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Archive for the ‘RSS’ Category

July 8th, 2008

How engaged are your readers? Do you know? Soon aideRSS will give you the data soon

Jim Murphy hinted in his comment on yesterday’s post about aideRSS that cool stuff was coming soon, like really soon.  Well I bugged Melanie until I got something.  It’s a cool something too: a proof of concept of an “engagement score” for blogs and posts.:
What we really want to figure out is engagement. We want […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

July 7th, 2008

aideRSS has a new VP of Development—Jim Murphy

Coming in on a motorcycle, Jim Murphy is the new VP of Development for aideRSS.  Have to wonder what’s on his docket for his first 90 days:
Though he rode into town on a motorcycle rather than a spirited palomino, as our new VP Development, Jim won’t be wasting any time applying his know-how, creativity, and […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

June 30th, 2008

toluu keeps stepping up to the challenge

As we complain about Twitter and other services not working, it’s great when a service just keeps getting better.  Toluu wins the “let’s just make it better over time” award:
We have just launched a re-aligned ‘Match’ page with a cleaner UI and greater functionality. We have also made updates to ‘Contacts’ and feed ‘Subscribers’.
We recently […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

June 11th, 2008

Toluu cranks up the speed and let’s you check if that feed is fresh

I got word from Caleb last night that toluu was getting a wee update today.  Yeah you could say that–Toluu Blog » Blog Archive » New feed page views: Popular and Subscribers—now not only does it run faster (I could tell the moment he turned it on, that’s how much it improved), but you can […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

May 27th, 2008

Community Managers the best part of Web 2.0: aideRSS welcomes Melanie Baker as Community Manager

One of the best results of Web 2.0, social media, and blogging isn’t the CBO (Chief Blogging Officer), but the Community Manager.  A person who’s job isn’t to mollycoddle or placate people, but to listen and help users.  Waterloo-based aideRSS, let us know that another community manager has joined the ranks:
My name is Melanie Baker, […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

May 18th, 2008

That tasty RSS snack you crave with Adobe AIR-based Snackr

As a professional-blogger, I need a steady stream of information to do my job.  Of course that stream comes in via RSS.  Day to day my RSS reader is FeedDemon, but I need a more constant flow of information.
Not long ago RWW had a post with some rockin’ Adobe AIR apps—FreshAIRApps: A Premier Adobe AIR […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

May 16th, 2008

It’s my attention and I’m tired of sharing it with everyone

Sarah Perez wrote a great, insightful post about the explosion of cool apps and how, really, we can’t do it all:
What Can We Do? It’s hard to say. Early adopters are not going to stop playing with every new service, but it’s clear that we’re getting to a point where tools that centralize, aggregate, but […]

By Tris Hussey -- 5 comments

May 11th, 2008

Canadian Startup and Tech News Speed Linking

Here are some news items that have caught my eye in the past bit, with a little commentary as well.
Most people will tell you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So if you’re in Montreal, and you’re interested in technology and entrepreneurship, you should think about joining us for breakfast on […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

April 18th, 2008

NewsGator Online adds aideRSS PostRank as fast sort option

Ilya emailed me this morning that NewsGator Online had added aideRSS PostRank to their sort options.  The cool thing about this is that you don’t need a plugin to use it.  So unlike the GoogleReader version, you don’t have to use Firefox to take advantage to PostRank within NGO.  Also, while this is limited to […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

April 17th, 2008

Are better applications the solution to the information firehose?

The information firehose is something that we all suffer from nowadays. I won’t even use the incremented number of Web x.0, that’s just foolish marketing, but we are beginning to try to tame the information beast by pulling more together. Is that the right course and will it save us?
If services won’t save us, will […]

By Tris Hussey -- 5 comments

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