February 18, 2007 at 10:22 am
· Filed under RSS, RSS Tracking, RSS Readers
It was good news that Google started sending subscriber details for their feed reader and interesting to see just what impact this has had on feed subscriber numbers.
Vecosys went from around 500 to over 850, Techcrunch from 160k to over 260k
Good news for Google as it shows they have a huge slice of the reader market.
However, Google say the subscribers are just those using Google Reader, it doesn’t mention those who add your feed to their Google Home Page. So, once again we are just measuring the technosphere and RSS needs more help getting into the lives of normal folk.
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October 17, 2006 at 1:51 pm
· Filed under RSS in use, RSS, RSS Readers
I thought it was worth just pointing to some tips on using SSL (https) for feeds. RSSReader tends to spit them out so I found that Steven Garrity has put together some research into feed readers that handls https feeds and feeds that use basic http authentication, it can be found here.
The results are:
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October 13, 2006 at 2:50 pm
· Filed under RSS in use, RSS, RSS Readers
Attensa have recently made available a free version of their RSS reader that slots into Outlook. You can grab a copy here.
I gave it a whirl and have to say it took a bit of getting used to. Maybe because I’m set in my feed reading ways. But, it was worth the effort, especially if you just want one application doing your communication handling.
New features include:
- 3 Attention driven “river of news” views that automatically prioritizes your feeds based on your behavior
- In-line podcasts. Yep, play your video and audio files right in the river of news view in Outlook (and guess what, even your behavior with your podcasts is yet another way our AttentionStream technology considers literally hundreds of behavioral characteristics in real-time to optimize your viewing productivity and overall experience.)
- Desktop Alerts (just like you are used to with Outlook itself, just with a bit more configuration!)
- Improved Enterprise Connectivity….there are a lot of new capabilities you asked for, and too much to mention here. For our Attensa Feed Server customers, our Outlook client simply has no equal. Call our sales folks to learn more.
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