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FeedBurner Quits Blogging, Gets Eaten by AdSense
RSS and podcast publishing service FeedBurner has been a great friend to bloggers over the years but this morning announced that it will shut down its own blog Burning Questions. Readers will now be referred to a new blog, AdSense for Feeds. FeedBurner is so useful for so many things beyond serving up ads in feeds that there's something sad about the symbolism here.
As a part of the announcement FeedBurner offers information for publishers about how to migrate from FeedBurner to a new Google account, as in the future all feed related services will require a Google account. It's the end of an era, really.
PostRank Releases Awesome New Top Posts Widget
We love Canadian startup PostRank here at ReadWriteWeb, but today the company has really outdone itself with the release of a powerful and eye catching new widget to display your blog's hottest posts.
PostRank scores every item in your (or any) RSS feed, by number of comments, inbound links, saves in Delicious, mentions on Twitter, votes on Digg, etc. It then offers a filtered view or feed of the most relatively popular posts in that feed. The new top posts widget offers powerful new functionality, can be customized and installed in less than a few minutes and looks really hot.
BlogRize Relaunches: Google Reader Meets Digg for Blog Communities
When BlogRize, a blog community and aggregator, first launched earlier this year, we gave it a very positive review. BlogRize is an interesting mix between Digg, Techmeme, and ReadBurner, though with a stronger emphasis on individual communities around blogs (like the RWW community here) and recommendations.
During the last few months, BlogRize's founder Jesse Spaulding has been working on a major redesign of the site, which he is rolling out today. The new design features an enhanced voting system, updated ranking algorithms, and a lot of updates to the user interface that make using the site a lot easier and more fun.
My6Sense: Personalized Reading Recommendations That Actually Work (500 Invites)
Personalized recommendations have always been one of those technologies that look great on paper, but hardly ever work quite as well as advertised. This week, we got a chance to test my6sense, which takes your feed subscriptions and then recommends interesting posts based on your own reading habits. My6sense's current focus is on providing a good mobile experience, though the company will soon also launch its service on the web as well.
While it did take a bit of training before the application fully recognized our preferences and before it returned really good results, the overall results were very impressive.
Say What? Google Reader Translates Any Feed into Your Native Tongue
If you're like most folks interested in technology, you likely have a feed reader full of hundreds of RSS feeds on your favorite topics. No doubt, they all have one thing in common: they're in a language that you're capable of reading.
But what about all of that interesting news and information that's written in languages you don't speak? Get ready to have access to even more information about your favorite topics, because now Google Reader leverages Google Translate technology to convert any feed to your preferred language.
Dapper MashupAds: A New Lease on Life for One of the Coolest Tools on the Web
When I first discovered RSS creation tool Dapper.net two years ago I knew it was exciting, but I couldn't figure out how to use it. I was surprised to find people talking about it at tech events who felt the same way. This was a tool that had huge potential but also stood on shaky ground in terms of usability, legal impact and thus long term viability as a business.
Two years later Dapper has become a service I depend on, it's enabled me to do a significant portion of my work as a blogger and a consultant in ways that nothing else can. Today the company rolled out a new service that will help its own bottom line. Web 2.0 is fast becoming a story of awesome tools that didn't find a large number of users and had to slink off into the shadows of advertising sales - reduced to polluting social networks and young minds with insipid pop-culture content that really ought not even exist. Thankfully, that's not the case with the newly launched Dapper MashupAds.
Social Media's Greatest Hits as an OPML File
Turns out Chris Miller over at The Social Networker noticed a list of top 150 social media blogs on eCairn's blog last week, but was disappointed to see that it was not available as an OPML file. So, he created one.
Today, we realized that the most popular posts from those blogs may be useful resources for many folk, so we created our own OPML file. Ah, the beauty of the Web.
Cartoon: Partial Text RSS Feeds
Some of my favorite blogs and news sites have one huge, grating shortcoming that keeps me from becoming an all-out fanboy: partial feeds. There's a title, a supposedly tantalizing teaser, and a link to read the whole thing. The sites' creators probably hope that will mean readers visit the site, click on ads and generate revenue.
But I've been burned too often by mystery-meat teasers that fall far short of their promise, or that are ambiguously worded and turn out to be about something completely different. So nowadays those sites only get my attention when the teaser looks absolutely irresistible -- and that's a bar that's high and rising.
How to Use the New Google Web Search RSS Feeds
Google's been the lone hold out among major search engines on RSS but the company quietly enabled feeds for web search results this week. The offering is pretty limited and frustrating, you have to go through Google Alerts to get an obscure RSS URL, but we offer a tutorial and some strategic advice in this post.
Web search RSS is useful for being alerted whenever search results for your keywords or link have changed; subscribing to at least a few searches will let you know when Google users are seeing something new in the first few pages of search results for your company name, for example.
Read It Later Comes To Google Reader
Popular Firefox addon Read It Later has just introduced an updated version of their plugin which adds new functionality to Google Reader. With the new extension, which now works in both Firefox and IE, you can now get through your RSS feeds faster by checking off the items you want to read later in more detail. You can then access those saved items from any web browser, whether it's Firefox at home, IE at work, or even your iPhone.
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