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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

April 1st, 2008

aideRSS Google Reader extension brings help to RSS overload without changing your feeds

You all know that I’m a huge fan of aideRSS and have been using it religiously since I found it.  Today, no kidding, they’ve announced their Firefox extension for Google Reader that allows you to filter your posts with PostRank right there in GoogleReader!
Although you can consume any AideRSS PostRank enhanced feed in your RSS […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

March 4th, 2008

Matt Cutts would like a "best of" solution for RSS–aideRSS has that ready for you now

Matt  Cutts made his 2008 predictions and wants a “best of” RSS solution:
An RSS startup will add the ability to take a normal RSS blog feed and produce a “best of” feed that picks only the most popular/controversial/interesting items. You will be able to say (for example) “I want only about three Valleywag posts per […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

February 24th, 2008

The Best of Affiliate Summit West 2008

Like Marshall did with his coverage of DEMO recently, I’ve used aideRSS to make a “best of” feed for Affiliate Summit West 2008.  Right now it just has my feed, some general searches are coming soon (they are queued right now).  As I find bloggers who are covering ASW08 I’ll add them directly (yes Steph, […]

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February 15th, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick, Master of RSS, sharing his secrets next week

I think Marshall Kirkpatrick is one of the few people I can safely say consumes more RSS on a regular basis than I do.  My 775 feeds pales in comparison to his 1000+.
We both, however, are passionate, users and evangelists for RSS.  Services that provide information, but not in RSS…not even on my radar.  I […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

February 4th, 2008

FeedHub adds extension and features, but aideRSS is close behind

I got a ping from FeedHub last night that they are adding a Firefox extension and a raft of new features.  Frank Gruber got the post up today, which is good because I’m still trying to find all my brain cells from blowing my nose all the time from this cold:

The FeedHub update will tackle: […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment