Archive for September, 2008

RSS to Email

There is a new RSS feed to email delivery service. Checkout Feed My InBox.

SMS usage skyrockets

According to a recent survey, the average cell-phone user in the USA sent or received 357 text messages per month in the second quarter of this year, up 450 percent from just two years ago.

New RSS Directories

There are some new RSS feed directories at:

FeedBees - Has more than 100,000 RSS feeds.  

RSS Mountain - Free RSS directory that is searchable.

FeedSee - Human edited RSS directory.

More RSS Search Engines and Directories

Product descriptions are important

I’ve touched on this a few times over the years, but with the (ugh) holiday season looming I thought it worth another mention. Consumers don’t just want the best prices, they want to make informed choices - and that’s where product descriptions are so important.

Yahoo toolbar unsuitable for nukes

In the genre of “do not place your pet in this microwave” disclaimers and instructions comes this little ripper from Yahoo!

eBay USA dropping check support

eBay is cutting checks… out - on the US eBay anyway. They are removing support for money orders as well, plus making various other changes to payment options.

Phone tag in an online world

Never before has technology made us so inefficient in some ways, such as the case of the phone.

Google Founder Now Blogging

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog, candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinsons Disease and plugging his wifes genetic testing start-up firm.

While Brin is no stranger to news-making webcasts and online press announcements, he made a blogging debut Thursday by sharing personal musings in a post at the Blogger weblogging website Google bought in early 2003.

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Easy page translation - ConveyThis

Here’s a new and very easy to implement tool you can add to your site if you’d like your pages to be available in different languages.

Kindle Feeder

kindlefeeder.com 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.com is currently in beta. During the beta period, the service will be free to use, apart from Amazon’s $0.10 wireless delivery fee.


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