2007 Year of RSS
ReadWriteWeb posted 2007: The Year in RSS an interesting overview of RSS events over the past year.
WordPress Problems
Successful software wrote about their problems with WordPress and why they hesitate to rely on a third party for their blog. I was generally very happy with the service, which has been free so far apart from paying a few dollars for the redirect. But when I tried to log into this blog on Wednesday, all I saw were the chilling words account suspended. The blog itself was still up, but I couldn t log in to change anything or export it. I emailed wordpress technical support and started backing up the text of all the articles I had not backed up already. Then the images started disappearing from the blog. Then the blog disappeared altogether, replaced by a message saying that it had been suspended for violations of terms of service. Apparently wordpress can shutdown your blog at any time without warning, without right of appeal and without giving a reason.
ASP Script for RSS2HTML Updated
ByteScout has updated their ASP script that converts RSS feeds to HTML web pages, it now includes support for blogger. (Here is a similar script in PHP)
Realtors and RSS Feeds
RSS feeds are becoming an essential tool for Realtors, who are struggling in a declining market. Real estate offices that adopt technology as a marketing tool will remain one step ahead of their competition. Realty and RSS Feeds
Syndicate IQ Shuts Down
Syndicate IQ has ceased operations according to a notice on its homepage.Syndicate IQ was a company that provided feed management, statistics and advertisements. Syndicate IQ competed with Pheedo and to some extent FeedBurner.
TalkDigger Ego Search Tool
TalkDigger is another Ego Search tool, enter a search word or phrase and subscribe to the feed generated. The feed ill update each time TalkDigger locates the defined keyword online.
Google Gets Political
Google will be pampering bloggers and tutoring US policy makers at Democratic and Republican national conventions as Internet culture flexes growing political muscle. The Internet giant is joining news-ranking website Digg and blogger groups to set up a Big Tent for media and delegates at the Democratic convention next week in the US state of Colorado. The 8,000-square-foot center will feature a public area with kiosks for uploading videos to Google-owned YouTube and demonstrations of services offered by Google.
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