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Submit Your RSS Feeds

A little over a year ago, I asked readers to share their RSS feed with me. I did this out of concern that my news sources would consist of nothing but “A-listers” and I’d miss out on the insights of those that wrote fantastic posts, but hadn’t yet found the spotlight. It’s time to do it again!

The Buzz Surrounding Live Mesh

For three years now I’ve wondered “what is Ray Ozzie up to?” And with this announcement you see just why he’s Microsoft’s CTO. Yeah, there are about 100 smart people working on Microsoft’s new “Live Mesh” which was turned on tonight, but this is Ray’s coming out party, as much as anything.

Jaiku - One Of The First Apps On The Google App Engine

This interesting update comes via the Jaiku blog... Today we’re taking off our welding goggles to announce Jaiku will be one of the first apps to run on the new Google App Engine. See also www.jaiku.com App Engine is an interesting concept (I'm not terribly familiar with it) but its free for developers to get started and seems like a real time (and money) saver...

Bloglines Users Abandon Ship

When a company's last press release was put out in June of 2005, it's probably wise not to expect a quick response.  Still, users of RSS reader Bloglines are disappointed (and increasingly angry) following a long outage.

Aweber to Report Email Sububscriber Numbers To Feedburner

I have been quite vocal in my encouraging Aweber to add some more control to the way they handle RSS to Email, and I am glad to say they have now added some very flexible date and time based controls. This means that they totally blow Feedburner Email subscription away as far as features are concerned. Apart from one important aspect. Exclusive: Aweber Will Soon Report Email Sububscriber Numbers To Feedburner In the announcement Justin Premick mentioned

Marks Post Link Bait?

I recently spotted a blog post by Adam Senour over at Walk My Path. The post outlines why Gene Marks is right on certain comments from the blog post. I must say I didn’t think I would find someone defending Gene marks comments like Adam has.

Marks Misses the Mark on "Tech Solutions"

OK folks I can’t take mainstream media much longer. They are so out of touch with what is really happening online it is simply ridiculous. Take the latest offering from Gene Marks at MSNBC:

Feeds Out Of Google Search Results

Searches at Google.com won't turn up RSS or Atom feeds, with the exception of podcasts, as Google makes a change to improve the user experience.

Bloglines Beefs Up

Before we had Google Reader, the biggest kid on the RSS reader block was Bloglines. While Google has taken that title, away from the Ask.com owned service, Bloglines has been back to the gym recently and added some bulk. Bloglines has rolled out a slew of new features today, including:

Don't Throw Out the Social Media Rulebook Yet...

...use some of it as a reference guide instead.