Archive for December, 2006

Google YouTube Video in RSS Feeds

An RSS feed is a short information container that keeps track of updated web content. It stores update information as well as a link back to the actual content. Users visit a website and subscribe to the feed as well as configure their RSS reader (or aggregator) to check that feed in order to receive [...]

KickRSS, Thursday, December 21st, 2006, No Comments »

RSS Feed Aggregator Tools

The Basics
An RSS reader is also called a feed reader, rss feed aggregator or aggregator. Such software uses web feeds in order to access content from news sites and other sources like blogs, pods, vlogs, and other websites. RSS readers act like automated content fetchers. When a user subscribes to an RSS feed the reader [...]

RSS XML, Thursday, December 21st, 2006, No Comments »

XML Feeds and Internet Explorer Version 7.0

OK, so I was down on IE since I switched to firefox early in 2006. I hesitated upgrading to IE7 but I kept getting those update notices from MS and figured I’d go ahead and install IE7 on my Dell M1210 to see how it performs.
I’m not too familiar with all the new features but [...]

KickRSS, Sunday, December 17th, 2006, No Comments »

Clicking on XML files in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8

If you are using Firefox version 1.5, you may have found yourself on websites recently clicking on links that say “subscribe” or clicking on images like these only to get an odd looking page that does not appear to do anything. Welcome to the XML feed.
Clicking on a file that has an XML [...]

RSS XML, Tuesday, December 12th, 2006, No Comments »

RSS Feed Mixing - a how to story on creating a custom feed mix

You may be new to RSS and RSS feeds so I will try not to get too technical here. For you techno XML RSS and Atom nerd’s, this stuff will be overly basic and probably far too boring for you. My intent is to answer some of the questions I get from users that are [...]

KickRSS, Monday, December 11th, 2006, No Comments »

RSS Feeds more popular than Breast Feed

I was just checking some wordtracker reports today and it turns out that searches for “RSS feeds” are almost 3 times as popular as searches for “breast feed.”
According to the WordTracker report, which was just a simple search of the top 100 terms related to “feed”, RSS Feeds counts in at 945. It wasn’t until [...]

RSS News, Saturday, December 9th, 2006, No Comments »