Archive for January 17th, 2007

Not all RSS readers can play podcasts

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

The Splashcast blog has an interesting post on the RSS readers that can display podcast entries. While the most popular online and desktop RSS readers can play video and audio podcasts, I was surprised to learn that many couldn’t. Newsgator, for instance, can’t. It seems that we have more tools to create podcast content than [...]

RSS relevance in real life

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

There are very few instances when online technoloy finds its way into real life. But RSS is making that transition, at least in entertainment.
The iPhone serves as a conduit for video podcasts to the TV. And recently, Gizmodo had a story about the iMate Momento, a picture frame with a wifi receiver that changes photos [...]

Successful Blog Indexing with Google Webmaster Tools

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Google provides a set of webmaster tools, free, to push new blog posts into the Google search engine as quickly as possible. The concept is simple - instead of waiting for Google to find you, you give Google the information the second it is published.
Search is vital to the health of any business, and though [...]