I’m late figuring this out, but WSJ.com is now offering RSS feeds (I found out about it from reading Nick Bradbury’s blog). Of course, this is tremendous news. The feeds number only 13 so far, and will only have headlines for non-subscribers. The good news: Walt Mossberg is available in XML. The bad news: the weekly… Read More »
An alternative to RSS? Or an advance? Or can the two sit together? Canada’s Serence will today announce a new version of KlipFolio, which describes itself as a a ‘uniquely powerful and globally-adopted information awareness and notification platform’ but could probably be better termed a variation of RSS that uses a proprietary software and a… Read More »
An excellent way to collect news, particularly if you’re U.S.-based. The new Topix.net doesn’t look that great, but it’s simple and easy to configure. Most importantly, you can grab topics as XML feeds, straight into your RSS reader (or to your Yahoo homepage if you prefer). If you live in a U.S. town, you can… Read More »
The future of newsfeeds: Trackable RSS. The biggest drawback to the commercial exploitation of RSS feeds — items from blogs and other websites, parceled up and delivered to users who request them — is that there’s no easy way for the producers of the RSS material to know very much about what their customers are… Read More »
Here’s an interesting twist to RSS (Real Simple Syndication, a way to channel material into feeds) that shows the format could have a life beyond blogs. iUpload, “a net-native content management solution provider”, has just introduced a free service that allows companies to avoid the legal pitfalls and technology filters of the spam world to… Read More »