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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 User ImageTris Hussey -- 5 comments

April 3rd, 2008

Toluu adds RSS for updates and easier syncing with feed readers

I think Toluu might be one of the best new finds this year.  Sure FriendFeed and SocialThing! are helping us aggregate our online lives, but Toluu is helping me find more and more interesting stuff online.  Getting a broad perspective through RSS is key, I’d say essential, to what I do and maybe for all […]

By User ImageTris Hussey -- 2 comments

March 4th, 2008

Get your FeedDemon tips straight from Nick Bradbury!

You know by now that I’m a huge fan of FeedDemon.  I slog through 1000s of posts a day using it and probably mark almost as many read with the panic button when I get behind.  Like any good piece of software FeedDemon has a ton of not-so-well-known tricks that power users can take advantage […]

By User ImageTris Hussey -- 1 comment

February 15th, 2008

Greg Reinacker tells us how often NewsGator updates feeds

Louis Gray commented a week ago on how poorly Google Reader updates feeds, in direct contrast is this post from Greg Reinacker on how NewsGator works:
Category A: these are feeds that are needed by certain commercial syndication services customers with extremely tight SLAs - some of these SLAs guarantee content available within 2 minutes of […]

By User ImageTris Hussey -- 0 comments

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