Archive for March 13th, 2007

Enterprise RSS

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Channel Register explores the benefits to business of enterprise RSS. RSS has its benefits not just to executives and marketing departments in following news, but also internally to distribute news and project information. One way to do this is through a private internal blog system. However, maintaining RSS software company wide could be an IT [...]

Malware targetting RSS feed readers

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

The Darkreading security magazine posted an interesting article about the increase of a type of malware targetting RSS feed readers.
Users of desktop feed readers are particularly at risk if they don’t keep their feed readers up to date with the latest security additions.
And while practically all RSS feed readers prohibit execution of javascript [...]

Feedmaker feed scraper

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

By accident I found a new automatic feed scraper service called Feedmaker. It’s a lot simpler to use than Feedyes.com which means it gives a lot fewer filtering options (Feedmaker only allows word filtering). And it’s a lot less robust than Feed43.com which allows full customisation of what goes into the feed and what the [...]