Monthly Archives: July 2005

MyJeeves Adds Support for Tags 1

Looks like MyJeeves had added support for tagging:The first impulse was to blur the line between foldering and tagging by merging them into topics…. This is the approach Longhorn seems to be taking – sorry, I meant Vista…which sounds far less intimidating – and dagnabit if it didn’t work.

Amazon Wishlist Feeds 1

This Amazon Wishlist Syndication is a pretty cool hack (though from March).There’s a JavaScript version that you can get here:And an RSS version which is just an HTTP URL:http://www.xanadb.com/wishlist/rss/1HMMRFE80JJR0Feel free to subscribe…

Technorati Language Categorization 0

Dave talks about Technorati’s language categorization: While we’ve been building out and scaling the infrastructure, we haven’t stopped innovating and rolling out new features! Yesterday we released a beta language filtering service – this lets you filter search results by language, one of the top feature requests from our users. … … We think our [...]

Napsterization’s Blog Search Review 0

Marry Hodder has put together a review of blog comparison tools (part one is here). One glaring omissions right off the bat here is Rojo. Rojo already provides this functionality along with Technorati, Bloglines, and Feedster.

BlogPulse2RSS – Blogpulse Profiles in RSS 0

BlogPulse2RSS/1.01: BlogPulse2RSS/1.01 provides a free BlogPulse-to-RSS interface. Enter your Blog URL and you’ll receive a custom RSS 2.0 feed with the results from BlogPulse Profiles. If you haven’t played with Blogpulse Profiles yet then I suggest you take the time. Here’s an example of Boing Boing’s profile. Back in the day I thought of implementing [...]

MSN Screensaver with RSS 0

Microsoft has released an MSN Screensaver with RSS: We launched a beta version of the MSN Screen Saver (you can find it at http://screensaver.msn.com) last week. … Personalized news (via RSS): choose MSN feeds or add your own RSS feeds. Mouse over headlines to see more info, or click to read the full story (if [...]

Adding Microformats to Odeo 0

Sweet. It looks like the gang at Odeo is adding Microformats: Today we added support for microformats to our html on the site. Microformats are machine readable semantic markup which are transparently overlaid within our pages. We added support for rel-tag, rel-enclosure, and xfn. If a microformat emerges for time-shifted media and podcasting then we’ll [...]

My AOL Shipped with RSS 0

It looks like AOL has shipped an RSS aggregator in the form of My AOL. I had a chance to play with it tonight. Generally speaking I’m not impressed. If current aggregators are second generation then I’d say this is about generation .5. I wish them the best but they have a lot of catching [...]

You have your Atom in my RSS! 0

Tim Bray talks about Atomifying your RSS feed: Use RSS 2.0 RSS 2.0 is semantically very close to Atom 1.0, close enough to make Atomic RSS practical. I suspect doing this with RSS 0.9 would be difficult. I’m pretty sure that RSS 1.0 would be doable, but I won’t pay the RDF Tax, so someone [...]

RSS in PDF? 3

Well if you’ve ever needed an RSS feed in a PDF format then here’s your chance. Though to be honest I’m not sure why you’d want to do this. Someone enlighten me.