Archive for August 15th, 2005

rss-extensions.org

August 15, 2005 in RSS, aggregation, syndication

And as it marches forward, increasingly many extensions to RSS are proposed to meet special requirements that the general-purpose RSS specification (http://blogs.law.harward.edu/tech/rss) was never meant to address.The recent high-profile adoption, with extensions, of RSS by Microsoft and Apple are but two examples of this trend. But how do you know what RSS extensions have been defined already, where they have been defined, and how you can avoid re-inventing what somebody else has created already?This is the problem this site is meant to solve.

Feedster 500

August 15, 2005 in RSS, aggregation, feedster, search, syndication

In response to the controversy around the Technorati Top 100 it looks like Feedster has released their top 500 blogs:Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs. Enjoy browsing to see what people are reading, to find feeds that will bring topics of interest to you on a regular basis, and to discover new voices in the Blogosphere.

11% of blog readers use RSS

August 15, 2005 in aggregation, search, syndication

Looks like The Blog Herald found a Nielsen NetRatings survey where they report that » 11% of blog readers use RSS:According to Nielsen NetRatings’ “Understanding the Blogosphere” survey of 1000 people, nearly five percent of blog readers use feed aggregation software and more than six percent use a feed aggregating Web site to monitor RSS feeds from blogs.“While RSS is an established technology, the growing popularity of blogs has catapulted RSS into the spotlight as a content personalization tool,” said Jon Gibs, senior research manager, Nielsen NetRatings.The problem is that The Blog Herald didn’t cite the actual survey URL. I’ll have to dig around and find it.

Delicious Recommendations

August 15, 2005 in RSS, aggregation, search, syndication, tags

Looks like Delicious has released a new feature using recommendations:We’ve released the new recommendation engine. If you have more than ten urls saved in a tag, you will be offered several urls as well as other people’s tags that the system thinks you will be interested in. The URL pages also now offer the chance to see other related URLs.

Talk Digger + RSS feeds

August 15, 2005 in RSS, aggregation, search, syndication

It looks like Talk Digger now supports RSS export:Frédérick Giasson’s excellent Talk Digger service that searches all the leading blog tracking sites has expanded and now includes the ability to create custom RSS feeds that lets you subscribe to a Talk Digger search on a particular topic and receive the results into your favorite RSS reader.