Archive for the ‘RSS/RSS Aggregators’ Category

RSS in the Loo

Posted by Nicole on December 11th, 2005 under Just for Fun, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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This new invention will be a great help to those of us who can’t keep up with our RSS feeds … the rsstroom reader is:
a bathroom gadget that prints news feeds onto your T-P - that’s right, your TOILET PAPER! The best part is the “biometrics” toilet seat that’ll figure out who you are based [...]

HTML Pages to RSS

Posted by Nicole on December 7th, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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RSS Scraper is a nifty little tool that lets you notify people of updates to your HTML pages with RSS.
If you have an item in your page you'd like to include in the RSS feed e.g:New product this week!Just released! This book will increase your business profits by 1000%
You simply need to put <span class=”rss:item”> [...]

Amazon Keyword Watch

Posted by Nicole on December 5th, 2005 under Online Tools & Tips, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Now you can generate RSS feeds to watch for specific item on Amazon. The Amazon Keword Watch tool asks for your location, product group, keywords, and sort type; then it generates an RSS feed for you to subscribe to. That's not all … you can also make a TinyURL right from the form. Nifty!

Get the scoop

Posted by Nicole on November 27th, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I just found this new service … and it's not in beta! It's called ScoopGO! and it lets you put together you own little search engine. ScoopGO! has you set up your own scoops by choosing related RSS feeds to lump together … and then makes them searchable. One of there examples:
Scoop [...]

Package Tracking with RSS

Posted by Nicole on November 27th, 2005 under Online Tools & Tips, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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This is a nifty little tool. Simple Tracking offers a way for you to track your holiday packages with RSS. Simple Tracking will let you plug in any UPS, USPS, FedEx or DHL number and it will either let you generate an RSS feed or immediately display your tracking information. I don't [...]

Find more RSS feeds

Posted by Nicole on November 25th, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I found a new tool on the RSS Compendium Blog called RSS MAD.
RSS MAD is the largest archive of RSS feeds on [...]

Another way to get RSS Feeds

Posted by Nicole on November 22nd, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I just found this new tool called immedi.at. What does it do? It IMs you when new items are posted to RSS or Atom feeds you're monitoring. Personally, I don't need to be bombarded all day with messages about new posts & news … but maybe it's something you're interested in.

RSS Submit

Posted by Nicole on November 22nd, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I was just reading on LISNews about RSS Submit Software. It's free, but you have to install it … so I'm wondering why I'd want to use this instead of pingoat or Ping-O-Matic which are online and don't require an install?

Another bloglines comment

Posted by Nicole on November 20th, 2005 under Blogs/Blogging, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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The other day I did a search for my blog on Bloglines and I came up with 2 results. I assumed that they were both the same so I only clicked one and saw that there were 63 subscribers …. WOW … then yesterday morning when I looked at my subscription to my blog in [...]

Bloglines - not quite as handy as I had hoped

Posted by Nicole on November 18th, 2005 under Blogs/Blogging, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I started using Bloglines at about the same time I started this blog so that I could keep up with what others in the field were writing about … but I'm starting to wonder if it's really the best option.
I have 160 feeds I'm tracking, it's hard enough to keep up with all of them [...]

Get your Blog/Feed Noticed

Posted by Nicole on November 17th, 2005 under Blogs/Blogging, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Wow I have a lot of work to do. I just read part of the summary of the Collaboration, Social Software and E-Learning presentation at the KMWorld & Intranets conference that's going on right now … and they mention a site with the top 55 sites to submit your blog/rss feed to … but [...]

New blog posts via Email

Posted by Nicole on November 17th, 2005 under Blogs/Blogging, Email, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Some people aren't fans of RSS … or just don't get it … for people like that there are 2 services (that I know of) that may be of interest to you. One I learned about awhile ago, Rmail lets you put in the address of the RSS feed you want to get via [...]

Another RSS Tool

Posted by Nicole on November 16th, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Can you tell that I have just started reading some of these feeds? Yesterday I had over 3000 posts to read … today I'm down to 1500 (no I didn't read them all). Once I catch up on all of the great blogs out there my daily posting will probably dwindle to … well let's [...]

Find More Journals with RSS

Posted by Nicole on November 15th, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I mentioned the listing of Electonic Journals with RSS a couple of days ago … and today I found the Cambridge Journals Online list with more Electonic Journals.
I can't wait to figure out how to use these two new sites for our library!

Online Books Page via RSS

Posted by Nicole on November 15th, 2005 under Books, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I just found out by browsing my ever growing list of library blogs that The Online Books Page at UPenn has an RSS for new books. How handy is that?! Thanks RSS4Lib & Library Stuff for pointing it out … ages ago

RSS 2 PDF

Posted by Nicole on November 14th, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Oh COOL!! I visit Syndic8 frequently, but I never thought to click any of the little buttons on the left of each feed. I just clicked the RSS 2 PDF button on my feed for this site and it generated a PDF with the info from my feed! See the results. [...]

Convert Atom Feeds to RSS Feeds

Posted by Nicole on November 14th, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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On our Intranet at work, I use a PHP class (lastRSS) to read RSS feeds and publish them for our staff … but this script only works for RSS feeds, so I frequently use this handy Atom2RSS tool from 2RSS.

Create an RSS for any page

Posted by Nicole on November 13th, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I just read about a handy little tool on blogwithoutalibrarian. It's called FeedTier and it generates a feed for a static page.
FeedTier is a web feeds generator for web pages without an existing syndication format. FeedTier performs content [...]

Find Journals with RSS Feeds

Posted by Nicole on November 9th, 2005 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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I read about this neat tool on the Neat New Stuff blog. It's a listing of Electronic Journals that offer RSS feeds from the University of Saskatchewan.