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Entries Tagged as 'Feeds'

Pacing Your Feeds

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted some good advice about how to keep up with all of the RSS feeds in your reader. Boiled down to the essence: 1) You need an efficient reading mechanism (I use and recommend Google Reader.) 2) You need to keep your feeds organized so they make sense to you 3) You need [...]

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Tags: Feeds · How-To

RESTful Spam Mashup: Get Throw-Away Email in an RSS Feed

August 29th, 2007 · No Comments

There are a variety of temporary email services out there in internetland, perfect for signing up at websites where you need the goods but are distrustful of the privacy policy. The ironic problem with many of these services is that you have to create an account and use your real email address. One nifty alternative [...]

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Tags: Feeds · How-To

Atom nearly done, but can it compete with RSS?

July 26th, 2007 · No Comments

With the announcement that the Atom 1.0 specification is essentially done, it now moves into the process of becoming a full-fledged IETF specification. Atom has been a promising alternative to RSS 2.0, but has only a fraction of the market share of syndicated feeds. Can it really compete? Pros and Controversies For those who are [...]

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