Ugh, comment spam. I am considering moving beyond the native Word Press scheme for it and looking into Askimet. I probably ought to just for review’s sake. It was started by one of the creators of Word Press and just got some VC funding.
I wrote a post at Social Software yesterday about a very interesting new Newsweek partnership with RSS aggregator service Newsgator that I think illustrates some very exciting possibilities. Steve Rubel linked to the post and agrees. (!) Conversation ensues. I hope readers here will check it out.
FeedDigest.com is my favorite way to turn RSS feeds into HTML for display on your site. I think it’s the most well supported, most sophisticated and best funded of all the tools for this purpose that I’ve seen. Many other services are just not something you’d want to use in a quality- demanding context. FeedDigest is fantastic. This week Peter Cooper, the man behind the awesome service, announced some new features worth noting.
Improved search/filtering. If you want to syndicate the feeds for say the nptech attention stream, the Net Squared blogs and items tagged “podcast” in del.icio.us all mashed into one newswire and displayed on your blog or website – that’s something you’ve always been able to do with FeedDigest. But if you want only display items that include the phrase “environmental justice” – well now you can do that. Cool.
Export by OPML (feeds bundled in outline form) and clean URLs. These features are just going to make the Feed Digest environment easier to work in.
I love this tool and can’t recommend it highly enough.
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Probably won’t have time to make any original posts here today, but should point readers two items I wrote today at Social Software.
Gizmo goes local in Europe
Cooliris delivers clickless preview of Google search results
Thought those in particular would be of interest to readers here.
I posted an interview with the community manager of OpenOffice.org, Louis Suarez-Potts, last night at Net Squared. OpenOffice is an interesting project that provides office suite (word processor, spread sheet, etc.) programs to the word in open source and an open format in 60+ languages around the world. Louis writes an epic poem in response to each of my email interview questions – it’s really informative and inspiring.
It’s been busy times over at Social Software, too – so don’t hesitate to check it out over there.
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I just made a long guest post over at a neat company blog called The Big Act, by a web-app company called SproutIt. Their favorite topic is Management by Feed. You know how much I love RSS, so I was more than happy to make a guest post on the topic. I focused on two obstacles I see: management of feeds themselves and diverse skill sets on the part of end users. Check it out if you’d like: Two Obstacles to Management by Feeds
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It’s true, Scuttle.org is an open source social bookmarking platform. A variety of different social bookmarking services seem to use it, but none I had ever heard of before looking. http://sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle/ is where you can download the code. Is there an implementation out there where you could, say, both search in and by found in both Scuttle and Del.icio.us at the same time? Wouldn’t that be nice.