SHOW NOTES:
In this initial show, I give a brief overview of RSS, including:
- what RSS is and what it’s used for
- how to find feeds on websites
- the variety of available feed readers
- a practical example of subscribing to a feed
Sites Referenced:
http://www.feld.com
http://www.google.com/reader
http://www.newsgator.com
http://www.netvibes.com
http://www.bloglines.com
http://www.instantinformation.com
http://www.seekingalpha.com
Also: I discovered the image collage [...]
For anyone that can remember back to Steve Job’s introduction of the Mac back in 1984, Apple’s new iPhone commercial that aired during last night’s Oscars has a bit of nostalgia to it. The picture on the right was the image used to launch the Macintosh. It was the image from the cover [...]
Last year, Google launched a suite of online office applications called Google Apps…
Google Apps is an ad supported service that includes IM and email, along with a calendar app, word processor, spreadsheet, web page editor, and personalized portal home page. Despite being fairly basic functionality wise, these applications take advantage of their web [...]
For anyone that needed to fly JetBlue this past week, it was a tough ride…
Ice storms in the northeast grounded many flights and caused JetBlue to suffer a ‘cascade failure’ in its flight operations. Scheduled crews couldn’t get to their destinations, and available crews couldn’t be quickly matched to flights, causing additional cancelations. [...]
I love creative and useful mashups…
I recently found one that is really interesting - iConcertCal. It is a plugin for iTunes that looks at the music you have in your library and gives you a calendar of upcoming concerts in your area from any artists/bands it finds.
It uses multiple sources on the web to [...]
An interesting set of videos have made the rounds over the past few weeks…
They show people how to get an invitation to a beta for an as yet unannounced “Google TV” service by performing some quirky steps with their GMail account. They are clearly well produced pieces, offering specific details of the steps needed to [...]
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