Posts Tagged ‘rss-feed’

RSS Feeds That Interest Customers

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Offering content that is of interest to consumers is an important part of building Web traffic. One way to do this is to offer an RSS feed that provides interesting content. When you offer services that are useful and interesting to potential customers, they are more likely to turn into actual customers.
RSS ideas
RSS content that [...]

The History Channel’s Video Deal

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

I recently mentioned the History Channel had an RSS feed of their show listings.  While that’s not yet a blog, it’s a great start and an easy way to help people know what show are currently playing.  As an avid History Channel viewer, that was the one thing the channel was lacking was a viewing [...]

NBC News For Sale in iTunes

Friday, May 26th, 2006

iTunes is now selling NBC News for $1.99 per download.  The collection includes older NBC News offerings and more current events and news as well:
Available programming also includes classic
television moments from NBC News and new programs produced especially
for iTunes. Programming from NBC News is priced at $1.99 per download,
and offerings include current and historical programming [...]

Support the Universal Feed Icon

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Picture from Rogers Cadenhead:

It’s time for a universal icon to be adopted.  If Microsoft can adopt Mozilla’s feed button, the least we can do is do the same.  (via)

RSS Feed’s Misuse: Feed Hijacking?

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Syndicating someone’s feed ON your site is not an uncommon practice.  Notice at the top right-hand section of this page, we’ve pulled the RSS feeds of several different weblogs and podcasts. 
However, if there’s syndicated news on a blogsite, you can be assured it is there with permission of the owner of the site.
But, if [...]

FeedBurner and USA Today Partner for RSS

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

FeedBurner was quick to announce their partnership with USA Today to provide analytics for their RSS feeds. 
FeedFoundry allows commercial publishers to manage hundreds and thousands of feeds with a simple dashboard. Tag feeds to form subcollections for comparative reporting. Manage feeds in bulk, applying sets of services across large collections of feeds with one [...]

Part 3: Controversial topics will bring traffic and danger.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

This is part of a Four-part series on getting online influencers to notice your content. 
Scroll down for the others in the seriers. 
Part 3:  Controversial topics will bring traffic and danger.  Tread Softly.
Asking someone to view your latest post isn’t difficult, but because so many of these net influencers get hundreds of requests like [...]

Even the Speaker of the House Has a Blog

Friday, October 28th, 2005

You know that blogging is becoming mainstream when even traditional, long-time politicians start their own blogs.  Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives posted the first post to his new blog yesterday. 
Speaker Hastert talked about his motivations for blogging and the upcoming plans for the republican party.  This first post was content-driven and [...]

Audio Podcasting Experiment Gone Wrong: Know the RSS standards

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

It is really interesting how much mis-information there is about podcasting online. Podcasting is not merely putting an audio file online. Many people put a audio file on a website and then say they are podcasting.  This is the most common mistake that newcomers to the podcasting technology make. Podcasting is an RSS 2.0 feed [...]