FEEDoTopia

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Feed ADs in your RSS FEED stream

MyADLETS tells about Pheedo' s Feedpowered advertising. Hmm.. there must be something in it! for all these feeders, Bottom, Middle and Top!
MyADLETS informtion trickle!

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Feedburner is in Google oven now.

This Techcrunch article explains, what was a rumor for sometime now as to be a fact. Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner

from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi

, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal. Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, according to our source, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years.

The information we have is that the deal is now under a binding term sheet and will close in 2-3 weeks, and there is nothing that can really derail it at this point.

Update;

Google official blog explains the deal and a audio file, the discussion with feedburner CEO.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

RailsConf more stuff.... Opening Keynote and ....

I am not going to write about the opening keynote because someone else have done a really good job of it. Actually a whole bunch of it. Since my writing (I write?) is really bad and information is all I am trying to provide, I will have to direct you to Nick Sieger. (If you have touched, ActiveRecord-JDBC connector, or seen inner working of JRuby + NanoContainer, you have been touched by Nick.)

Once I found that Nick was blogging, and found that I can catch up with presentations, that I have missed!, I gave up even thinking about writing. He did write a lot of very good material, I spent a lot of time reading his blog already!

Once you read his articles, you will feel that you have actually been in the presentation.

Here are the article;

RailsConf 2007 Opening Keynote: David Heinemeier Hansson

RailsConf 2007: Evan Weaver: Going Off Grid

RailsConf 2007: Saturday Morning Keynotes

RailsConf 2007: Bradley Taylor: Virtual Clusters

RailsConf 2007: Chris Wanstrath: Kickin' Ass with Cache-fu

Friday, May 18, 2007

Railsconf, Ruby on Rails and Portland

I was hooked on Ruby on Rails from the day I discovered it almost a year ago. Railsconf now in session in Portland is a sold out event!
Just to keep railsconf news tidbits afloat, My favorite tool, Komodo,

Active State has a IDE for Ruby On Rails;
ActiveState, the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages, released the latest version of Komodo IDE today at RailsConf 2007, introducing unparalleled Ruby and Ruby on Rails support to the award-winning development environment. Komodo IDE 4.1 is a multi-platform, multi-language IDE for dynamic languages and Ajax technologies, now featuring the most advanced Ruby and Rails editing and debugging available in any development tool.

But I liked the Fiveruns studio better
FiveRuns, a pioneer of enterprise-class management for Rails
and other popular open source and commercial systems, today announced the general
availability of RM-Manage, the first product offering within the FiveRuns Enterprise Management Suite for Rails. Built to integrate with the FiveRuns Enterprise Management Platform, the Enterprise Management Suite for Rails will ensure Rails applications are enterprise-ready, performing and available.
More feeds on railsconf here on FEEDoTopia soon.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Sendouts Pro’s RSS Feed Technology Integrates with Indeed.com to ease job and candidate hunting

eMediawire News release.
May 17, 2007 -- Sendouts LLC, provider of Sendouts Pro, the #1 on-demand recruiting software for recruiting and staffing agencies, has completed a seamless XML feed integration with Indeed (www.indeed.com) and Simply Hired (www.simplyhired.com) enabling clients to fill more job orders and find more qualified candidates.

Sendouts provides its clients with Webconnect, a product that enables recruiters to automatically post job openings to their websites from within their Sendouts Pro recruiting software. Recognizing a need for more qualified candidates and further exposure for clients’ job postings, Sendouts Pro has implemented RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication) technology. An XML format, RSS feeds are creating a standard way to automatically deliver fresh content to websites and blogs.

Rest of The News release.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

BlogTopsites and Blogflux services are under one roof now!

The services provided by Blogflux is very familiar to blog authos and publishers. I use Blogflus services in many a weblogs and direct others to do the same.
Blogtopsites ranks weblogs based on number of visitors to weblogs or blogs. Although they are both owned by the same company, Bloggy Network (Thanks goes to Vincent McBurney for clearing it up. Like him I thought the same when I got the Blogtopsites email). Good news is that you can use both the services with a single sign on at Blogflux.

I did not have any problems with this merger

, but there seems to be some problems with some sites. (I just noticed that I lost one of my site registration, although everything works fine.

)
May be I should send an email and get it corrected.

Vincent has written a better article and instead of rewriting I will direct you to his article!

Links;
Fix duplicate accounts here
Bloggy Network
If you have trouble email merger@blogtopsites.com for support
Vincent McBurney

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Google Analytics gets a new face

If you are like me, using the free Google Analytics service for monitoring, optimizing your websites, I have good news for you. I was at the Emetrics Summit and witnessed Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen unveiled the new version of Google Analytics.
I took a break from a few hectic days and now I am seeing the new interface at GA (Google Analytics).

I tried to capture my screens but seems to be having a bad luck with it. So I just got the image from Google Analytics blog.
Visit or Join Google analytics if you are not a member and enjoy all those insider views into your site/s.
But visiting this link;
Google Analytics Blog: New Version of Google Analytics!
might help you to get your bearings!

Monday, May 07, 2007

ADLETS are born it seems

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Did you feed unwanted stuff in to a search engine?

If you did and if the search engine is Google, you will have a chance at removing those indexed feeds or content.
I never thought of this procedure until I read the following post on Google's Google webmaster central blog.
Earlier I thought that if my robots.txt or robots meta tag would take care of all that But now I have access to a new tool. A tool that let me withdraw pages slipped through those barriers.
But the following article takes you through every step of removing a web page that got indexed by mistake. I hope other search engines will pick a clue and provide the same to webmasters.
Now where did that feed go!

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Requesting removal of content from our index

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Teqlo, The Next great Mashup

If your idea of feeds and other web services comes via pipes, like yahoo pipes beta, then you are in for another surprise.
Teqlo which is also in beta at he moment offers something everyone could be happy about. If you ever have tried to build a pipe on yahoo pipes, you know the drill. The difference at Teqlo is that it is focused on getting your work done without having to worry or think about about APIs, coding, or scripting. For Technical and non-technical people alike.
You can even plug in Yahoo pies as well, are we talking mash ups or what? Instead of reading my rumblings here I think it is better to head over to Teqlo and try out.
Word of warning though, about registration/ sign up page! If you are the type who wants to know terms of service or terms of use, please do that before filling up your information. It is at almost bottom of the sign up page. Why? 'cos you have to type up your information again, if you click on the terms of use link!
But the rest of the Teqlo is super for me, so far.
This is what their Executive summery has to say what Teqlo is all about;
"Web application developers have been building sophisticated services interfaces and protocols into their applications for years as a means of stimulating third party developer activity, we are taking that one step further by enabling non technical users with the capability to drag-and-drop components to a web page and enable reliable communication between services. Through enabling co-creation of process and task automation applications we unleash a wave of new applications that really do represent the way people work, because they are built by the people who use them!

Imagine you want to drop sales leads onto a map and then select contacts for daily calls, such as a sales person would do. Maybe you want to automatically notify your preferred customers when you are having a promotion event, or plan an event, or manage employee expenses. Teqlo's breakthrough sequencing methodology and data routing technology enables these and many more user generated applications without the steep learning curve imposed by competing technologies."

Links;
Teqlo the next great mashup

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Mix, Burn and Subscribe to your own feed mix

James E. Lee carries you through a feedmix elevator ride to give a pitch to feed technology!. I really enjoyed reading and trying out his article on "how and why to mix feeds"
Head over to his blog to get a bellyful.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

WeSeePeople: un-Boring Technorati... if it was boring to you!

If you are checking in your feeds at Technorati, find out how to be in the top 100.
WeSeePeople: un-Boring Technorati... if it was boring to you!

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Red Sweater gets Marsedit from Newsgator

Red Sweater Software announced today that it has acquired MarsEdit, the popular weblog publishing software, from NewsGator Technologies, Inc. The acquisition promises an exciting future for the application, which provides an intuitive, email-like interface to the web's most popular publishing systems.

MarsEdit's simplicity and power make it the tool of choice for many of the platform's leading writers.

"Nearly every word I write for Daring Fireball is published through MarsEdit," said John Gruber, author of the popular Daring Fireball weblog. "It's a terrific tool, and I'm glad to see it in good hands. I can't wait to start pummeling Daniel with feature requests."

Daniel Jalkut, the founder of Red Sweater Software, is himself an avid blogger. "MarsEdit has long been one of my favorite applications, so it's a thrill to welcome it into the Red Sweater family of products," he said. "I am both passionate and confident about steering MarsEdit into the future."

"I've already sent a bunch of feature requests to Daniel," said Brent Simmons, MarsEdit's original developer. "I use the app every day, and love it, and I'm so glad that it has a bright future. I look forward to being a MarsEdit user, to seeing what cool stuff Daniel does."
Links;
Press release at Red Sweater
Marsedit

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Geemodo: Now there is a Badger in my Yahoo Pipes

Very nice use of Yahoo pipes to add RSS feed badges to a site or weblog.

Geemodo: Now there is a Badger in my Yahoo Pipes

Friday, February 09, 2007

Yahoo pipes pipes feeds and more

Although it is some time since Yahoo let the pipes beta out, I did not have enough time to test it out. I did get a chance today and well, very clever piece of work. If worked hard enough, one would be able to pipe all his internet information through Yahoo Pipes. If you trust the Internet enough, then you will be able to create pipe that transfers data from one place to other. Like a VPN that we use to connect network to network.
I created a my own pipe, (Basically saved a copy of another pipe that a rather creative person has created and modified for my uses) and I am rather amazed and disappointed with the results. The disappointment is not due to Yahoo pipes but for what Yahoo pipes showed me. SPLOGS stealing blog data. I was searching for exact line by line copying of blog information. I found many, my own blogs, (yes I do have a few blogs! why? same reason you have your bookmarks categorized. you have? don't you.)
I invite you to visit Yahoo pipes and let some ideas flow.

Links;
Yahoo pipes Beta

Friday, January 12, 2007

Write comments and win big, no Spam!!

Did you ever thought that a comment that you leave on a weblog could earn you some money? Now you can.451 Press is hosting a comments contest. Just by commenting on the some of the blogs that this network is publishing, you can win up to $500. Requirements are that those comments have to be “quality comments,” not spam. The closing date for the comment contest is January 31, 2007. So get your comments brain up and head over to the link provided below.

LINKS;
Comment Contest

Sunday, December 24, 2006

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!

Monday, November 20, 2006

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!

Sunday, November 19, 2006

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

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

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