Tag: RSS
Niall Kennedy writes about the new visual editing interface called "Pipes":
Yahoo! Pipes lets any Yahoo! registered user enter a set of data inputs and filter their results. You might splice a feed of your latest bookmarks on del.icio.us with the latest posts from your blog and your latest photographs posted to Flickr. You might automatically translate your favorite news sources to your native language, or only receive the 1 out of 20 news stories from your local paper that reference your town or local schools. A traditional web feed lets...
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All versions of Pluck's RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck's web edition will be discontinued on 1/5/2007.
It is sure that this market is crowded and it’s also clear that acquiring users has been very hard, both for small startups and for big enterprises. Pluck now want to focus on their other products.
Over the next two months, you will have the opportunity to export your RSS feed subscriptions to other RSS readers of your choosing. Please visit the RSS reader support pages for details on how to export your...
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If you are looking for a no frills RSS reader then this one looks an interesting option. Remember the Microsoft Codename Max is a beta, a "showcase". I actually see that some of the user interface design from Windows Vista are now coming to Windows XP (think Microsoft Codename Max, Windows Live Mail Desktop, Windows Live Messenger, and Microsoft Office 2007).
Max takes advantage of some of the latest hardware and software, including .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 and the Windows Presentation Foundation. Max also features a photo organizer to bring...
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An Open Letter from Mark Zuckerberg:
"We really messed this one up. When we launched News Feed and Mini-Feed we were trying to provide you with a stream of information about your social world. Instead, we did a bad job of explaining what the new features were and an even worse job of giving you control of them. I'd like to try to correct those errors now."
We made the site so that all of our members are a part of smaller networks like schools, companies or regions, so you can only see the profiles of people who are in your networks and...
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Facebook launched a redesign yesterday which changed the layout of the homepage and introduced a few new features. The users, mostly undergraduate students around the country, find the "News Feed" feature (shown to the right) an invasion of their privacy and "basically creepy." Using the "groups" feature of Facebook to rally together, one user, Ben Parr of Northwestern University, created a group called "Students Against Facebook News Feed." The group's description reads as follows:
"We want to feel just a LITTLE bit of privacy, even if...
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