Library Stuff

I’ve been thrilled with Feed on Feeds (and will write up a lengthy review soon, I promise) mostly because I have almost total control over it. Most importantly, it’s on my server (well, Blake’s). Today (via Del.icio.us) I came across Fyuze:

“Fyuze is a “news aggregator,” a program that automatically collects information so that you don’t have to. Often times, news aggregator software runs on your desktop, meaning that you must first download and install software. However, fyuze runs over the web, meaning there is no software to download or install. It also means that you can access your information from wherever you are, no need to sync subscription lists or transfer software. Fyuze’s centralized aggregator also makes it possible for you to monitor thousands of sites for news on a particular topic, something you just can’t do with desktop aggregators.”

I played with it a little bit tonight and it looks impressive. You can put the feeds into groups, subscribe to Yahoo Groups directly from the software, and I’m sure many more resources. Bookmarked for later playing…

Andreas is doing some great work over at Blogsnow. You can now see the most popular stories from the New York Times. The database is updated daily. While there are other “what’s popular in the blogosphere” resources, I don’t believe that they have the ability to limit by resource and list them in such a clear way (most popular on top, etc). Look for more stuff from Andreas in the future. We’ve been IMing each other all week…

Talking about permission marketing in the Industry Standard as a guest blogger, Seth Godin writes:

“The ironic thing is that Permission (the real thing) is working better than ever, but only when it has stuff like RSS to get through the filters that are springing up all over the place. The selfish spammers have peed in the water supply, ruining it for everyone else.”

“I think email is on its last legs as a useful tool, soon to be replaced by IM, RSS and other more reliable and steady filtering devices. That’s too bad, but totally predictable.”

As Jenny says, the emphasis above is mine.

RSS-Job-Feeds.org – There is no search mehcanism here (unlike RSS Jobs) but you can break down the lengthly list by location or job type. Semi-impressive. There is no “about” page, so I don’t know where the job ads come from, but I clicked on three random ones, which led me to Career Builder. (link via Syndic8.)

According to dot.journalism, the Guardian is planning on releasing more RSS Feeds soon:

“The Guardian is planning to launch more XML-based services in the next few months, adding to the news feed services the site already provides to both commercial clients and individual readers.”

“At the moment we do not have XML feeds for anything other than the general feed on the front page,” said a Guardian spokesperson.”

“We do plan to have XML feeds for specialised sections in the future, and are developing a platform to allow this to happen.”