by the military, and sentenced him to three years in prison, human rights groups said Monday.

The military court issued the sentence against Maikel Nabil Sanad, 26, a day earlier in the absence of his lawyers, according to a statement by seven Cairo-based rights groups.

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Question and Answer Websites
Question and answer websites have popped up all over the Internet. These interactive sites are designed to connect individuals, and help them get answers to questions. We have compiled a list of some of the more popular Question & Answers websites...

Question and Answer Websites

Feed2Mobile
Chances are, your Blog or website has an RSS feed, but your content is still unadapted for mobile devices. Feed2Mobile will simply let you create a mobile version of your content and make it available to mobile visitors

Twitequette
Philosophies regarding social media networks, such as Twitter, can vary greatly. But similar to email, an unspoken etiquette has emerged for these social websites as well. The etiquette for these social sites does not consist of hard and fast rules, but is simply a list of guidelines for posting. The following is a set of Twitter etiquette guidelines, but can also be applied to other social networks...

Twitequette

Create Search Feeds in Bing
To create an RSS feed in Bing, conduct a search, and at the end of the URL from the search results screen add the following text: &format=rss

IBM RSS Feeds
The IBM Press Room lets you create custom RSS feeds that combine several categories. To create a custom feed, select categories below

RSS2Java
RSS2Java source for easily adding RSS feeds to your website. The The service is free of charge. A JavaScript code will be generated and needs to be plugged into your website.

Filtering RSS Feeds
Information overload is less about having too much information and more about not having the right tools and techniques to filter and process information to find the pieces that are most relevant for you. This presentation will focus on showing you a variety of tips and techniques to get you started down the path of looking at RSS feeds in a completely different light.

Filtering RSS Feeds

Malatya New RSS Directory
Malatya is a new rss directory for blogs and RSS feeds.

New Feed Directory - FeedFairy
FeedFairy.com is an easy to use and free RSS feed directory. Just submit your RSS feed and FeedFairy.com will publish and distribute it for free.

Pros and Cons for Web Templates
Small retail businesses who are making the move to an online presence may feel overwhelmed by the process of creating a website. Web templates can often help make the process less painful for a small business. To assist webmasters in the template vs custom design decision, we have outlined the pros and cons to each...

Pros and Cons for Web Templates

80 Podcasts for the Classroom
Podcasts offer a great way to learn and stay on top of just about any topic. In the classroom, students can listen to podcasts as a group and add their own comments and questions to the program. Make podcasts an integral part of your classroom experience with the help of this collection of podcasts.

80 Podcasts for the Classroom

How to Submit Podcasts to iTunes Music Store
Here are some helpful tips regarding how to get your podcasts listed in the iTunes Music Store...

How to Submit Podcasts to iTunes

Product Recalls Via RSS
Whenever you buy a brand new product right when it hits the market, the safety of that product is always a concern. That is particularly true when the product, like childrens toys or a new car, can have a direct impact on the health and safety of your own family. Rather than trying to constantly check for any recall announcements for every single product you’ve bought that could pose a safety concern if it malfunctions, it is much easier to just sign up for product recall RSS feeds and then just keep an eye out for any recall alerts that might affect you.

The 8 Best Sources For Product Recall RSS Updates

14 Tips to Make the Most of RSS Feeds
As a busy digital marketer, I live or die by feeds. Feeds keep me up to date and push my content, fast. And as a blogger, I similarly depend on feeds to keep me informed and spread influence.

To be successful you need to be more than simply informed -- you need to be a thought leader and agenda-setter rather than another voice in the echo chamber. But feeds are at a disadvantage on this front, as a headline that appears on a feed must have already been written about.

The goal then is to use feeds, as quickly as possible, to ensure that you're among the first writing about a topic.

14 Tips to Make the Most of Feeds

Digg Blocks RSS Submissions
Diggs unpopular version 4 redesign last summer has put a big damper on the sites traffic, but the Digg team has come around and started to make changes that are helping to bring users back. The latest smart move: banning RSS feed submissions. No longer can every single post from a site be auto-submitted to Digg via RSS.

Digg Bans RSS Submissions

Splush
Splush enables editors to share with their audience, real-time updated content from partners, friends or favorites information sources. A dynamic blogroll and multimedia access make RSS Feeds accessible to all without any technical constraints.

Splush is also FeedAds : the first ads service of sponsored links 2.0 where traditional statistic links are replaced by more attractive ones updated in real time, with direct link to content and multimedia.

Looking for RSS Tools or Podcasting Tools?
Check out these two websites for RSS Tools and Podcasting Tools.

We also have this huge list of rss tools on the RSS Specifications website.

Forum Etiquette
The Internet has become a highly interactive medium. In order to participate in discussion forums and newsgroups, it is important to be familiar with standard and accepted Internet forum etiquette. Here are some tips to help make your forum participation more productive and beneficial...

1. Terms-Of-Service

Read the forum rules and terms-of-service before you begin posting. This way, you can avoid having your introduction to the forum being an accidental breaking of a rule or other misconduct.

Forum Etiquette

Dapper
Dapper is a tool that enables users to create update feeds for their favorite sites and website owners to optimize and distribute their content in new ways.

Importance Of Good Headlines For Feed Subscribers
Contrary to what you may think, people who subscribe to your feed aren’t necessarily reading your articles. In most cases your posts will be competing with a large amount of content, some of which may be very similar to your own.

I do almost all of my reading through a feed reader and there is a habit I’ve picked up which I think is symptomatic of most feed subscribers. With so many new articles popping up in my feed reader every day I can not possibly read all of them to completion. I tend to prioritize by title, then skim a little, and if my curiosity is peaked, the article gets my full attention.

Increase RSS Subscribers

30 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers
Before creeping into the ways, you must also remember that your content must be really good as Content is the King. It is recommended to read the following few posts which will help you to shape your self in terms of contents and its promotions,

Increase RSS Subscribers

RSSMotron
RSSMotron is an RSS feed directory.

RSS Screen Saver
RSSMore is a free rss screensaver that lets you subscribe to any number of RSS/XML feeds and view them in your rss screen saver.

Digital Sound Effects
Digital Sound Effects is a new portal that contains thousands of sound effects. The Digital Sound Effects collection contains royalty free sound effects that can be used as introductions, extros or a background in any digital audio or video productions including podcasts. The Digital Sound Effects website contains a wide array of sound effects that range from realistic car crashes with screeching brakes to soothing nature sound effects.

Each sound effect is available as a download in a zip file. The zip file contains the sound effect in an MP3, Wav, and WMA format. All effects contained on digital-sound-effects.com are all royalty free which means they can be downloaded and used without the broadcaster having to pay royalties for the use of the sound effect. The broadcaster or publisher pays a single fee and are able to use effects in any capacity that they choose.The sound effects can be used on websites, podcast productions or in any other format.

Digital Sound Effects

Three Ways to Prevent People From Unsubscribing
Getting traffic to your blog and turning your visitors into loyal readers requires a lot more than just writing new blog posts. What you must do is create an environment so people want to return, and if you can turn them into RSS subscribers, then you will be that much more powerful. Sometimes when we make our content pages we can easily look sight of the fact that we are not really making them for us, we are making them for our visitors and site readers. Ok, we want you to get some RSS subscribers because it can be very helpful to have them, and we would like for you to continue reading so you can find out some great approaches for doing that.

3 Ways to Stop People From Unsubscribing

DelightfulBlogs
Delightfulblogs is a human-reviewed blog directory where you can promote your blog to get more traffic.

Looking to Submit RSS Feeds?
Are you looking for a tool to automate the submission of RSS feeds? Checkout RSS Submit

RSSoogle
RSSoogle a search engine for RSS feeds.

Tips for Blog Posting
Coming up with ideas for new blog posts on a regular basis can be a challenge, even for the most prolific writers. Experience shows that readers tend to favor certain types of posts more than others. Here are some popular types of blog posts that you might want to use for those times when inspiration simply does not strike.

Tips for Blog Posting

What is Hot What is Not in Technology for 2011
What is Hot
1. Virtual Cloud
2. Mobile Apps
3. Virtual Technology
4. Connectivity
5. Scalability

What is Not
1. Privacy
2. Social Noise
3. Transparency
4. Regulation
5. Land Lines

Read more about What is Hot and What is Not in Technology for 2011

Motivational Quotes of the Day RSS
There are RSS feeds for everything! If the winter doldrums have descended upon you, add motivational quotes to your RSS feeds. Here are some to consider:

Motivational Quotes
Brainy Quote
Goal Setting Quotes

RSS and RSS Readers Alive and Well
I agree:

A brush fire has been swirling through the blogosphere of late over whether RSS is dead, dying, or possibly severely injured and in need of assistance. It seems to have started with a post from UK-based web designer Kroc Camen that got picked up by Hacker News and re-tweeted a lot. The flames were fanned by a blog post from TechCrunch that drove RSS developer Dave Winer into a bit of a Twitter frenzy. But is RSS actually doomed, or even ailing? Not really. Like plenty of other technologies, it is just becoming part of the plumbing of the real-time web.

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RSS Tools for WordPress
Using RSS and Data Migration Tools in WordPress 3

Tutorials for Podcasters to Record Audio
Video tutorials for podcasters to record audio files.

FeedStomper
FeedStomper - Turn an overactive feed that clutters up your RSS reader into a regular, once-a-day summary feed.

RSS2EMail
rss2email is a small Python utility that sends out nicely formatted emails from RSS feed postings. Why would you want such a thing? Well, many people still use email as their primary communications tool and don’t want to be bothered with RSS. Also, if you are on the go and are using a mobile device, it is often easier to be buzzed by push email than it is to configure a mobile RSS reader.

Feed Wind
Generate An Embeddable Widget From RSS Feeds using Feed Wind. You can easily keep in touch with a site through its RSS feed. But what if you want another sites updates to appear on your own blogs or websites?

Trim RSS Feeds
Reminder: New years is a great time to prune your RSS feeds that have grown excessively long!

Best Way to Consume News in 2010
We consumed a lot of news in 2010. But how did we consume it? On your tiny iPhone screen? Hopefully not. The best way to consume news this year was in a socially curated, real-time fashion with big pretty pictures and video.

Best Way to Consume News in 2010

Ten newsroom New Years resolutions for 2011
It is time for our annual list of things your newsroom needs to do online. Some of these are repeats – and that’s because they’re still relevant to many newsrooms. There is no pie in the sky stuff here; just steps you should take that are relatively cheap and painless. Happy New Year from Lost Remote.

1. Build a mobile version of your site.
2. 2. Get an app version of your site.
3. Do a Skype video remote.

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10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress
Lets take a look at 10 useful, yet rather unknown RSS-tricks for WordPress. Each section of the article presents a problem, suggests a solution and provides you with an explanation of the solution, so that you can not just solve some of your RSS-related problems but also understand what you are actually doing. Thus, you can make sure your WordPress theme remains under your control and is not bloated with some obscure source code.

10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress

Methods to Aquire RSS Subscribers
RSS or Really Simple Syndication has become a primary way to gain new subscribers and grow your list. The best way to get a larger RSS subscription base is to follow the three tips below.

There are different kinds of tools you can use to encourage people to subscribe to your RSS feed. Here we are referring to the MyBlogLog Widget and how it can help you increase your subscribers. You would be surprised at the percentages of people who will respond favorably to a request to perform some kind of desired action. There are a number of reasons why they may have not including a lack of knowledge about how to do it, or what they need, etc.

Methods to Aquire RSS

RSS to the Rescue
As a news and media junkie, I love sifting through as many sites as possible to catch up on the latest and juiciest stories, which is why I am always on the hunt to find a place that directs me to good articles.
It is a pain to have more than a few sites open and that’s why I love RSS feeds, especially Google Reader, where I subscribe to 25 publications. Do I have time to read all of them? The simple answer is…no. Still, it is great to be able to go to one place online to sift through top articles from various sources and choose the stories that capture my attention.

RSS to the Rescue

Free RSS Readers for iPad
While you can actually log into Google Reader on your iPad, and follow all your favourite blogs and sites on the go, there is no shortage of free apps that make it much easier to stay up to date on the latest news, while some will even give you offline access.

Free RSS Readers for iPad

RSS Parsing Programs
Collection of RSS Parsing tools.

Gozoof
Gozoof is a blog directory add your blog.

CentiBuzz
Monitor RSS feeds and get emailed when new posts match your keywords with CentiBuzz

Podcasting Bundle
RecordForAll and FeedForAll makes it simple to record audio files, layer audio files, edit audio files and publish podcast feeds.

Snackr
Snackr is an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window.

8 Creative Ways to Use RSS Feeds
Check out the list of 8 Creative ways to use RSS feeds

Web Based RSS Aggregators
These are sites that aggregate feeds for reading in a browser. Here is a collection of RSS Aggregators

Ways to Increase RSS Subscribers
Everyone wants more feed subscribers and for new bloggers, it can be a challenge to figure out how to make that happen. I hope the tips below help you to increase your regular readers and have some fun along the way!

Ways to Increase Subscribers

RSS Tricks for WordPress
RSS is one of the core feature of WordPress and every other blogging platform. It is very useful because your readers keep track of your blog updates mostly by using RSS. In this article, we will show you some of the most useful RSS hacks, tips, tricks, and snippets for WordPress.

RSS for WordPress

Power of RSS for 21st Century Educators
Continuing the Technology in Modern Foreign Languages Series, Joe Dale outlines the many possibilities RSS has to offer educators, not only in terms of teaching and learning, but also research and professional development.

Power of RSS for 21st Century Educators

Optimizing Optimization, Part 2: Off-Page Optimization
Webmasters have far less control over the off-page optimization factors than they do the on-page optimization factors. Off-page optimization does, however, influence how a website ranks in search results, so it should not be ignored.

Use the following off-page optimization techniques to improve your website search engine ranking: Optimizing Optimization, Part 2: Off-Page Optimization

Blog Collector
Blog Collector is an RSS directory that allows you to grab an url to submit and add it to a directory where submitted blogs from all over the world are present All blogs you submit have to be in English.

How to Make Separate RSS Feed for Each Category in WordPress
Often times bloggers wonder how to make separate RSS feed for their category. Because sometimes your user only visits your website for the design category, but you have ten other categories that the user is not interested in. How can you offer them a separate RSS Feed. In this tutorial, we will show you how you can do that.

How to Make Separate RSS Feed for Each Category in WordPress

RSS Buffet
Buffet of RSS feeds including RSS Buffet.

RSS Root
New RSS feed directory called RSS Root.

RSS One
New RSS feed directory named RSS One.

RSS Tricks
RSS is one of the core feature of WordPress and every other blogging platform. It is very useful because your readers keep track of your blog updates mostly by using RSS. In this article, we will show you some of the most useful RSS hacks, tips, tricks, and snippets for WordPress.

RSS Tricks

Internet Offense
If you have no idea what I am talking about, here is a quick recap for you: Cooks Source magazine lifted a bloggers article from the Internet and, when an apology and a donation to the Columbia School of Journalism was requested by the offended blogger, an editor from the magazine responded that the blogger should be grateful for the edit.

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Libraries and RSS Feeds
how libraries can provide news events (opening hours, library talks tutorials, service outrages, changes in policy) as RSS feeds. The benefits of providing news in RSS feeds is obvious basically increased portability as well as ability to filter or merge structured data etc.

Libraries and RSS Feeds

How to add RSS feeds to your Fan Page
There are a number of third-party Facebook applications that allow you to add an RSS-feed tab to your page.

Add RSS to Your Fan Page

Create a Vector RSS Icon
Create a vector RSS Icon graphic with Illustrator.

Feed Translate
FeedTranslate is a new site in alpha testing, simply enter a feed or Website URL, select a language and click the Translate button.

RSS Ghost Icons
RSS Ghost Icons for Halloween

Halloween RSS Feeds
Get the latest Halloween Themed RSS feeds

Haunted House RSS Feed

iTunes Podcasting Tutorial
iTunes podcasting tutorial to create iTunes podcasts.

Huge List of Podcasting Tools
Great list of podcasting tools for managing podcasts.

Technology Has Created Jobs
The technical search giant, Google, alone is the inspiration and sole cause behind the creation of thousands of new businesses. There are now companies dedicated solely to Pay-Per-Click campaign management. Thousands of individuals and companies now make money through search engine optimization and outsourcing their services to improve website rankings, specifically to see that a website ranks well in Googles organic search results. There are now software applications that can determine what keywords to use in optimizing a website for search engine rankings, and other software programs that assess and evaluate website traffic and popularity. These products and businesses were all brought to fruition as a result of Googles Internet search domination and technical stature.

Technology Has Spawned Industries

Hacking and Twitter
Generating a news frenzy usually reserved for Apple product launches, pranksters turned Twitter into wormville on Tuesday. The fast-spreading exploits proved two things: Twitter is undoubtedly now a mainstream service, and it has joined the ranks of big-time tech companies as a target for hackers.

Security experts interviewed by CNET say the messaging service has done a fair job of protecting itself so far, but will have to be more careful with its coding if it wants to be trusted for news aggregation, integration on corporate sites, and as a useful international communication tool.

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Social Revolution
The collapse of Bloglines has ignited discussions about whether RSS readers have a future in the online news world. It is important to note that RSS technology is not going anywhere, as it still makes up the backbone of web development today. However, are consumers willing to use RSS readers to sift through huge amounts of information when Facebook and Twitter provide a more accessible and more social news experience?

Social Revolution

Create Ego Search Feeds for Reverse SEO
Ego searches are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news portals for mentions of your company, product, competitors or other specific keywords. Conducting ego searches not only allows  you to stay informed, but also allows you to maintain a strategic advantage over competing companies. A number of new Internet services are freely available that make these  ego searches painless and easy.

Ego Search Feeds

Album Reminder
Never miss a new music album release! Album Reminder notifies you of new music releases of your favorite artists via email & RSS.

RSS to GeoConverter
RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. GeoRSS is a way to encode location in an RSS feed.

The GeoNames RSS to GeoRSS Converter reads the entries of an RSS feed and searches the GeoNames Database to find a location for the entry text. If a relevant location is found, its latitude and longitude are added to the RSS feed using the GeoRSS encoding.

7 Common Web Mistakes
Many webmasters work very hard on their websites, but they often overlook glaringly-obvious mistakes that may be costing them sales or potential customers. Here are what we consider the Top 7 such mistakes...

1. JavaScript Navigation
Many website visitors now have JavaScript turned off or disabled in their web browsers, due to ever-increasing security concerns. If you are using JavaScript in your navigation menus, some potential customers may be unable to navigate your website. More often than not, this means that potential customers will click away and turn to a competitor. In addition to avoiding JavaScript navigation, you should also avoid using JavaScript in the ordering process. Ordering systems that require JavaScript to function may also result in your customers being unable to purchase, and going somewhere else instead!

7 Mistakes that Can Cost You Money

Small Business Blogs and RSS
Two of the best and powerful promoting tools for small business today are blogs and RSS feeds. They are simple to set up and offer many benefits for the small business owner. You need to create an extensive network of contacts to make the most monetary proceeds and accolades from the small business trade industry related to your small business.

Small Business Blogs and RSS

Enticing Purchasers - Closing the Sale
Compelling customers to take the final step from browsing to purchasing is not always an easy transition. Marketers and entrepreneurs who have studied purchasing habits have found that the following enticements can help encourage potential customers to take the final step to purchase...

Enticing Purchasers - Closing the Sale

Bloglines Closing Down
The popular web-based RSS reader and news aggregator Bloglines will discontinue service on Friday, October 1. The Ask.com team that operates the site has essentially said that social media sites like Twitter and Facebook killed it.

Bloglines Closing Down

The Farmers Almanac has RSS Feeds
Time-tested and generation approved, the Farmers Almanac is a compendium of knowledge on weather, gardening, cooking, remedies, managing your household, preserving the earth, and more. Anyone can give you advice — Farmers Almanac goes beyond todays experts and enlightens you with generations of perception, experience, and common sense.

Follow the Farmers Almanac via RSS

How to Subscribe to An RSS Feed
There are generally two different kinds of tools that allow visitors to subscribe to RSS feeds. These tools are known as aggregators, or RSS news readers. As the content of an RSS feed changes, the RSS reader or aggregator will update itself automatically and display the new RSS feed items.

How to Subscribe to an RSS Feed

Weather Alerts Via RSS feeds
Experimental XML Feeds and Web Displays of Watches, Warnings, and Advisories

US Census RSS Feeds
The United States Census Bureau RSS Feeds

10 Powerful Points Proving Necessity Of RSS
When I first stumbled across RSS syndication while surfing the net, it piqued my curiosity to the point where I could not help myself, but, to look into this new form of site promotion further.

What I found out about this new technology will absolutely change the way you keep in touch with your subscribers and or readers, in many ways, for years to come.

Just to keep up with the times I recently built a webpage for my website specifically to promote my RSS feed in order to take on new subscribers, and… most important of all, to put this new technology to the test.

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FeedSifter
FeedSifter filters RSS feeds.

Social Media Advice
Before you do, you need to know that being a user of social media, and understanding its strategic applications for your PR, marketing, and communications initiatives, are two dramatically different skill sets.

Some mistakes to avoid:

No. 1: Diving in without a strategic plan

Don't start podcasting, blogging, tweeting, friending on Facebook, and posting YouTube videos until you know what your messages are, who will manage them, who your audience is, and how they and you are going to benefit from the content and relationships.

No. 2: Not having a social media policy

Your social media policy needs to outline how employees behave in the online universe during and outside of work. It should include education on style preferences and confidentiality. All messaging coming from employees should be aligned with your company's values and brand.

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250 RSS Feeds for Designers
Grab the OPML file or each RSS feed all for designers.

RSSMapper
Create your own embeddable RSS locator applications! rssmapper analyses RSS feeds and derives location information for every update. See where things are happening, and easily share your maps by adding them to your website in just a few clicks.

Accuweather RSS Feeds
Follow the weather via RSS feeds. Here you will find feeds for not only current conditions and weather forecasts for more than three million locations worldwide, but also for a variety of topical blogs, and global warming and entertainment news.

Are Displaying RSS Feeds Ethical?
Displaying RSS feeds on your website a.k.a. syndicating is an easy way to get an automated stream of fresh content for your site. But is it ethical?

RSS Chrome Extension
This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading and upon finding one will display an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe. Google RSS Extension

FeedWind
FeedWind is a RSS feed widget. Simply copy & paste the snippet of code to embed into your web page.

Present Content Different Ways
Webmasters and marketers spend an inordinate amount of time building quality content that relates to their products or services. Yet the vast majority of these marketers fail to fully capitalize on the content they were so careful to create.

Webmasters can easily reformat their web content and present it to their customers in a variety of different ways. And different formats can be promoted through different channels. The different formats will often appeal to new and different audiences. For example: a video explanation may resonate with a younger technical customer, while an eBook in PDF format may appeal an older customer.

Present Content Different Ways

RSS2Post
RSS2Post automatically post your favorite RSS digest on your wordpress blog

ShowRSS
Select the shows you want to follow and add them to your list.Get your feed address and subscribe using ShowRSS.

A Way Around Censorship
A new tool will join the censorship circumvention arsenal this September.

Feed Over E-mail restricted content, in the form of RSS feeds, via email. The tool can not help a user browse censored sites or obtain large files. But its creator, Sho Ho, says that FOE could be particularly hard to block and could work in concert with other circumvention technologies. Ho, who is a researcher with the federal governments Broadcasting Board of Governors, gave a talk about FOE yesterday at Defcon, a hacker conference that takes place annually in Las Vegas.

Make an RSS Widget
If you want to get started on a new widget, the first thing to check out is Apples sample code. There you can find great sample widgets that will give you a good foundation to build upon.

For my Make widget, I wanted to display a live RSS feed from the MAKE blog, one clickable line per blog entry.

RSS Footer
RSS Footer is one of those free WordPress plugins, which provide a lot of value for your blog. Thanks to this plugin you can add an extra link back to your blog in your feed. You can choose whether to display the link at the beginning of the feed or at the end and configure the display of the link.

NPR Podcasts
Use this tool to build a custom podcast of various topics, musicians, personalities and NPR programs.
NPR Podcasts

Seagate External Network HDD Sends RSS Feeds
Seagate External Network HDD Sends RSS Feeds

Better Ways to Consume RSS
From WebWorkerDaily

In my recent post about using Harvest to track my time, I discovered that I was spending too much of my time consuming information. As a result, I’ve been working on ways to further increase my efficiency, starting with some Twitter efficiency improvements, and I thought that a post about becoming more efficient at consuming blogs and other news content via RSS would be a good next step.

Improve Efficiency in Reading RSS Feeds

RSS Tags
Details of RSS tags and elements.

RSS Scripts Directory Updated
RSS2HTML - free PHP script for displaying RSS feeds as HTML web pages.

FutureRSS - PHP script for displaying only current RSS feed items.

RSS2HTML Cache - module to speed up the display of RSS feed items.

RSSmesh - merge multiple RSS feeds into a single feed.

SQL2RSS - create RSS feeds from an MySQL database.

RSS2HTML Pro -  expands the functionality of RSS2HTML by allowing publishers and webmasters to dynamically create an index of feed items.

RSS2SQL - create database from RSS feeds.

RSS Filter - create filters for RSS feeds.

The Use of Color in Web Design
Color psychology is a phrase used to describe the effect that color  has on human behavior. The psychology of color is certainly not a new concept. In fact, it has been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Colors tend to carry non-verbal and subliminal messages, and the color spectrum evokes different emotions and physiological responses in people. The reactions people have to specific colors may be influenced by many factors, including their culture, location, gender, or even their age.

The Emotion of Color in Website Design

Beginning to Style Your RSS Feed
Given the wide range of exposure surrounding RSS, I think it is really important to handle your feed in a way that will be usable by as many people as possible. One way to accomplish that is to apply a bit of structure and style to your feed in case an inexperienced user were to somehow find their way to your RSS via their browser.

Applying CSS to RSS

Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators
Fifty page booklet with information about how educators can use Web 2.0.

Medical New and RSS Health Feeds
Medical and Health RSS news feeds.

Why Use RSS Readers?
What I learned from that discussion is that while the RSS Reader market is indeed in decline, there are still a number of compelling use cases for RSS Readers. Not to mention new tools worth checking out. So in this more optimistic post, I list 5 reasons why you should continue to use RSS Readers.

My conclusions in the previous post still stand: 1) Google now dominates what's left of the RSS Reader market; and 2) RSS reading is a very fragmented experience circa 2009-2010 due to Twitter, Facebook, start pages like Netvibes, Firefox bookmarks, and more. However, a lot of commenters wrote that they still use RSS Readers each and every day.

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Domain Name Suggestions
Innovative, memorable, and compelling domain names are becoming more and more difficult to come up with. The following tools can help webmasters find great domain names for their online businesses....

Domain Name Suggestions

Buy, Sell, Value Websites
So, you have built an empire on the Internet, and now it is time to move on. Well OK, maybe its not a full-blown empire, but it has taken substantial blood, sweat and tears to create, and you want to make sure you get a reasonable amount of money for all your efforts. Determining the value of a website can be tricky, because a number of factors can play a role. Factors involved in determining the resale value of a website include...

Buy, Sell or Value a Website

Feed2Mobile
Feed2Mobile is a free service which offers a bridge between Web-based and Mobile content.

FeedMarklet
Feedmarklet gives you your own RSS feed instantly, with no sign up required. Adding content to your feed is a snap- just browse the web as you normally would, and when you find something interesting, press the bookmarklet button in your browser bookmark bar to immediately add the page you are on to your feed.

Fail the Whale
Twitter has been experiencing a number of fail whales since Tuesday, a service-outage problem the micro-blogging site attributed to a system-side issue.

Twitters lack of reliability is going to lose them followers.

California Launches News Aggregator
California has launched a news hub that, in real time, compiles and updates its many agencies Twitter, RSS and YouTube news feeds.

The news aggregator site, unveiled Friday, July 2, collects in one place content from more than 200 department and agency sources. With more official sources being added daily, the news hub scoops real-time feeds from agencies and already has 83 Twitter accounts, 40 YouTube channels and nearly 100 RSS feeds, an Office of the State Chief Information Officer press release said.

Top 10 Small Business Mistakes
Many small businesses make mistakes, and smart entrepreneurs will learn from the mistakes of others. With that in mind, we have compiled a list of some common mistakes that small business owners often make....

Top 10 Small Business Mistakes

Twitter Mumbles
Twitter is a hit in Japan, succeeding where other social networking imports like Facebook have foundered as millions mumble — the translation of tweet — and give mini-blogging a distinctly Japanese flavor.

5 Tips to Improve the RSS User Experience
Do not assume that just because your blog is perfect, your RSS reader experience will be the same. A few things to double-check to help your content and its promotion be that much better:

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National Weather Alerts via RSS
NOAA weather alerts via an RSS Feed.

Encoding RSS Feeds
This article explains how to encode characters in an RSS feed. Course the article is only relevant if you are manually making the RSS feed, almost all the RSS software applications will encode the characters for you.

How to Create a Password Protected Feed
Tips for creating a Password Protected RSS Feed?

No Blogs for Chinese Soliders!
Chinese servicemen are banned from opening blogs on the Internet for confidentiality concern, according to revised regulations of the Peoples Liberation Army

WordPress RSS Footer Plugin
RSS Footer is a plugin lets you add an extra line of content to articles in your feed, defaulting to Post from:  and then a link back to your blog, with your blogs name as its anchor text.

WordPress RSS Image Widget
The WordPress RSS Image Widget uses PHPThumb to automatically generate good-looking thumbnails from RSS feed images inside your template.

Ping List
Ping List of services allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated.

FeedZero RSS Filtering
The core of FeedZero.com is an adaptive filtering mechanism that learns what information you're interested in - and not interested in. It uses the same bayesian technology as industry-leading spam filtering software to effectively classify incoming information in a way that makes it easy for you to keep up with the information that you want to know about.

All you have to do is sign up, subscribe to some RSS feeds, and then start letting us know which items you like and do not like.

Scientific American RSS Feeds
A variety of Science RSS feeds from Scientific American

10 Ways Libraries Can Use RSS
Because using RSS is about sharing and delivering information, it seems perfectly natural for libraries to adopt this technology for library services. Here are my 10 ways for how libraries can use RSS.

10 Ways Libraries Can Use RSS

Creating a Custom RSS Feed with PHP and MySQL
Create a custom RSS feed using PHP and mySQL using SQL2RSS.

Why Use RSS Feeds?
Video tutorial explains Why Use RSS feeds?

TwitterLive
TwitterLive forwards blog posts to Twitter.

9 Tips To Increase Your RSS Subscriber Count
Once you have settled into the rhythm of writing your blog, one of the most important steps is to begin accumulating subscribers. Your RSS subscribers will probably turn out to be your blogs most valuable asset in the long run. Here are a few tips to help you achieve this more effectively.

9 Tips to Increase RSS Subscribers

Nasa RSS Feeds
Collection of NASA RSS Feeds

Ins and Outs of Internet Sitemaps
Sitemaps are simply road maps that search engines can use to navigate their way through the various parts and sections of a website. The sitemap essentially tells the search engines where the various pages are located on the site. This is particularly important for websites that have multi-level navigation, which automated spiders might have difficulty with.

Ins and Outs of Sitemaps

345 Feed Icons
345 RSS feed icons for RSS feeds.

FeedSqueezer
FeedSqueezer web services platform delivers audit-ready analytics, a powerful rules engine and flexible feed and content delivery for all types of feeds, including podcasts and other downloadable media, they are inviting sign-ups for beta.

Atom2RSS
Atom2RSS Converter - This tool will let you convert your blogger atom feed into an RSS2 feed that can be imported into WordPress.

Universal Feed Parser
Universal Feed Parser - Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python.

FeedX
FeedX is a universal XML feed reader for MODx. Rather than being limited to specific formats, the snippet is capable of parsing and rendering nearly any XML format including RSS, RDF, Atom, you name it. In addition to functioning as a snippet, FeedXs class may be called by 3rd party snippets plugins or modules as a simple method of retrieving cached and parsed XML data.

FeedWind
FeedWind is a RSS feed widget. Simply copy & paste the snippet of code to embed into your web page. It's free and ready to use without having to register!

Feedzira
Feedzirra - A Ruby feed library built for speed

RSS Like to RSS Love
At some point, however, I got serious about setting up a listening post so that I could monitor how well my blog posts were being picked up and linked to by other bloggers. As a result, I added my own blog to my reader and some Google Alerts for my own name and blog. I also added to the reader a couple of sites that could track links to my blog, such as Ice Rocket.

RSS Like to RSS Love

MyTuneRSS
MyTunesRSS allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library or any simple watch folder over a local network or even the internet. You can access your music from all over the world using a simple web browser. The user interface lets you search for titles or browse your whole library by album, artist or genre. You can access your iTunes playlists or create new ones directly in MyTunesRSS.

Buy, Sell and Value Websites
So, you've built an empire on the Internet, and now it is time to move on. Well OK, maybe its not a full-blown empire, but it has taken substantial blood, sweat and tears to create, and you want to make sure you get a reasonable amount of money for all your efforts. Determining the value of a website can be tricky, because a number of factors can play a role. Factors involved in determining the resale value of a website include...

Buy, Sell and Value a Website

RSSPump
RSSPump is a new javascript news ticker.

TwitterFeed
Feed your blog to Twitter and Facebook using TwitterFeed.

RSS Subscription Extension
Find the details of the RSS Subscription Extension by Google

Why Publish Full RSS Feeds instead of Partial Summary Feeds
Should you publish full text RSS feeds or only summary?

The site has been around for over two years now but I have always abstained from publishing full content RSS feeds for two selfish reasons (or you can call them fears) outlined below:

Why Publish Full RSS Feeds instead of Partial Summary Feeds

160 Web Feeds for Designers and Developers
Lists are all related to web design, graphic design, development, CSS, HTML, WordPress, business and freelancing, creativity and inspiration.

160 Feeds for Developers and Designers

RSS Replay
RSS Replay does exactly what it says! It replays the RSS feed, one item at a time, using an interval you specified. Why? Well, you just found an awesome feed, and you want to read through the archive, but you do not have the time to consume it all in one big glut. Instead, you can use RSS Replay to deliver the archive into your reader, one article at time.

RSS Replay

WiseStamps Feed Tab
With WiseStamps Feed tab you can now easily insert your favorite personalized feed, and it will automatically update in your email signatures. Share your latest blog posts, bookmarks, videos, pictures, events and so much more…

25+ best Feed ideas to empower your Email Signature

RSS Graffiti
RSS Graffiti is a fun little Facebook application that is meant to take the fuss out of keeping your Facebook friends and fans updated with the latest news from your other sites. RSS Graffiti periodically checks the RSS/Atom feeds that you specify and posts any new entries it finds to the Facebook Walls that you specify.

You can get any feed written on any wall. In fact, multiple feeds to multiple walls. You choose the combination.

Five Filters
FiveFilters RSS to PDF. Convert RSS feeds to PDF files.

RSS Lists
Here are some lists of lists that will be useful to webmasters:
Free Places to Submit RSS Feeds
RSS Tools
Podcasting Tools

Craig2Mail
Craig2Mail - Deliver any RSS feed to your email!

100 Engineering RSS Feeds
when you are busy with college courses, work, family and a personal life, it can be hard to keep up with the latest news in your field of expertise. These blogs can help make it a little easier, however, providing easily accessible knowledge about a wide range of engineering specialties. Add a few to your RSS feed and you will stay in the know, no matter how busy your life might get.

100 Best RSS Feeds to Follow Engineering News

Protecting Your Reputation Online
Google is sometimes thought to be the bane of the Internet, and it certainly can be a thorn in the side of search engine marketers. Many fail to look beyond the search of today, toward what the implications of indexing and storing information will have on future generations.

Protecting Your Reputation Online

Webmaster Lists!
Here are some lists of lists that will be useful to webmasters:

72 Free Press Release Submission Sites
Free Places to Submit RSS Feeds
RSS Tools
Podcasting Tools

RSSMapper
RSSMapper is a Google Maps mashup that fetches your RSS feed and generates a cool embeddable map. The app reads your RSS feeds, looks for place names and coordinates within the feeds, and then displays anything that can be pinned on the map. Check out RSSMapper

RSS Is a Straightforward Solution
RSS is not just another Internet trend --- it is a way to conquer overload without sacrificing the information. It is an answer to the problem that the Web created: If there is so much information out there, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? RSS is a straightforward solution.

Wall Street Journal RSS Feeds
Follow the Wall Street Journal using RSS feeds.

Podcasting Questions and Answers
Podcasting is an up-and-coming and increasingly popular medium for communication. The following are common questions about podcasting, perfect for those just getting started in podcasting as a communication channel...

Quick Questions About Podcasting

100 Best RSS Feeds for Science
If you are a busy college student who wants a way to keep up with all the latest science news, but also need to find a balance with all your school work and other commitments, then following RSS feeds is a great way to customize and streamline the process. Find feeds that touch on everything from space exploration to sustainability to evolution in this awesome list. Sign up for these informative RSS feeds and you will never miss another science news story again.

100 Top Science RSS Feeds

RSS2HTML PHP Script Updated
There is a new release of RSS2HTML PHP script available. The update addresses an issue with the newest version of PHP version 5.3.

Websites That Changed the Internet
Websites that Changed the Internet the list includes:

Amazon
YouTube
Craigslist
Wikipedia
Facebook
Digg


One that did not make the list surprisingly was eBay!

Twitter Birthday
According to tech.blorge.com Twitter is 4 years old! Happy Birthday Twitter.

YouTube RSS Generator
Generate an RSS feed based on Tag, Category, or your personal Youtube playlist.

YouTube RSS Feed Generator

RSS2HTML.com
The service at RSS2HTML.com has been discontinued due to malicious use. You can still download the free RSS2HTML PHP script and run it locally. RSS2HTML Script can be found at http://www.feedforall.com/free-php-script.htm

RSS Education Center
The RSS learning center is designed to assist new RSS users, as well as experienced users, in adopting the RSS technology in a meaningful way. The RSS Education Center includes educational articles, video tutorials, RSS tools, and support resources, all in an easy-to-navigate section of the FeedForAll website.

The RSS Education Center is designed to teach the intricacies of RSS feeds and podcasting, in simple and easy-to-understand terms. NotePage, Inc. has always been proactive about RSS education, and assembling these resources in an easy-to-use learning center made sense to further the adoption of RSS and Podcasting. The resource is freely available to all, and can be accessed at RSS Education Center

How to Twitter
Twitter, the latest social networking craze, is a micro-blogging platform where participants post tweets which are short comments limited to 140 characters or less.

Getting setup on Twitter is not terribly difficult. There is a slight learning curve in regard to Twitters culture and tweeting practices, so it is a good idea to monitor the posts for a few days before you jump in and begin tweeting, just to get a feel for the community.

How to Twitter

SQL2RSS
The SQL2RSS script allows you to easily create rss feeds from SQL databases. The script currently supports the conversion of MySQL databases to RSS feeds.

When using SQL2RSS the publisher has complete control over the content in the resulting RSS feed. Administrators and publishers control the database query which allows them the flexibility to determine what data is inserted into the RSS feeds from the database.

The SQL2RSS script allows users to easily convert information that is stored in a database into an RSS feed, for syndication and distribution.

More on SQL2RSS

New Patents via RSS
New patents via an RSS feed.

PDF of RSS Case Studies
PDF of RSS Case Studies

FeedLine
FeedLine, an RSS feed reader is believed to be the first application for iPhone and iPod touch to add a public Google Buzz feed reader.

500 Million Tweets
Twitter users are creating 50 million messages of 140 characters or less per day, the micro-blogging service said Monday.

Kevin Weil, a member of Twitters analytics team, said in a blog post that Twitter users were writing 5,000 tweets per day in 2007, 300,000 per day in 2008 and 2.5 million per day in 2009.

RSS for Smithsonian
RSS Feeds for Smithsonian

RSS for Dept of Labor
RSS Feeds for the Dept of Labor

RSS to PDF
A new tool is designed to covnert RSS feeds to PDFs.

Netflix Has RSS Feeds
Netflix has a list of top 100 videos RSS feeds available.

Majority of News Is Read Online
More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report.

Sixty-one percent of Americans said they get at least some of their news online, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

New Pentagon Social Media Policy
Everyone from troops in the field to the highest brass and civilian leaders will be allowed to Twitter, blog and use Facebook and other social networking sites on the militarys non-classified computer network, the Pentagon announced Friday.

The new policy follows a seven-month review in which the Defense Department weighed the threats and benefits of allowing the wide use of emerging Internet capabilities. It essentially seeks to manage the risks while acknowledging the Internet is proving a powerful tool for a myriad of tasks including recruiting, public relations, collaboration with a wide range of people and for communications between troops and their families.

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Software Industry Conference
Registration is open for the Software Industry Conference scheduled for July 15-17th in Dallas, TX.

Presentation abstract proposals are being accepted through February 28th.

RSS Feeds for the Freelancer
Large collection of RSS feeds specifically for the freelancer.

FutureRSS PHP Script
The Future RSS script is used to automatically delay the publication of Items in an RSS feed. This allows Items in a RSS feed to be created ahead of time, and then slowly released over a period of time. Many people have tried to set the PubDate field on their RSS feed Items to a future date and time, in an attempt to have that particular item become visible to their feeds subscribers on that particular date and time. Unfortunately, they will soon find out that many RSS readers and aggregators don't honor future PubDates, and immediately show all their feed's items. The future-rss.php script hides the future items from RSS feed readers and aggregators, until their PubDate becomes current.

Video Tutorial - How to Select an RSS Reader
When determining what RSS feed reader to download, thought should be given to security. More an more publishers are using RSS feeds as a way to deliver podcasts or media rich-content. Users of desktop software will want to find an RSS reader that allows for rich media to be delivered safely and securely.

Web surfers might want to give thought to another consideration of cross compatibility and synchronization. With the advances in RSS readers, many subscribers use multiple platforms to read their feeds. While this is convenient, if the the web surfer is not using a synchronized solution, they find themselves marking the same feed items read multiple times.


Video Tutorial - How to Select an RSS Reader

100 Best Feeds for Financial Literacy
List of top financial feeds.

Top 10 Web Design Sins
Many webmasters repeat the mistakes made by their predecessors. Take a look at these Top 10 most common web design sins. Have you fallen victim to any of these?

Sin #1 - Using Techie-Speak

Many websites fail to communicate in terms that website visitors can understand. Set the technical jargon aside, and use simple language and words that will be easy for your audience to understand. Web copy should be written in simple terms. Also, keep in mind that the Internet audience is global, and using language that is more common and easy to comprehend will often expand your reach, even to include non-native speakers.

Top 10 Web Design Sins

RSS2HTML.com
Free service to display RSS feeds as HTML.

RSS Feed Icons
Collection of RSS Feed icons.

Romantic RSS Feed for Valentines Day
Find ideas for Valentines Day. Great romantic gift ideas, suggestions and articles for valentines via RSS Feed.

Dept of Energy RSS Feeds
Even the Dept of Energy has RSS Feeds

Library of Congress RSS Feeds
RSS is a technology that allows organizations to deliver news to a desktop computer or other Internet device. By subscribing to RSS feeds, users can easily stay up-to-date with areas of the Librarys site that are of interest. The Library of Congress offers several RSS feeds for use in an RSS reader or RSS-enabled Web browser. Library feeds consist of headline, brief summary, and a link that leads back to the Librarys Web site for more information.

Library of Congress RSS Feeds

The Pros and Cons of RSS
If you are struggling with the decision of whether to implement RSS feeds or not, consider the following pros and cons for webmasters who use RSS feeds as part of their content and communication plan...

The Pros and Cons of RSS

How to Choose a Domain Name
So, you have an idea or a product.... now you need a domain name for a website. How do you choose a great domain name? Here are a few ideas...

Brainstorm
Create a list of words or phrases that relate to the product, service, information, or brand that will be promoted on the website.

Experiment
Experiment with variations of the words in the above list. Change the order of words in phrases to create unique combinations for possible domain names.

Check Availability
Check the availability of the potential domains, using Network Solutions or a similar domain registrar. If the desired name is already taken, most domain registrars will provide a list of alternative similar domains that are available.

How to Choose a Domain Name

Forums and RSS Go Together!
If you have a forum please add an RSS feed that subscribers can subscribe to in order to see new posts! It makes monitoring forums much easier and will increase the stickiness of your forum! Most forums have an easy add-on, for RSS feeds.

For Gods Sake Communicate
For Gods sake, blog! Pope Benedict told priests on Saturday, saying they must learn to use new forms of communication to spread the gospel message.

In his message for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Communications, the pope, who is 82 and known not to love computers or the internet, acknowledged priests must make the most of the rich menu of options offered by new technology.

Communicate Gods Words

Twitter Lists to RSS
New tool to convert Twitter Lists to RSS.

FreeMyFeed
FreeMyFeed - Free your feed from authentication or invalid SSL certificates for use in the feed reader of your choice.

RSS Scripts Updated
A bunch of the RSS feed management scripts have been updated.

Using RSS Feeds
The Internet gives you access to a virtual smorgasbord of information. From the consequential to the trivial, the astonishing to the mundane, it is all within your reach. This means you can keep up with the headlines, policies, trends, and tools that interest your nonprofit, and keep informed about what people are saying about your organization online. But the sheer volume of information can pose challenges, too: namely, how do you separate the useful data from all the rest? One way is to use RSS, which brings the information you want to you.

Using RSS Feeds to Feed Your Information Needs

How to Translate RSS feeds
Interesting article explains how to translate RSS feeds:

It is not as easy as using a one-step translation service, but it is worth the effort for reading blogs you think you might like that are not in your language. I will walk through a demo of translating Webware into French.

RSS - What is the Deal for 2010
With the web, one thing that we know is that things are forever changing, and usually more quickly as opposed to less. So it is with RSS as well, and one thing we know for sure is that the use of RSS will evolve based on patterns affecting the social web, the real time web, and so on.

RSS in 2010 - according to Technorati

5 Reasons RSS Readers Rock
What I learned from that discussion is that while the RSS Reader market is indeed in decline, there are still a number of compelling use cases for RSS Readers. Not to mention new tools worth checking out. So in this more optimistic post, I list 5 reasons why you should continue to use RSS Readers

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2009 Reflections, 2010 Predictions
Another year has rolled by marked by miracles, political milestones and tragedies alike. 2009 was the year of financial uproar with bailouts and ponzi schemes dominating the news on a regular basis. Chrysler and GM stalwart car giants struggled to survive. Bernie Madoffs financial pyramid came tumbling down, taking average citizen's retirement plans with it, emptying the coffers of trusting non-profits and celebrities alike.

2009 Reflections, 2010 Predictions

Predictions for 2010
Top 10 Winners Predicted for 2010
1. Healthy Living
2. The Cloud
3. Savings
4. Simplicity in Design
5. Web Applications
6. Instant and Virtual
7. Portability
8. Energy
9. Green Shopping
10. Security

Top 10 Losers Predicted for 2010
1. Capitalism
2. Health Care
3. Credit Card Companies
4. The Left
5. Acorn
6. Big Government
7. Privacy
8. Super Star Atheletes
9. Facebook
10. Reality...

What is Hot and What is Not for 2010

What is Hot and What is Not for 2010
Top 10 Winners Predicted for 2010

1. Healthy Living
The healthy living trend will continue with more and more westerners becoming conscious of the chemicals used in their products and food. Organic, chemical-free products, and healthy living will prosper in 2010.


2. The Cloud
The virtual cloud has grown in 2009. The benefits of virtualization and collective space will continue into 2010, with significant cloud growth.

3. Savings
The economic crisis caught many unaware; job security of middle management was tossed a curve in 2009. As a result consumers are becoming more savvy about what they spend their money on, and they are less likely to rely on credit. Savings will grow in 2010.

What is Hot and What is Not for 2010

30 RSS and Web 2.0 Applications
Collection of 30 RSS and Web 2.0 Applications

Definitions of RSS
RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and  Rich Site Summary. RSS is an XML-based format for content distribution. Webmasters create an RSS file containing headlines and descriptions of specific information. While the majority of RSS feeds currently contain news headlines or breaking information the long term uses of RSS are broad.

What is RSS?

Google Is More than Just a Search Engine
The architects of the most powerful search engine in the world have included some really handy algorithms in their service, which allow searchers to quickly locate particular and specific types of information...

1. Definitions
In order to quickly find the definition of a word, simply type "define: word" in the search box. Google will then provide the definition of the word.

2. Area Codes
Enter a US telephone area code in the URL box to see a map of the area covered by that telephone area code.

Google is More than Just a Search Engine

TweetSense
With TweetSense your most relevant Twitter links at the top of your streams.

mytweetsense automatically filters your twitter stream, so that the tweets* containing your most relevant content, are presented first.

Podcasting Bundle
Podcasting Bundle Complete Podcasting Solution

    RecordForAll - records audio content

    - records audio files
    - add music to tracks
    - edit audio files
    - export as WAV, MP3 or WMA
    - edit meta tags related to audio file (ID3)

    FeedForAll - easily creates the coding for a podcast

    - creates podcast feed
    - easily add iTunes tags to podcast
    - auto-publish FTP
    - auto detects file type
    - publishes podcast feed
    - export to HTML or CSV
    - manage unlimited number of feeds
    - automatically repairs incorrectly formatted podcasts and feeds
    - built in wizard for easy podcast creation

FeedTweeter
Feedtweeter focuses on getting your Plurks to Twitter and the other way around in a sane way, but it should work with any RSS feed.

Google Chrome Does Not Embrace RSS
Another version of Google Chrome v4, on a new platform and the same old news about RSS: support isn't there in the browser. Both RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds display inline in the browser as a huge jumble of text. complete article

On Page Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization has become a fine science. Tweaking, changing, and measuring is all part of the ongoing optimization process. SEO truly is a process that requires constant monitoring and attention. In order for a website to perform well, its managers and webmasters must adapt their SEO techniques as the search engine algorithms change.  On Page Search Engine Optimization

FeedNest
FeedNest allows you to publish your RSS feed on a twitter account.

RSS Italia
RSS Italia is an Italian RSS feed directory.

RSSTalker
Enter your email address to track a wishlist on Amazon or an Amazon URL for a specific product and a feed will be created on RSSTalker.

Huge List of RSS Tools
Huge List of RSS Tools

Twitter for Business
Businesses can use Twitter as a marketing tool in a variety of ways. Many business owners struggle with social media as a marketing medium. At the heart of the most effective social media marketing campaigns is personal communication. Many businesses that try to manage social media may attempt to shout their message, rather than simply engaging with potential customers. Potential customers who are active in social networks will not be receptive to marketing in this fashion. The trick with social media like Twitter is to interact and engage, rather than shouting your message.

Twitter for Business

Follow Christmas Deals via RSS
Many of the coupon websites and deal websites have RSS feeds available. If you want to keep tabs on discounts for the holidays subscribe to the RSS feeds.

Video Optimization Part 2
Optimizing your video for search engines will increase the exposure that the video receives, and optimization will also help spread the video's message. Follow these steps to enhance your videos and improve their rankings...

1. Shorter Videos Rank Better

No big surprise here -- the file size of short videos is much smaller than that of longer videos. On the video networks like YouTube, short videos are viewed far more often than longer ones. A length of less than 3 minutes per video seems to be ideal, and absolutely make every effort to keep your video under 10 minutes! If you have a long video segment, consider breaking it into multiple videos. The more popular videos on the video networks are given more exposure, which will also help increase the number of views received.

2. Titles Capture Interest

Just like newspaper headlines, it is important that the title of the video be one that will attract attention. If possible, include important keywords in the video title. This will help the video perform well in video searches for that keyword or phrase. Word order may also make a difference in the video ranking, so try to use the more important keywords at or near the beginning of the video title.

Video Optimization - Part 2

Manage Your Reputation Online
A companys reputation is often critical to that company's success. The anonymity and vastness of the Internet makes managing a reputation much more difficult than it once was. Businesses must be proactive about protecting their brands and reputations.

Manage Your Reputation Online

Google Is More than Just a Search Engine
The architects of the most powerful search engine in the world have included some really handy algorithms in their service, which allow searchers to quickly locate particular and specific types of information...

1. Definitions
In order to quickly find the definition of a word, simply type "define: word" in the search box. Google will then provide the definition of the word.

2. Area Codes
Enter a US telephone area code in the URL box to see a map of the area covered by that telephone area code.

Google Is More Than a Search Engine

RSS Video Tutorials
Learn the intricacies of RSS feeds and podasting with RSS and Podcasting Videos

Search Engine Optimization Myths
A myth is a traditional story, idea, or explanation which is widely accepted, but actually untrue or unproven. Misconceptions can also be described as modern-day myths. When it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the myths and misconceptions are abundant. We will try to dispel some of the more common Search Engine Optimization myths here...

RSS Image
Here is a good image explaining how RSS Works not sure why the RSS feeds come into two computers they really only need to come into one.

Reuters RSS Feeds
Collection of RSS feeds from Reuters. Stay current on the news using RSS>

RSSSpybot
Rssybot allows you to watch your RSS feeds from Google Wave. This incredibly simple robot could not be more useful! Just add it to a wave, enter the link to the RSS feed you want to subscribe to and wait for new posts to appear in your inbox as unread blips.

What Is RSS Video Tutorial
What is RSS? A video tutorial that explains the intricacies of the RSS Internet standard.

RSS to PDF
FeedJournal converts RSS feeds to PDFs.

Instant RSS for Websites
Enter the URL of your website and an RSS feed will be created with RSSA

Monty Python RSS
There are even RSS feeds for Monty Python!

RSS-to-Email Saves Nearly 20 Staff Hours Per Week
Originally published in an email marketing case study, TheChartman.com results have generated interest among industry experts and e-marketers. This exclusive webinar will focus on how RSS feeds can be used to make email campaign management easier than ever, with simple setup and seamless execution. Gold Lassos email marketing experts will also review how the RSS-to-Email function Seminar saved Smiths staff 20 hours per week in message assembly.

Blogger Down and Out
Googles popular Blogger blog-publishing service crashed early on Friday and remained unavailable to most users for about 90 minutes, the type of broad system outage that Google has been trying to eradicate from its Web-hosted applications.

Google acknowledged the crash in brief statements posted to the Blogger Status site and to the Blogger Help Forum.

State of Blogosphere
Technoratis State of the Blogosphere 2009 report topics include: professional blogging activities, brands in the blogosphere, monetization, twitter & micro-blogging and bloggers impact on US and World events.

Podcasting Video Tuorials
Collection of  Video Tutorials for Podcasters.

Tips to Optimize Video Podcasts
It does not matter what you call them: vodcasts, vidcasts, videocasting, or video podcasting... there are a few behind-the-scenes actions you can take to help attract more attention to your video productions. Just like websites, it does not matter how amazing the content is if interested people are unable to find it.

Tips to Optimize Video Podcasts

The FCC RSS Feeds
Large collection of RSS feeds for the Federal Communications Commission FCC.

A Primer for Publishers and Content Providers
RSS content development primer for publishers.

Ad Group Calls on FTC to Rescind Blogger Rules
An advertising group has called on the Federal Trade Commission to rescind recently published blogger guidelines, accusing the commission of cracking down on Internet sites for infractions that print media has been engaged in for years.

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NASA RSS Feeds
NASA is on Twitter and also offers a collection of RSS feeds.

RSS Education Center
Learn the intricacies of RSS feeds and podasting in the RSS Learning Center.

No Award for Blogger
Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her countrys communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize.

Yoani Sanchez had hoped to go to Columbia University for a Wednesday ceremony to receive her Maria Moors Cabot Prize, the oldest international award in journalism.

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RSSBirthday
Use RSS feeds to remember birthdays with RSSBirthday

RSS Feed Converter
Convert RSS feeds to different formats with RSS Feed Converter

Audio Recording Software for Podcasters
RecordForAll is an easy to use commercial podcasting solution. RecordForAll allows for publishers to record audio files, edit sound files, and add effects. RecordForAll can be used by podcasters or other types of audio producers to overlay tracks, create fades, and add background music or effects to their audio productions.

The RecordForAll software gives the user the ability to record, store and import all types of audio recordings. Recordings can be easily labeled and organized. While RecordForAll has a lot of functionality it is still very easy for beginners to use. Simply drag and drop audio clips, to create a podcast show sequence. Edit clips by simply highlighting or overlaying segments. Audio clips can be individually managed allowing podcasters to make each clip shorter, longer, softer or louder.

RecordForAll supports basic mixing, cropping and track splitting, which makes the editing process simple even for beginning podcasters. Finished productions can be saved as an MP3,WAV or WMA file format. RecordForAll is an all-in-one recording studio that assists users in recording, editing and mixing their podcasts, resulting in professional podcasts even for beginners.

Blogging Disclosure Required
It is official: The Federal Trade Commission will require bloggers to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products.

It is the first time since 1980 that the commission has revised its guidelines on endorsements and testimonials, and the first time the rules have covered bloggers.

But the commission stopped short Monday of specifying how bloggers must disclose any conflicts of interest.

The FTC said its commissioners voted 4-0 to approve the final guidelines, which had been expected. Penalties include up to $11,000 in fines per violation. The rules take effect Dec. 1.

RSS Synchronization and FeedDemon
A few months ago, it was announced that NewsGator synchronization was being discontinued. If you are using FeedDemon 2.7 synchronized with NewsGator, you must now upgrade to FeedDemon 3.0, which includes synchronization with Google Reader, the process takes a fair amount of time to convert and synch your feeds with the new database.

RSS At Sea
Ocean RSS Icons collection. 7 RSS vector icons that are related to the sea.

Entetainment Tonight RSS Feeds
Collection of RSS feeds from Entertainment Tonight

Add Sound Effects to Podcasts
You can easily add sound effects to your podcast to add some drama. There are a number of sound effect resources available here are some to try:

Digital Sound Effects
List of Other Sound Effects.

Simple Steps to Create RSS Auto Discovery Code
Fill out the form to create RSS feed auto discovery code. Auto-discovery allows people with certain RSS readers to automatically detect that an RSS feed exists for the content contained on the webpage.

Twitter Funding
Twitter is close to raising up to 100 million dollars in new funding in a deal which values the hot micro-blogging service at one billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Now the question - what are they going to do with the money?

RSS Video Tutorials
Video tutorials that explain how RSS works. Collection of videos that discuss the ins and outs of RSS.

RSS Icons Galore
Huge collection of RSS Icons. Additional links to RSS icon resources can be found in the RSS Tools list.

RSS.com
A while back, Sedo was brokering the domain name RSS.com for $750,000 but it did not sell. I recently learned that the buyer has drastically cut his asking price, and it is now for sale with a price of $125,000. additional details

FTC Regulation
A recent post in Search Engine News discusses moves that the Federal Trade Commission is taking to regulate blog posts. The FTC is tasked with protecting consumers from harmful business practices. The FTC will soon be looking at reviews or endorsements published on blogs to determine if they are paid placements.  Bloggers need to be aware and disclose any payments they received.

New Audio Recording Software
RecordForAll is an easy to use commercial podcasting solution. RecordForAll allows for publishers to record audio files, edit sound files, and add effects. RecordForAll can be used by podcasters or other types of audio producers to overlay tracks, create fades, and add background music or effects to their audio productions.

The RecordForAll software gives the user the ability to record, store and import all types of audio recordings. Recordings can be easily labeled and organized. While RecordForAll has a lot of functionality it is still very easy for beginners to use. Simply drag and drop audio clips, to create a podcast show sequence. Edit clips by simply highlighting or overlaying segments. Audio clips can be individually managed allowing podcasters to make each clip shorter, longer, softer or louder.

FCC Joins Social Revolution
The Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. agency that regulates the telecommunications industry, is becoming more media savvy by joining popular networking sites such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.

Cyberlaw Cases on a Blog
Two University of California at Berkeley professors are teaming up with colleagues to launch Cyberlaw Cases, a blog covering what they consider the top 10 most-important pending U.S. legal cases involving issues that impact the Internet, databases, and software programs.

The blog focuses on an evolving list of cases on issues such as network neutrality, privacy, copyright, trademark, and patent issues, and includes analytical postings about each case and the authors assessments of potential impacts.

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Presentation Primer
Many individuals are called upon to give presentations, but many have no formal instruction on how to deliver the most effective presentations. So for the benefit of those who might need a bit of help, we've put together a primer for presenters...

This is particularly helpful for podcasters!

FeedRoller
FeedRoller is a lightweight RSS and Twitter feed ticker. It is designed to show scrolling headlines from your favorite news sites, blogs and twitter account, directly on your desktop.

Corporate Benefits of RSS
According to new data from a McKinsey Global Survey, 42% of some 1,700 executives report seeing a measurable benefit from really simple syndication. That is 24% more than those who see any benefit from micro-blogging, i.e., Twitter.

HUD RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Housing and Urban Development.

YouTube Sharing Revenue
YouTube will share profits with users who post popular videos on the site, the company announced on its blog. By extending the YouTube Partnership Program, the company offers more individuals with one off popular videos a chance to earn thousands of dollars a month.

In the past amateur videos on YouTube never earned a dime for the creator, even if they clocked millions of views. But YouTube is now rewarding authors of videos that keep YouTube popular and is offering to spread the wealth it generates with the authors.

YouTube will monitor the popularity of user-submitted videos and some users will get invited to start earning revenue through the Partnership Program. To determine with videos are worth it, YouTube will look at the number of views the video has so far and its compliance with the sites terms of service - read no copyright infringements.

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Good RSS Blogs
Good RSS Blogs
Stay up to date with the latest RSS news following the RSS industry blogs.

RSS Specifications Blog
Blog - http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm
RSS Feed - http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog-feed.xml

FeedForAll RSS Blog
Blog - http://www.feedforall.com/blog.htm
RSS Feed - http://www.feedforall.com/blog-feed.xml

RSSApplied
Blog - http://blog.rssapplied.com/
RSS - http://blog.rssapplied.com/feed

NewsNiche
Blog - http://www.newsniche.com
RSS Feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewsnicheRssBlog
(has not been updated in a while)

NewsGator
Blog - http://blogs.newsgator.com/daily/
RSS Feed - http://blogs.newsgator.com/daily/rss.xml

RSS4Lib
Blog - http://www.rss4lib.com
RSS Feed - http://www.rss4lib.com/index.xml

RSSTop55
Blog - http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/
RSS Feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Robin-Good-Latest-News

Pheedo
While posting is not frequent on the Pheedo blog, the quality of the posts is really quite good
Blog - http://www.pheedo.info
RSS Feed - http://www.pheedo.info/index.xml
(has not been updated in a while)

Japans Political Rules Impact Bloggers
On Tuesday, 1,370 Japanese stopped blogging and Twittering. There's perhaps nothing unusual about that; after all, hundreds give up social media efforts every day. But for these people the halt to their online activities has been brought on by the law.

No, they have not done anything wrong. But they are candidates in Japan's upcoming national election, and with the official 12-day campaigning window now underway, online communication is off-limits.

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Increase Your RSS Feed Subscribers
Growing subscribers of your RSS feed will expand your reach. Put the appropriate effort into marketing your RSS feed, so you can increase adoption and spread the message contained in the RSS feed.

Increase Your RSS Feed Subscribers

RSS.com for Sale
RSS.com is up for sale.

Evolution of Blogging
Interesting look and view of the Evolution of Blogging.

RSS to PDF Newspaper
Enter the RSS feed or OPML URL to create and RSS to PDF newspaper.

Get Ready for Halloween with RSS Icons
Get ready for Halloween early with these Halloween RSS Icons.

RSSHandler
RSSHandler is an RSS to podcast converter that aims to solve this problem by converting Youtube RSS feeds to FLV, MP4 and other such computer mobile friendly formats.

FTC Is After Bloggers
The Federal Trade Commission is currently investigating fair blogging practices, but an advertising group is one step ahead, and has forced two companies to clearly disclose their relationship with the health-related products they promote via blogs and Web sites.

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SQL2RSS
PHP Script that converts SQL database to RSS Feeds, SQL2RSS.

Hallmarks of a Good Podcast
There are many, many things that separate a good podcast from all the rest. Here are a few to consider...

Recording Quality
The quality of the recording is probably the most critical component of a podcast. A good podcast is easy to understand, and should be recorded at a volume level that makes it easy for listeners to hear all that is said.

Sound Balance
Adding background music polishes a podcast, but be careful that the music does not overpower the primary content. The background music should be subtle and not distracting. Create a balance that does not compromise the quality of the recording. Also, be sure that the music is not the focal point of a podcast show, unless the topic is about the music -- the emphasis should be on the primary content, and not on the musical arrangements.

Hallmarks of a Good Podcast

Twitter Attack and Blogger Linked
The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia — but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause.

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The Military Is Not Social
Apparently the Marines can protect our country, but when it comes to social media they are defenseless, as they banned use of social media - Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have been banned - effective immediately.

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RSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More?
I personally do not think it needs to be an either, or, both have value -- RSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More?

EU Feeds
Over 1000 European newspaper feeds.

PDF Search Engine Optimization
Google, Yahoo, and MSN can all spider and index text-based PDF files, and generally they rank quite well. PDF files can be used to seize top listings for important keywords and keyword phrases. In order to have a PDF effectively rank well in organic searches, it should be optimized for the search engines, just as you would optimize a web page. Optimization of PDF files for search engines is very similar to search engine optimization for other types of content...

PDF Search Engine Optimization

Commodity Future Trading RSS Feeds
Commodity Future Trading Community RSS feeds for monitoring news related to the futures market.

Australian Police Use Twitter
Australian police said they were joining the Twitterati Thursday, using the micro-blogging service to discourage drink-driving among young people.

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AP Fights Digital Piracy
Vowing to fight unauthorized reproduction of news reports online, The Associated Press said Thursday that it would add software to each article showing who created it and what limits apply to the rights to use it. The software will also notify the A.P. about how the article is used across the Web.

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Google News RSS feeds Broken
RSS feeds for Google News search results have been broken for about three weeks, according to complaints in the companys help forum. Three weeks ago a Google engineer said they expected the problem to be fixed in about a week. Now the company has simply removed the links in the results page sidebar to both RSS and Google Alerts.

How to use XSLT to style an RSS feed
XSLT is a fairly well-supported technology. It allows you take any XML file – including RSS – and transform it into an styled HTML document. It is kind of like CSS on steroids.

How to use XSLT to style an RSS feed

Give RSS Feed Options!
I have seen recent queries about whether you should provide RSS feeds for categories, keywords or one feed that includes everything. Why not give the subscriber the choice? Check out this RSS implementation: RSS feeds for PowerPoint Templates

Podcasting for Businesses
Regardless of the size of your business, or whether your company is public, private, a government agency, or a non-profit... there is little doubt that you should consider podcasting. Podcasting is a 21st century medium, and has proven that it is far more than just a passing fad.

Podcasting for Businesses

RSS to PDF Newspaper
Free software project to help people create printable PDFs from RSS feeds - RSS to PDF Newspaper

Re-Using Content
Repurposing content is not a terribly new concept. Webmasters that picked up on the trend have benefited from traffic surges for a while now. Repurposing content is all about presenting the same content in a variety of different ways, or using different mediums to present the same content. Webmasters can manipulate content in order to provide the same content in any number of different formats.

Re-Using Content

RSS2HTML.com
Hosted RSS2HTML service allows you to display RSS feeds as HTML.

Design Feeds
An OPML file of 250 design feeds for graphic designers.

Make RSS Feeds
Guide to Make RSS Feeds by hand.

USGS RSS Feeds
United States Geological Services - USGS RSS feeds.

KindleFeeder
Get RSS feeds for your kindle service.

The Legalities of Republishing RSS Feeds
Here is a blog post about a the legalities of someone republishing his feed. Here is more on the RSS and Copyrights topic.

Blogger Bug
Publishers with custom domains hosted on Googles Blogger blog-publishing service have been losing traffic for the past week due to a bug affecting how visitors get redirected from the Blogger domain to the publishers own domains.

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Twitter Mistakes
Jason VanOrden posted a great report about common Twitter Mistakes

80% of Twitter Users Fail to Provide a Homepage URL
76% of Twitter Users Fail to Enter their Bio in the Profile
69% of Twitter Users Have Not Specified a Location

RSS Feeds are NOT All of Blogs
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around how Google seems to consider any web site that contains an RSS feed, as a blog. In fact, several webmasters are complaining that their web sites are showing in the Google Universal Results, under the label of, blog posts about, when their site is simply not a blog.

What seems to be happening is that Google may be considering any site that has an RSS feed as a blog.

RSS Cheese
Cheese chunk RSS feed icons.

RSS2Twitter
RSS2Twitter is a service that forwards RSS feeds to Twitter. An alternative is TwitterFeed.

Feedmil
Feedmil is an RSS search engine but I could not get any results to come up for what I would consider long tail searches.

Grants via RSS Feeds
Small businesses looking for grants will want to subscribe to the RSS feeds from Grants.gov

Netflix Offering A Variety of RSS feeds
Netflix, the popular DVD site is offering a variety of feeds as well as the option of customizing and personalizing feeds to meet your personal tastes.

The UK Dept of Work and Pensions Added Feeds
The UK Dept of Work and Pensions has added RSS feeds.

Submit RSS Feeds
Large list of sites that you can submit RSS feeds to.

Last Chance for Software Industry Conference Boston, MA July 16-18
This is the last chance to register for the Software Industry Conference a conference designed for software developers and marketers. The conference will be in Boston, MA July 16-18th.

SousChef RSS Feed Program
As recipe collection moves out of the card box and into the computer, there has emerged a small cadre of Mac programs designed to help you find, categorize, share, display, and cook your food. SousChef 1.2 is a compact program with an iTunes-RSS feed.

Blogs Can Feed Social Networks
Your blog RSS feeds are powerful syndication software. So use them to save yourself from the hassle of updating your social networks. Here are a few tricks and tips to feed social networks.

Visual RSS vs Atom Comparison
Visual comparison of RSS vs Atom.

The FTC is Paying Attention
Savvy consumers often go online for independent consumer reviews of products and services, scouring through comments from everyday Joes and Janes to help them find a gem or shun a lemon.

What some fail to realize, though, is that such reviews can be tainted: Many bloggers have accepted perks such as free laptops, trips to Europe, $500 gift cards or even thousands of dollars for a 200-word post.

Bloggers vary in how they disclose such freebies, if they do so at all. The practice has grown to the degree that the Federal Trade Commission is paying attention.

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Blogger in Court
A blogger is due in a Connecticut courtroom to face a charge of inciting violence against state lawmakers.

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Microsoft is Offering Incentives for RSS Subscription
Microsoft is offering a subscription to people who subscribe to their RSS feed:

Becoming an MCP is almost as easy as subscribing to an RSS feed. Just sign up for Microsoft Learnings Born to Learn RSS Feed and if you' are chosen among the three, random and lucky winners, the voucher is yours for a MCP course.

Twitter Critical to Iranian Election
Twitter, the social-networking service derided for being the last refuge of the banal, has gained a new currency on the world stage. The stream of micro-blog postings has proven an important source of real-time news and images of the violence that erupted following the contested presidential election in Iran.

ABCs of RSS
Learn the ABCs of RSS....

RSSFilter
RSSFilter is a PHP script that filters the contents of an RSS feed. The filters can be defined by the publisher so that the resulting RSS feed contains only the information they want. RSSFilter uses rules to filter the items that are included from a feed in the resulting feed.

FeedMingle
FeedMingle is a merging application that will merge RSS feeds into a single one.

Feed Parser
Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python. Universal Feed Parser.

CIA Adopting Web 2.0
The CIA is adopting Web 2.0 tools such as blogs and collaborative wikis, but not without a struggle in an agency with an ingrained culture of secrecy, CIA officers said Friday.

New RSS Aggregator
Looks like a new RSS aggregator RSS Hostei.

Sound Effects
Royalty free sound effects for podcasts.

Time Management Tips
Managing your time and using it wisely is a journey, and not something that can be easily mastered overnight. Implementing a plan will help, but it is not going to be a sure cure. Time management requires a significant amount of self-discipline.

Here are some tips to assist you with time management...

Reminder Hundreds of RSS Tools
We have compiles a list of Hundreds of RSS Tools and Hundreds of Podcasting Tools for webmasters, publishers, and podcasters.

What Are Sound Effects
A sound effect is a ready-made sound for podcasters or producers. Typically, podcasters need to only incorporate the sound into their production for instant success. This can be done with various editors running in a very short amount of time. Sound Effects make the creation of a podcast easier and professional. Sound effects are usually easy to edit and customize using any sound editor, occasionally more sophisticated sound require precise tuning.

Examples of sound effects can be found at Digital Sound Effects

What Are Sound Effects?

Website Review Webinar! Part II
Register for the 2nd Website Review Webinar. The live website critique has for many years been a popular session at both the Software Industry Conference and the European Software Conference. Sharon Housley of NotePage, Inc. and Dave Collins of SharewarePromotions offer their many years of experience to dissect, criticise and sometimes rip apart a website's appearance and setup.

Subjects covered include the initial impression created by a website, structure, navigation, communication, SEO setup and more.

The first webinar took place on Wednesday the 29th of April and was a resounding success!

The second website critique will be taking place on Tuesday June 23rd noon EST.

SignUp for Webinar

Universal Feed Parser
Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python using Universal Feed Parser.

ShowRSS
ShowRSS your favorite TV Shows via an RSS feed.

Tips for Public Speaking and Presenting
Presentations can be a great way to attract new business, simply by making yourself more well-known. However, nerves can often get in the way of entrepreneurs who want to use speaking opportunities to develop their business. Follow these steps to overcome nerves and make a powerful presentation during your public speaking engagement...

Tips for Public Speaking and Presenting

Software Marketing RSS Feeds
Collection of RSS feeds for software marketers and programmers.

160 Development RSS Feeds
Here are 160 RSS Feeds for Software Developers.

How to Promote a Podcast?
If you are spending the time and energy to publish a regular podcast, make sure to give it the exposure it deserves.

How Do I Promote My Podcast?

RSS Feeds for PowerPoint Templates
This is a cool implementation of RSS feeds. The RSS feeds update for new PowerPoint Templates posted. You can select category feeds, create keyword feeds, or other search text.

Student Discount at Software Industry Conference
Student Discount for Software Industry Conference in Boston MA July 16-18th. Only $50.00 with student ID normally $249.00! Educational sessions for software developers and marketers.

FeedScrub
FeedScrub is filters your feeds based on your preferences. Subscribe to all your favorite feeds, then tell Feedscrub which posts you do and do not like. Feedscrub will learn your preferences and begin filtering out posts that d not interest you.

Marine Corps RSS Feeds
Collection of Marine Corps RSS Feeds

Twitter vs RSS Feed Readers
There is no question that Twitter and RSS have some things in common. However, they are not the same, and Twitter will not kill the feed reader. This is a concept I have seen come up a number of times, and frankly, I just do not see it happening, at least not without some dramatic changes in how Twitter is presented to its users.

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Software Awards
The SIAF Peoples Choice Awards were created so software users would have the opportunity to vote for their favorite software programs. The voting for these awards is hosted each year by some of the largest sites on the Internet. In past years, this has included popular sites like CNET, Simtel, Tucows, PC World, and others. Software authors are also allowed to point to the Peoples Choice Award voting site and encourage their users to vote!

Follow the FBI
Follow the Federal Bureau of Investigation on facebook , YouTube , and Twitter .

Templates for RSS2HTML Script
Check out the RSS2HTML templates available for the RSS2HTML scripts.

Blog Promotion
There are a wide variety of things you can do in regard to blog promotion. Here are just a few...

Blog Promotion

8 Ways to Monetize Your RSS Feed
This limits your websites full monetization potential because a portion of your visitors will connect with your website in their feed reader and thus avoid the arsenal of contextual or impression-based ads you have carefully optimized alongside your content.

8 Ways to Monetize Your RSS Feed

RSS to Twitter
RSS2Twitter will publish yourRSS feed content to twitter.

Huge Collection of RSS Feed Icons
Huge collection of new RSS feed Icons.

RSSDler from Google
RSSDler is a utility to automatically download enclosures and other objects linked to from various types of RSS feeds. Works well on podcasts, videocasts, and torrents.

SEO for Audio Files
If you are investing in audio content, be sure you make the most of the opportunities it offers by optimizing the audio file and podcast. Spending a little extra time and effort here will increase the exposure and opportunities available.

SEO for Audio Files

Where to Locate Sound Effects for Podasts?
Royalty-free sound effect libraries contain thousands of sound effects that can be licensed for specific uses. A customer who uses royalty-free sound effects, as opposed to hiring a sound engineer to create them from scratch, can save considerable time, effort, and money. Typically, podcasters and other content producers can obtain non-exclusive rights to a single effect, or they can purchase a subscription of sorts. The subscriptions allow publishers to download a limited number of sound effects during a specified period of time.

Here are a few sources for Sound Effects...

Where to Find Sound Effects

RSS Birthday
Remember Birthdays with RSS feeds checkout RSSBirthday

Swine Flu RSS Feeds
Collection of RSS feeds for updates regarding the Swine Flu:

CDC Swine Flu RSS Feed
World Health Organization Swine Flu RSS Feed
Pandemic Flu RSS Feed
NPR on Swine Flu RSS Feed

Center for Disease Control on Twitter
HealthMap on Twitter

Submit RSS Feeds and Blogs
Large list of directories and search engines for Blogs and RSS feeds. Simply Submit your RSS Feeds and Blogs.

Instant Autodiscovery Tag
Auto-discovery allows people with certain RSS readers to automatically detect that an RSS feed exists for the content contained on the webpage. Fill out this form and it will automatically generate the required autodiscovery code.

Digital Sound Effects
Digital Sound Effects directory that contains royalty free sound effects that can be used in podcast productions or other broadcasts.

Creative Podcasting for Businesses
Podcasting content comes in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Businesses are finding many different and creative ways of incorporating podcasts into their business strategies and marketing plans.

Here are just some of the various types of content that businesses are turning into podcasts...

Creative Podcasting for Businesses

SQL2RSS
Dynamically convert SQL database to RSS feeds with SQL2RSS.

RSS Spider
RSS Spider is a new RSS feed directory.

ABCs of Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is a perceived transition of the Web to web-based applications. Web 2.0 is the next generation of technology solutions where interactive content is the norm.

There is no agreement on exactly what Web 2.0 means. Check out the ABCs of Web 2.0

Website Critique Webinar
Free webinar that critiques websites. Sign-up and submit your site or simply enjoy the entertainment!

Website Review Webinar

How to Embed RSS Feeds in Websites
Robin Good of MasterNewMedia posted a good summary of solutions that allow you to embed RSS feeds into a webpage, scroll down to the table to see all the specific solutions and a comparison.

Create RSS | Make RSS Feeds
Article that details exactly how to Create an RSS feed.

RSS is a standard for syndicating content on the Internet. RSS feeds are used in a variety of ways to distribute all types of content via the Internet. The benefits for individuals subscribing to RSS feeds have resulted in a rapid growth and adoption rate. Software and tools have made RSS feed creation and management easy, even for non-technical individuals, which has also fueled the growth of RSS feeds.

Create RSS | Make RSS Feeds

Feed My Inbox
Using Feed My Inbox use Blogs, Feeds and News magically delivered to your email!

FeedMySearch
Turn your usual Google searches into tiny rss feeds.Get instant updates whenever a new result appears in Google with FeedMySearch.

RSSFeed.me
RSSFeed.me is a new browser-based feed / headline ticker. Watch latest posts and headlines from feeds you subscribe to pop out on your screen as you work.

FeedNest
FeedNest.com lets you publish any RSS feed to your twitter account automatically posting each new item as they are published.

Emergency Response and RSS
Centrelink will use GPS-enabled phones and RSS feeds to improve its response to disasters such as the recent Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods.
The agency played a key role in the recent bushfires and floods as it distributed more than $100 million worth of government support payments to victims.
But its resources were under extreme pressure as it responded to a spate of natural disasters across the country. It now plans to use mobile phones with Global Positioning System capability to track where staff are deployed and what skills are available in an area.

This information will be fed back to a command centre in real time and displayed on a screen.

The department will also use RSS feeds -- which allow a single message to be sent out to a group of subscribers -- to allocate resources to different areas to meet changing demand.

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Distill Digg RSS Feeds
If you subscribe to a Digg RSS feed but find it cluttered with items that are not of interest take a look at Distill. Distill filters out stories below the minimum diggs that you set.

What Can be Published Using RSS Feeds
With all the vast amounts of information available on the web, it is becoming more and more difficult to sort through and find what you are looking for. RSS significantly lowers the signal-to-noise ratio.

What Can be Published Using RSS Feeds

Top 10 Mom Bloggers
Best Mommy bloggers can be found in the Top 10 Mom Blogging Resources

Kindlefeeder
Kindlefeeder is a service for Amazon Kindle owners that lets you aggregate your favorite feeds and have them delivered to your Kindle in a convenient, easy-to-navigate format. You can also have your feeds delivered to your Kindle automatically on a schedule.Kindlefeeder offers a free basic and a paid unlimited service.

Tax Info Via RSS Feeds
GlobeTax, a withholding tax recovery and market data specialists, have launched an RSS feature on their homepage. The feed will supply up-to-the minute news on tax withholding issues, tax rate and treaty changes, and DTC Important Notices.

Banking Business Review Adds Feeds
Banking Business Review offers RSS feeds available for syndication. The Business Review web sites offer several different RSS feeds and offer the Headline of the article  company, a brief description and links back to the relevant page on the Business Review site.

Communicate with Users within Software Using RSS Feed
Actively communicate with users from within your software using RSS Feeds! Free software allows you to communicate from within the software.

RSS Calendar
RSSCalendar by Lookout Software is a web-based calendar and event software application for publishing online, interactive calendars of events. With RSSCalendar, you embed calendars with events into your website by passing in a few lines of JavaScript in your websites HTML

Closing an RSS Feed
Slashdot raises the question about how to best close an old event RSS feed.

Best Search Marketing Blogs
Attempting to stay current on the latest search engine algorithm changes or search optimization tactics can be overwhelming for webmasters attempting to juggle it all. With this in mind, we have put together a list of the industrys best Search Marketing blogs. These blogs are current and discuss important issues related to search engine optimization and search marketing. Subscribe to the search marketing blogs RSS feeds, or visit their website regularly to stay current regarding the latest search news.

Best Search Marketing Blogs

Reminder Subscriber To Your Feeds
Just a quick reminder. Everyone should subscribe to their own RSS feeds to see what their readers are seeing!

Social Media Primer
Social media is the Internets version of viral messaging and marketing. Social media can be used to disseminate news or information, as well as to attract attention. There are a wide variety of social media channels and networks available.

Social networks and social media websites are community-driven websites that allow visitors to submit items of interest. Visitors also decide what items appeal to them by voting or tagging; the more popular an item is determined to be by the visitors, the more exposure the item is given.

Social Bookmarking Primer

Do You Feed
DoYouFeed is a tool that transform any RSS feed into an iPhone friendly site.

What Exactly is Podcasting
For the non-technical folks, podcasting is simply a means of syndicating and distributing rich-media files via the Internet. The content contained in a podcast can vary significantly, from a song, to a educational lecture, to a political debate, to just about anything else. One great thing about podcasting is the wide variety of content formats it can contain. And unlike radio or television broadcasts, the recipient can listen or view at their leisure, choosing for themselves when and where they wish to listen or view a podcast.

What Is Podcasting

FeedWeaver
Feedweaver is a web-based tool that performs a simple yet interesting operation: combining multiple RSS feeds into one. An alternate solution is RSSmesh, a PHP script that merges multiple RSS feeds.

The Mayo Clinic Has RSS Feeds
The Mayo Clinic has made RSS feeds available to cover a variety of health and medical related topics.

Automating RSS Submisssions
If you are interested in automating submissions to RSS Search Engines and Directories give RSS Submit a try. RSS Submit uses a combined method of automatic submissions and auto-filling web page submit forms to automate the process of submitting your RSS feeds, publishing your content, and getting more traffic with proven results.

RSS Submit is extremely easy to use. Automatic RSS feed detection allows you to enter the domain of your web site and let RSS Submit find the locations of your feeds. Integration with FeedBurner and Technorati statistics lets you track hits to your RSS feeds right from within the software.

Blog Connection
Great resource for bloggers at Blog Connection.

Tips for More Efficient RSS Feed Reading
Take the time to learn the keyboard shortcuts for your feed reader. I can get through the material more quickly when I use a few keys to navigate through the content. In my case, NetNewsWire lets you use arrow keys, the space bar and other keys to navigate through the content, mark items as read andunread, open in a browser, collapse and expand folders, and more. Navigating the menu items to find these functions can sometimes take more time than you realize.

Tips for More Efficient RSS Feed Reading

New Center for Disease Control RSS Feeds
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just launched RSS feeds for two of the most popular sections of its emergency.CDC.gov Web site.

The new RSS feeds are Recent Outbreaks and Incidents and Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity.

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

Stimulus Via RSS Feed
For each of the near term reporting requirements, major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports agencies are required to provide a feed of the information so that content can be delivered via subscription.

Typeface Font RSS Feeds
Large collection RSS feeds about fonts and typefaces.

Mail2Feed
Mail2Feed is an RSS feed tool that allows you to read emails in your favorite feed reader

Software Industry Conference - Boston MA July 16-18 Registration Open
Discounted early bird registration is open for this years Software Industry Conference. The conference will be held in Boston Massachusetts, July 16-18th. There are also dozens of informative, educational breakout sessions covering a wide variety of topics. And if that is not enough there are three nights jam packed with plenty of time to mingle with other attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors including an Exhibit Night featuring the best software development products and services. Early bird registration is only $249.00. There is also a student option for only $50.00.

RSS Namespaces Explained
RSS Namespaces Explained

Unusual Things that May Effect Search Ranking
You may not realize the impact the following items have on your search engine ranking but they are worth considering when developing a plan for your website. While Google provides a whole host of great tools, their motivation may be more selfish than you believe. Google uses the information they gather in these tools to make determinations about websites. The information they gather may impact the ranking of your website in organic searches for important keyword phrases.

Unusual Things that Can Impact Search Ranking

Updated List of RSS Submissions
We have updated the list of sites that you can submit RSS feeds and blogs to. We removed all the dead links. Please let us know if you have any additions.

Trackle RSS Alerts
Trackle.com provides real-time personalized RSS feeds of the latest crime in a user’s neighborhood, fluctuating airline ticket prices, how much a user’s house value is down this week, updated job listings, sports scores and much more.

Chart of Mime Types
Great chart of Mime Types for those interested in including files in the enclosure field of an RSS feed.

Watch RSS Feeds
MappedUp is a software application that tracks a large number of RSS news sources and displays their latest items on a world map.

Japan to Bring Libel Charges Over Blog Posts
Japanese police said Thursday they would charge more than a dozen people for defamatory posts on a comedians blog alleging he was involved in a murder, in one of the countrys first cases of its kind.

Web users wrote messages on the website of the 37-year-old comedian, whose identify was not released, alleging that he was involved in the 1988 murder of a teenage girl, police said.

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Yahoo RSS Ads End
According to an email sent to publishers. Yahoo will be ending their Ads in RSS program effective February 2, 2009.

Twitter Value
A new tool to assess the value of your Twitter account - TweetValue as Dave Collins posted on his software marketing twitter feed it will be awhile before I can retire ;-)

Folder RSS
Folder-RSS is a small application that allows you to specify a folder and how you want that folder to be monitored. Using the command line—the author includes a sample batch file and a detailed list of the command line parameters—you can set it to monitor a whole directory or just certain sub-folders, set filters for specific file types, and limit the age of changed files monitored. If you mess up on the terminal syntax, Folder-RSS pops up a detailed menu of the right way to type your preferences.

Webmaster Resources
Great collection of resources and tools for webmasters. The website includes a variety of search engine optimization tools, link checkers, keyword tools, and articles related to search marketing and web design.

Huge List of Podcasting Tools
Check out this Huge List of Podcasting Tools in addition to the Huge List of RSS Tools.