Track Prices on Amazon with RSS
Thanks Sarah for pointing this out to me!! There’s a tool called RSStalker that lets you track price changes on Amazon by RSS. You can have feeds for your entire wishlist or a specific item. Also, from...
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Is something up with Bloglines or are people writing less? I usually have hundreds of things to read (thousands if I do my homework like I should) – and yet I’ve been able to keep up lately. Also, all...
View ArticleThoughts on Google Reader
So today I switched to Google Reader. My husband has been raving about it – and a bunch of librarian buddies were using it at CIL. Here are my first impressions. I can’t share my subscription list –...
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Back to Bloglines
Well, you can’t say I didn’t give it a real try – after sticking with Google Reader I just couldn’t get over the problems I was having – so I’m back at Bloglines with an updated (shareable) list of...
View ArticleGoogle Burner?
I just read that Google is considering buying FeedBurner. At first it didn’t really surprise or worry me – but then I read this: With this deal, Google can integrate both AdWords and, soon, DoubleClick...
View ArticleGoogle Buys Feedburner – it’s official
Boy – today I just keep finding confirmation of every buy out I’ve talked about in the last month. First it was Ebay and StumbleUpon now it’s Google and Feedburner. FeedBurner, which has more than...
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Penguin RSS
Via RSS Compendium Blog: Penguin, the UK book publisher, has published a page containing its RSS feeds This is very neat – mostly because when I lived in England they had a promotion going on. 1 pound...
View ArticleBloglines Beta
Most you know that I’m one of those people who stuck with Bloglines when everyone migrated over to Google Reader. Well, the pay off is here! Bloglines has announced a new Bloglines Beta and it’s slick!...
View ArticleMore on Bloglines Beta
I didn’t get a chance to do a thorough testing of Bloglines Beta yet, but there is a detailed post over at Read/Write Web that you might be interested in. I’ll continue to test it out, but for now:...
View ArticleCollege & University Feed Directory
I can’t personally find a use for this – but it’s so neat I still want to share it with you (who knows you might be looking for just this thing). Peterson’s now has a College & University Feed...
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Yahoo! Pipes
Okay – I have to admit, I had no clue what the heck Yahoo! Pipes were all about. I read about them in the beginning and was lost, but thanks to Mashing Up Multiple Web Feeds Using Yahoo! Pipes, an...
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Yahoo Pipes – Take 2
I wrote a short while ago about finally understanding how to use Yahoo! Pipes and since then I’ve been playing. I have come up with a pretty complicated looking Pipe that does something so simple –...
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My RSS Feed
After upgrading to the new release of WordPress I went from 2000 readers to 900 – that means that my plugin that counts those of you not using my FeedBurner feed doesn’t work with the new release (or...
View ArticleRSS for TV Addicts
Well – real TV addicts have DVR or Tivo or some such way to get new episodes, but if you can’t afford those and want to keep up with your new TV shows, mytvrss looks pretty neat!! Select your favorite...
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What happened to Bloglines?
Why are my folders all wonky? Is anyone else seeing this on Bloglines Beta? [update] Looks better now – must have been a glitch [/update] Technorati Tags: bloglines Related posts: More on Bloglines...
View ArticleRSS to Email Suggestions
Hi all! I’m looking for recommendations for the best RSS to Email tools out there. I still get people asking me how to get RSS updates via email so I want to offer them good suggestions and I haven’t...
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Bloglines Down
I don’t mind down time once in a while – I’m only writing about this because it’s the friendliest error message I’ve ever seen. It looks like the people at Bloglines are throwing a party Related posts:...
View ArticleLibrary Association Rant
Okay, so part of my job is to keep up with news from libraries and seek speaking engagements on open source. The best way for me to do this is to subscribe to not only the big association feeds and...
View ArticleNew Google Blog Search
I keep reading about the new Google Blog Search and how it’s supposed to be a Techmeme killer – but I don’t see why. I read Techmeme via RSS – and I don’t see any such option on the new Google Blog...
View ArticleSwitching from Bloglines
I’ve read a few people complaining about Bloglines recently and it seems that people are moving to Google Reader. I have tried Google Reader several times – and have looked at it recently and it’s...
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Mark All Read
That’s right, I spent nearly all day catching up on blogs and I still have 4000 entries to read, so I had to do it …. As terrifying as it is that I missed something – it’s also a huge weight off my...
View ArticleGoogle Reader Pet Peeve
So, in getting started again with reading blogs and writing here I decided to go through my Google Reader account and clean things up. I’m actually very surprised that three years after my last Google...
View ArticleRSS Dying?
I’ve been using RSS since before we had aggregators, since before we used it to keep up with blogs and other social sites. I was using RSS to syndicate content from other sites on to my own back in the...
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Looking for the dream RSS Reader
I’ve been hunting around for ages now and figure I should turn to my librarian friends (please no sales comments). I’m looking for my dream RSS Feed Reader. I use Android for my phone and tablet and...
View ArticleGrid Preview in Chrome
A while back I wrote about my dream RSS feed reader. This plugin does nothing to get me there, but it’s kind of cool so I figured I should share it with you all (in case it gets you closer to your...
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