Happy Feed holiday!

I hope Santa will come your way and Your holiday will be filled with laughter and Joy. If you pass by an unfortunate person, please try to make him/her smile. Don't forget that all the Kids are the same!

Best Regards!

Tags: santa, holiday, joy

Leave a Fleck on any website

Geemodo carries a post about new bookmarking sensation, Fleck. Fleck is a way to annotate a website, any website, so you can later visit the website. You don't have to remember why you bookmarked the site, because all your notes, called flecks, are on the site. Go check out the article and leave some flecks behind!
Geemodo: Is Fleck flaking? No Dashnote needs tweaking!

Tags: Fleck, web annotate, dashnote

Ping survey results from October

Mark Sweeting of Britblog, Technoranki fame has done a survey ping services. Not all the ping services out there but three of them. So what is the interest of those to me? First let me tell you what those ping Services are and then I will tell you why.
Mark is currently monitoring the following three ping services: Autopinger, Blogflux, and Ping-o-matic.
Why am I looking at these? because I use two of those services, Autopinger (I like the best) and BlogFlux (thought it was good!).
Anyway I think feeds and pings go together. And when (WHEN?) feedotopia is up, I will try t work with Autopinger to provide some services to Fedotopia.
Another reason is I like what Mark is doing. Just browse his projects and see if you like them too.

Links;
Mark Sweeting
Autopinger
Blogflux
Autopinger Blog

Tags: britblog, technoranki, autopinger, blogflux, ping-o-matic, feedotopia

State of the BlogSphere as of October 2006

I was at Joi Ito's blog and he directed me to this site with a one line post. I like Jo Ito's style and the progress in Web 2.0. Too bad I could not make it to the conference in San Francisco.
Anyway The article is about a report by CEO of Technorati!, I always refer to him as Sir-fry but his real name is David Sifry. He has plotted the state of blogsphere into some good graphs (some may not agree) that reveals that state blogs and the mainstream media.
It is hard to explain the report without one actually seeing the article so I think it is best to redirect you to Sifry's article.
I am really fired up though, about ideas I carry in my head about Feedotopia.

Links;
Joi Ito's site
Sifry's report

Tags: technorati, Sifry, Blogsphere, feedotopia

Widgets "glorified RSS feeds."

Pheedo blog reports that Steve Rubel talks about his love for widgets, Web 3.0 and the Widgetized Web. He calls widgets "glorified RSS feeds."
They also conversed with Scott Rafer, former CEO of Feedster, he said RSS is a "developer's tool." Widgets are perfect example of developers using RSS feeds to solve a problem, entertain, waste time etc. In this case, Scott is spot on.
All the links to articles and conversations are on the Pheedo blog.
Pheedo is according to about us on site;
"A lot has happened since Pheedo pioneered the feed advertising industry in 2003. It’s been amazing to watch our original idea, good as it may have been, grow into an industry-wide necessity. The speed of this evolution has taught us the importance of remaining focused on our customers, providing the thousands of bloggers, micro-publishers, large media outlets, and online advertisers innovative and flexible tools to capture and measure revenues through the sale of advertising."

Links;
Pheedo
Pheedo Blog article

Tags: web 30, Widgetized Web, RSS, FEED Advertising, pheedo

Digg Algorithm get dugg deeper

Since Solarion wrote about the Digg Algorithm, I have been looking around for more info on the algorithm that Digg uses. I came across this well dugged story about the same discussion.
According to th story, these are the numbers you need to get on Digg front page;
Now about the aprox. number of diggs you need to get on the front page, for each category:

Now about the approx. number of diggs you need to get on the front page, for each category:

1. Technology (and the sub-categories) - about 50 diggs required, but it may go up to 90.
2. Science (and the sub-categories) - about 65-70 diggs required, but it may go up to 85.
3. World & Business (and the sub-categories) - about 80-90 diggs required, but it may go up to 100.
4. Sports (and the sub-categories) - about 30-40 diggs required, but it may go up to 50.
5. Videos (and the sub-categories) - about 55-60 diggs required, but it may go up to 80.
6. Entertainment (and the sub-categories) - about 50-55 diggs required, but it may go up to 70.
7. Gaming (and the sub-categories) - about 35-50 diggs required, but it may go up to 60.

After all, digg get dugged and you need to read the complete article at Seopedia together with all the comments.

Tags: digg algorithm, digg, dugg, ranking

Digg uses new tools and make it harder to be dugg!

The few stories I submitted to Digg.com, never reached the quota for front page display. But then I thought it is the game. But it seems there is more to the game.
Neil Patel at PronetAdvertising has a story about the new algorithm used by DIGG and how it will affect the pages reaching the front page of Digg. Just because you have a bunch of friends that digg for you might not bring the story to the front page. Looks like it needs more.
Niel goes on to describe the story more and tells you how a story without being dugged 60 times might make it to the front page.
Here an excerpt;
Complexity of the algorithm
The good news is not all categories require 60 diggs before the story hits the homepage. It seems that Digg has taken multiple factors into account such as number of submissions in a category, diggs, and time because certain categories do not need as many diggs before the stories hit the front page. The sports and entertainment categories are two of the categories that do not require too many diggs because not too many people digg these types of stories and these categories are also low on submissions.
I could not find any official info about the new algorithm. May be I need to learn to search better.
As we all want to know, hope better stories reach the front page, specially my stories! ;)
Links;
Neil Patel
Digg post on the story go digg it and make it 1000 diggs!
Digg Blog
Digg the blog

Tags: digg, digg algorithm

Feedzeo v1.0.1 beta released

Feedzeo is an outcome of an effort to create a unique RSS/RDF/Atom feed aggregator cum reader. Feedzeo v 1.0.1 beta has been released on sourceforge.net under LGPL license.
Feedzeo is a RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator cum reader written in Java. It is an open source and free software licensed under GNU LGPL. There are two parts to Feedzeo: a Server and a Client. The Server is the application you run on your desktop or any remote machine which has network connectivity. It runs in the background downloading the RSS/RDF/ATOM files and publishing it as html/data files. This release supports both windows and Linux. The earlier releases were only for windows.
To checkout or download you will have to visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/feedzeo.

Tags: feedzeo, feed aggregator, feed reader

Safety First for San Francisco Children

From USENEWSWIRE
WHAT: American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) President Bruce Cunningham, MD, will present 2,000 safety sports helmets to students at Francisco Middle School prior to Plastic Surgery 2006, the ASPS annual meeting. The Mayor's Education Advisor, Hydra Mendoza, and San Francisco Unified School District Interim Superintendent, Gwen Chan, will accept the helmets on behalf of the city and San Francisco public schools.

WHY: Bike riding is one of the most popular recreational sports among children in the United States -- and the leading cause of recreational sports injuries. Children accounted for an estimated 315,700 bicycle-related injuries; 72,500 skateboard- related injuries; and 44,500 non-powered scooter-related injuries in 2004.

Studies show helmets can prevent 85 percent of serious head injuries and 65 percent of injuries to the mid- and upper face. Recreational sports injuries account for a significant part of reconstructive plastic surgery performed on children. Through its donation, ASPS hopes to prevent injuries and encourage more children to wear helmets.

WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: Francisco Middle School, 2190 Powell St. (Between Francisco and Chestnut Street), San Francisco, CA 94133

Please call ASPS Public Relations at 847-228-9900 or San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) at 415-241-6565 for additional information.

Tags: helmets 4 safty, safety for children, san francisco, bike riders

Feed for your thoughts, Fonality aquires Trixbox

Voip IP Telephony reports that Fonality is the owner of Trixbox.
VOIP IP Telephony: Fonality acquires TrixBox (fomerly Asterisk@home)

Tags: snapvoip, feed, voip ip telephony

Ideas for feedotopia, 300+ digg alike and 200+ bookmarking sites!

I was hunting for ideas for feedotopia, (in addition to what I have), I landed on this post on 3spots.
I had to say WOW! But sometimes I wonder why that nothing is better than digg to some, no most of the users. Digg is a good idea but it was not the first of it's kind. Only the part I agree is that it was done better than all other previous and current sites.
To all who thinks that digg is THE site, think about all the search engines before Google! I think I will work on 3spots work to gain some knowledge.

Tags: feedotopia, digg, bookmarking

Another Video feed, video gadget for your Google home Page.

Weseepeople reports about a new "Official Video Gadget" aptly named vidget by ravenii. It has been reported to be seen on DIGG as well. Go dig it!

Tags: weseepeople, vidget, ravenii, official google video gadget

So what are the most important feeds to me? Mine and my best friends of course!

From the oldest blog site to the latest, under the headings condition!
Feed One (VOIP IP Telephony) The feed...........................

Feed Two (Gridtech) The Feed.............................................

Feed Three (Geemodo) The Feed........................................

Feed Four (MChelmets) The Feed.......................................

Feed Five (MedDesktop) The Feed......................................

Feed Six (EmpoweringSolar) The Feed................................

Feed Seven (WeSeePeople) The Feed..................................

Feed Eight (FEEDoTopia) The Feed.....................................

Tags: voip ip telephony, gridtech, mchelmets, meddesktop, empoweringsolar, weseepeople, feedotopia

So what are the most important feeds to me? Mine and my best friends of course!

From the oldest blog site to the latest, under the headings condition!
Feed One (VOIP IP Telephony) The feed..............................................

Feed Two (Gridtech) The Feed.............................................

Feed Three (Geemodo) The Feed.............................................

Feed Four (MChelmets) The Feed.............................................

Feed Five (MedDesktop) The Feed............................................

Feed Six (EmpoweringSolar) The Feed............................................

Feed Seven (WeSeePeople) The Feed...........................................

Feed Eight (FEEDoTopia) The Feed...........................................

Tags: voip ip telephony, gridtech, mchelmets, meddesktop, empoweringsolar, weseepeople, feedotopia

Welcome to Feedotopia

Feedotopia is the blog about all type of web feeds.
From the above link on wikipedia;

"A web feed is a data format used for serving users' frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collecting of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation.

In the typical scenario of using web feeds, a content provider publishes a feed link on their site which end users can register with an aggregator program (also called a feed reader or a news reader) running on their own machines; doing this is usually as simple as dragging the link from the web browser to the aggregator. When instructed, the aggregator asks all the servers in its feed list if they have new content; if so, the aggregator either makes a note of the new content or downloads it. Aggregators can be scheduled to check for new content periodically.

The kinds of content delivered by a web feed are typically HTML (webpage content) or links to webpages and other kinds of digital media. Often when websites provide web feeds to notify users of content updates, they only include summaries in the web feed rather than the full content itself."

I have gone through all of the following links and once you are through them, you will know what this blog is about.

• yongology. The web's quickest definition of a feed.
• Mark Pilgrim (18 December 2002). What is RSS?.
• Dave Shea (19 May 2004). What is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication?.
• Amy Gahran (30 March 2004). Webfeed as a nickname for RSS.
• Frank Bajak (27 February 2004). Enthusiasts call Web feed next big thing. Boston Globe.
• Meryl K. Evans (28 March 2004). What is This RSS, XML, RDF and Atom Business?.
• Kathleen Bright (29 August 2006). What is RSS?.
• Jemima Kiss (5 July 2005). How to: Get to grips with RSS in three minutes.
• Seth Godin (2006). Understanding RSS.
• Colin D. Devroe (30 December 2005). The unified feed theory.
• Hans (1 January 2006). Comment on The unified feed theory.
• Six Apart. About Feeds.
• BBC. News feeds from the BBC.
• Saku Peen. Add RSS to Your Web Site using Javascript.
• Brian Clark. What the Heck is RSS?.

Tags: web feed, feedotopia, RSS, RDF, syndication