Alex King recently announced he was leaving Feedlounge.

As a total outside observer, I was surprised.

Feedlounge was a two person partnership between Alex King and Scott Sanders. Alex was the interface designer behind Feedlounge. The ONLY reason I am willing to pay for Feedlounge is because of the interface. Simple. Easy. [...]

Several months ago, a symbol was introduced to represent all RSS feeds:

Does such a symbol exist for Atom feeds?

Copyblogger posted this morning about the difficulties the term RSS faces as it is introduced to the general public.

I have read similar posts across the web. There seems to be a growing discontent with the term. This site tries to be geared towards beginners. So thinking like a beginner this morning, I [...]

The folks over at marketingstudies.net are conducting a survey of RSS use. Whether you are a casual or serious user of RSS technologies, I suggest you mosey over and give them your feedback. Include your email address with your response and you will receive a copy of the results.

RSS Marketing Survey

[tags]rss, [...]

As I mentioned in the previous post, pingomatic had some overload issues at the beginning of this year. Performance was getting spotty. Well, as of one week ago, they have new hardware and should see more stable and consistent performance. I have switched back to pingomatic and see how things go.

WordPress users automatically [...]

Some readers may be using Pingoat as their main ping service. Changes are afloat at Pingoat that you should be aware of. First, pingoat was sold. Second, the new owners plan some changes. According to their blog the changes will be the following:

1. We will have to stop all the free offsite [...]

I have been using Feedlounge for the last month and while I knew it had keyboard shortcuts I had not, up until now, used them.

Hitting the spacebar does two things: marks an item as read and scrolls the page to the full view of the next item. Ok, I can forget about using [...]

There are generally two species of RSS Readers. Web based readers (Bloglines, Pluck, Rojo, Newsgator) provide the ability to read RSS content via a web browser. Client readers (Abilon, FeedDemon) are RSS applications that are installed locally on a PC. The two main goals of RSS Readers has been 1) the ability to read content [...]

Findory is a computer generated news aggregator that offers personalization based on users reading habits.

Findory serves up headlines and descriptions in two broad categories: News and Blogs. Each of these is then broken down into typical sub-categories: politics, sports, tech, etc.

Each time a user clicks on a story to read, Findory [...]

I think I have forgotten why I have been looking forward to Feedlounge‘s beta release. I guess it is because I am still looking for the bigger and better online RSS feed reader and aggregator. After a long wait, there is finally a beta release date: January 16th, 2006. The bummer, though, is [...]

Want to know about emerging Web 2.0 applications? Check out eHub. eHub is a growing list of Web 2.0 applications. There is some cool stuff on there. A cursory glance over the list and I realize I have not heard of the majority of the tools. Well, at least not yet.

Pingoat is a service that pings/notifies other blog services sites. Do we need another one of these?

The two major advantages that Pingoat “may” hold over others are the number of services it pings (just around 50) and the international scope of those services.

Since I am a WordPress user, I use Ping-o-matic to [...]

Blog Flux is a new blog directory that offers five kinds of services:

Blog Directory
Button Maker
PageRank Checker
Pinger
Subscription Service

Overall, there are several things I like about this site. First off, the design is very clean and simple. A lot of blog directories look cluttered and [...]

Yes, another blog directory. However, judging by my own server logs, this directory is actively used.

Feeds4All offers all the basics a directory should. Blogs and feeds are categorized. Users may search by category or by searching for keywords. A keyword search finds relevant articles within the feeds, not feeds that are about [...]

Below are examples of using Grouper to turn Google News into an RSS Feed.

The first example simple uses Grouper in default mode. Grouper uses Google News by default.

<?php
require_once ‘/home/recommen/grouper/grouper.php’;
GrouperShow(‘”search terms”‘);
?>

The search terms have double quotes around them to perform an exact phrase search.
[...]

GrouperShow is used to fetch and display a news feed. This should not be used to make pretty displays of the news feed. It will simply generate the xml sturcture and display it as such (some browsers will even display it without line breaks)

The GrouperShow command requires at least a search term string. There [...]

On my Web Resources Page I have added a list of my fifteen most recently Spurled (bookmarked) webpages. I will be spurling webpages that I feel might be helpful to RWT readers. There is a link as well to my Spurl feed. Add the feed to your RSS Reader to easily keep track of [...]

Bloggernity is another Blog Directory/Blog Search Engine.

Other than the directory and search capabilities there is no feature that truly distinguishes it from other blog directories. However, I have received a little bit of traffic from the site. That, in itself, is worth the time to submit your site.