Feedster and Eurekster Mix RSS, Blogs, and Social Search
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Feedster and Eurekster Mix RSS, Blogs, and Social Search  Feedster, Inc., the RSS feed and blog search engine, today announced that it will power RSS and blog search results for Eurekster, the Internet search engine powered by social networking technology. By integrating Feedster&rsquo;s news search technology and RSS feeds, Eurekster now ...
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.
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Dave Winer, considered by many to be the father of blogging and a pioneer of RSS feeds, offers his new technologies vision.
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"As part of the Jakarta Commons Feed Parser, I have created a Wiki page that details autodiscovery support/non-support, syndication formats, and the common locations of all syndication files across all of the major blogging services:"  Brad created  a great "Hall of Shame" for blog services which don't use autodiscovery or have problems with feed subscription.  Shame. Shame. Shame!
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Google Reader has updated to be able to show videos which have been embedded within blog posts.  Being that making the switch to fill posts in RSS feeds seems to be a new trend which is making readers happy, the ability to show videos in RSS aggregators and readers is a must for those blog [...]
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Friendster has rolled out a new internet search service powered by Eurekster that taps into your online social network to personalize and enhance search results.
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: What Is Social Search? - Keeping Track of Links - Virtual Servers and Subdomains for SEO - Advertising With Ask - How Much to Charge for PPC Work? and more.
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New site doses social networking with literate lists. Plus: Is
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Cameron Olthuis announced this morning that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will let users find what &#8220;other people are saying on the web right now.&#8221;  Serph, in limited beta testing, seems to be a bit different from Technorati or BlogPulse in terms of total social media coverage. If you&#8217;d [...]
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Feedburner feeds are being used on more and more sites.  More innovation in the RSS space is certianly a good thing.  One problem we always had is that RSS seems to have *too* much innovation. People are trying to innovate and bend and shape the RSS specification meet their needs but sometimes things can get out of control.  A recent example is what FeedBurner is doing with the 'link' element in their RSS feeds.  Lets use John Batelle's RSS feed as an example.  John has an RSS feed at:  Which is redirected to:  (I should note that FeedBurner setup a really nice CSS style for this feed but it would be nice if they added Rojo  to the list of feeds you can subscribe to... anyway... )  Now i ...
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Doc: "A year from now every newspaper will have a newsriver." I think so too because: 1. The idea is so compelling and 2. It's so easy to implement. Thanks so much to Doc Searls for writing a great evangelical piece about the power of rivers. The stream is turning into a current, and soon really will be a river.  It&#185;s so weird to see rivers show up in Facebook, and Twitter is just a big river of all the people you&#185;re following. The idea is actually a descendent of the teletype terminals that used to be in the movies (and for all I know in actual newsrooms). The news would be printed on scrolls of paper, and when a new story would come in it would push all the older stories onto the floor. You could catch up on the news by scrolling back through the news. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Katherine Hepburn did it. We&#185;ll all be doing it soon enough. And it really helps to get other people singing the song, esp from within the hallowed halls of Harvard. The more attention we get focused on it, the more other developers will tune in. And what may not be so clear from the narrative is that this project got its start from a meeting I had with some technical people at the Times last week in NY. Like most organizations, it's not of one mind, there are people who are scared of what comes next but there are others who know that the Times has to change. By opening up their internal data to me, all kinds of interesting stuff can happen. We've been here before. The Times are the unsung heroes of RSS, without them it never would have solidified, with the publishing industry falling in behind the Times. It was this consensus that created critical mass for RSS 2.0 in 2002 and 2003. I really hope some of this stuff feeds back into the Times support of RSS. And as you have seen, there are now lots of new opportunities in user interface for news. This is what I do, when I'm in my "flow" -- we're there now again, with a new toy to build and then play with, every day.  Betsy Devine: "Dave Winer has been improving the New York Times for as long as I&#185;ve known him." Phil Windley: "With more sources, who are themselves continuously updating, the keyword river could be as dynamic as you&#185;d want it to be."
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo Inc. has launched a service called Pipes designed to let regular users mix different RSS and Atom feeds and create data "mashups," a process that so far has required programming knowledge. Pipes features a drag-and-drop interface that the company hopes non-technical users will find simple and intuitive as they manipulate content syndication feeds to combine data in new and useful ways. An example of a Pipe is this one , which meshes listings from Craigslist with data from Yahoo's local search engine to display apartments for rent near any business, Yahoo said. Another one collates news about topics chosen by the user from a variety of sources. "Pipes' initial set of modules lets you assemble personalized information sources out of existing Web services and data feeds. Pipes outputs standard RSS 2.0, so you can subscribe to and read your pipes in your favorite aggregator. You can also create pipes that accept user input and run them on our servers as a kind of miniature Web application," reads Yahoo's description of the service , posted Wednesday night. While Pipes today lets users mix data from RSS and Atom feeds, Yahoo hopes to extend the service to support other data formats, Web services, processing modules and output renderings, Yahoo said. For example, Yahoo will open up access to the Pipes engine to programmers and add support for the KML data source, which is used to display geographic data in Google Inc.'s popular Google Earth mapping application and Google Maps Web site. The initial response from observers has been enthusiastic. "Yahoo's new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the Internet," Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of computer book publisher O'Reilly Media Inc., wrote on his blog . "While it's still a bit rough around the edges, it has enormous promise in turning the Web into a programmable environment for everyone." The Pipes Web site, available throughout this morning, was nonetheless down at press time, displaying the message: "Our Pipes are clogged! We've called the plumbers!"
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Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is a GTK desktop news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs. The project focus is on simplicity and easy installation.   While this release fixes several functional issues it also fixes a grave feed update bug that causes continuous feed updates in v1.4.2b when your global default feed update interval was set to zero.  Please upgrade!!!
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RSSOwl is a RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader written in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Read News in a tabfolder, save favorites in categories, Export to PDF / RTF / HTML / OPML, Import Feeds from OPML, perform fulltext-search, use internal browser.  The next version of RSSOwl is available. Finally, loading any number of feeds and aggregations is now running completly in the background allowing to open feeds while a loading is running. This not only removes the annoying "Please wait..." dialog, but also improves the performance when loading aggregations.  A comparison of time it takes loading the 130 sample favorites resulted in 14.5 seconds for RSSOwl 0.82b and 90.5 seconds for earlier versions.   Improved handling of protected newsfeeds. It is now possible to let RSSOwl remember username and password so that the user does not have to enter these information everytime the feed is loading.  A lot of bugs have been fixed. Thanks for the feedback!  See the changelog for a complete list of changes.  May the owl be with you, Ben
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OpenLink Software are pleased to announce release 2.1 of the OpenLink AJAX Toolkit (OAT).    This release introduces the following new features:     * Enhanced RDF Parser (includes support for RDF/XML and RDF/N3)    * New Faceted RDF Data Browser    * RDF Graph Visualization Control with sidebar for Graph Density manipulation    * New RSS Reader Control    * Visual SPARQL Query Builder added to + Form Designer's Data Source control    * OpenAjaxAlliance conformance    * Inter-control messaging system    * Enhanced Tree and Dock Controls    * Enhanced Anchor tag that facilitates lookups to SQL, XML, and RDF Data Sources via In Page Activation of Data Driven Web Pages    * Updated Animation API  For further information, please see:   Project homepage on sourceforge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oat   File downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oat/files   Live Features Demonstrations: http://demo.openlinksw.com/DAV/JS/demo/index.html
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Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system.  It&#8217;s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly growing [...]
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Several Web 2.0 tools unveiled by IBM have advanced the growing options for business-based social networking and data mashups.