AOL’s Instant Messaging, affectionately known by teenagers everywhere as AIM, has released a new version that supports RSS. The new implementation of RSS called, ”Buddy Updates” allows AIM users to set up RSS feeds which let their friends know when they’ve updated their accounts or profiles on popular online destinations like YouTube, Xanga, and Dig.
Cary Sherman the President of the RIAA defined Fair Use and expressed his concern that it was being twisted far beyond what the original framers intended.
Like a trademark that becomes generic, the fair use doctrine is in danger of losing its meaning and value if CEA’s self-serving claims are taken at face value. CEA has twisted and contorted “fair use” beyond its true intent, turning it into a free pass for those who simply don’t want to pay for creative works.
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This is an interesting article, with a moral to boot.
Don’t let someone else host your business blog. Ever.
According to the article, WordPress sent out a letter to their customers warning that any sponsored or paid blog entries are grounds for immediately deletion of their blog and a permanent ban from using the service in the future.
Page2RSS is a free service that creates an RSS feed for web pages that do not have an RSS feed available.
The following: Google Wish List shows where Google has stumbled with regards to RSS. In fact of the 17 items listed, RSS is the focus of 3 of the items.
1. Usenet and RSS.
Please, I’m begging, (groveling if it will help) create RSS feeds for Google Groups keyword searches. Think of the value, you could monitor Usenet for company or product names using RSS feeds. This would be an extremely easy way for businesses (and Google users) to stay in tune with what is being said on Usenet and in forums about specific topics.
6. Google Alerts via RSS.
The current Google alert system is from the 1990’s (figuratively speaking) please offer an option to receive Google alerts via RSS feeds. I know you can setup a Google News search using RSS, it seems silly that it is not available via Google Alerts.
16. Make an RSS Search Engine.
Why hasn’t Google done this? I am baffled. The blog search engine is not an RSS search engine, consider the power of being able to search ALL RSS feeds. There are a number of small RSS search engine portals available but there is not a clear leader, this is where Google could and should be.
Read the complete Google Wish List