Nick Bradbury does a good job summarizing RSS auto discovery practices and mentions that auto-discovery is now commonplace. For webmasters struggling consider using this free autodiscovery code generator. It basically does the work for you!
An RSS VCL Control and ActiveX components makes it simple for software developers to communicate with users from within your software application! Integrate the RSS components into your application, to communicate with users. Use standard RSS feeds and provide users. All you have to do is add the component to your existing project. Set the URL to your RSS feed, and let it do the rest. You can then ask the control for types of information from your RSS feed. Send sales messages, tech support tips and notify users of new releases and product launches. The RSS Component is now available free of charge. Simply contact the manufacturers and you will receive an unlock code free of charge.
This website claims to be attempting to categorize 1 million feeds. The categories are a little obscure but I like the web snapshots and the search appears to work well.
Podcasts started out as fun ways for ambitious garage DJs, independent musicians and talk show hosts, who had not ventured into radio broadcasting as a way to show their stuff and make a name for themselves. What started as a hobby for many, has turned into a lucrative profession for some.
Not surprisingly, podcasters, just like radio stations, have looked for ways to profit from their on-air dialogue.
Blogs are 10 years old, and CNET decided to dig into the origin of the blog. Interesting exchange:
Was the first blogger the irascible Dave Winer? The iconoclastic Jorn Barger? Or was the first blogger really Justin Hall, a Web diarist and online gaming expert whom The New York Times Magazine once called the “founding father of personal blogging”? Or did all three merely make incremental improvements on earlier proto-blogs?
CNet article on Origin of Blogs
The FeedYes website is being auctioned off. The current confirmed high bid is $ 24,000. Details on the FeedYes website are available on the auction page.
Starting an RSS feed or is not difficult to attract readers, it is however difficult to retain readers. By following a few simple unwritten rules you will find your subscriber base swell.
This site has taken an interesting approach aggregating all the presidential candidate feeds side by side for a comparison.
How is each presidential candidate using blogs? Take a side-by-side peek at what the 2008 presidential campaigns are talking about. Missing candidates aren’t a political statement; these are the only candidates that offer content syndication.
Politickr
Get the latest RSS Scripts, new versions are available:
RSS2HTML - free PHP script for dipslaying RSS feeds as HTML web pages.
RSS Cache - module to speed up the display of RSS feed items.
RSS2HTML Pro - expands the functionality of RSS2HTML by allowing publishers and webmasters to dynamically create an index of feed items.
RSSMesh - merge multiple RSS feeds into a single feed.
FutureRSS - dipslays only current RSS feed items.
SQL2RSS - create RSS feeds from an MySQL database.
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Consider following these simple podcasting tips to get the most from your podcast and make it stand out from other podcasts in the crowd.