Awakened Voice

In the past month I’ve had three shopping experiences with Amazon.com. One was related to purchasing a book. Another related to researching a new mobile phone purchase. And the third was in connection with last minute Christmas shopping.
In the process I spent quite a bit more time on the e-retailers site than I had in [...]

The world of social media changes pretty quickly. Shortly after I posted a lesson over in the Awakened Voice Learning Center on Google Reader, the team released some major updates to the interface. The result was a new and improved RSS reader.
So I finally got around to taking another spin through the updated interface, which [...]

I recently upgraded my Firefox browser to version 2.0. One thing to consider before you upgrade is how the upgrade will affect your add ons.
Most will probably be supported, but I ran into a potentially sticky situation with my desktop RSS feed reader of choice, Onfolio. Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year and [...]

There’s a new tutorial playing over in the Learning Center. Learn how to use the Feed2JS tool to place RSS feed items on just about any web page.
[Tags]Social Media, RSS, Tutorial, Video, Tools, Open Source[/tags]
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Feed2JS Tutorial”, url: “http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2006/11/25/feed2js-tutorial/” });

Now that YouTube has been fully acquired by Google I think they should aspire to a high level of service. After all they’re no longer a cash strapped startup anymore. Heck, in terms of internet startups they are now filthy rich. So they should have the money to make their feature set a bit more [...]

Intel is offering a suite of social media apps they are calling Suite Two. They are bundling a number of tools together including Movable Type, NewsGator and Socialtext.
According to the official website, “SuiteTwo is a rich set of interconnected services that combine to improve productivity and enable high-engagement marketing. SuiteTwo includes the most trusted platforms [...]

Internet Explorer 7 is out and it includes some nifty features that allow people to discover and subscribe to RSS feeds in the browser. I’ve been testing the beta for months and recognized that the RSS functionality is a very important new feature.
Apparently Walt Mossberg from The Wall Street Journal doesn’t think so. I read [...]

Neville Hobson just pointed me to an excellent WordPress plugin called Sig2Feed.
The plugin will add a customizable signature to each of the posts in your RSS feed. The main purpose of this feature is to direct people back to your site if they happen to stumble upon your content through another site that is aggregating [...]

If you’re curious about how the latest version of Internet Explorer handles RSS feeds then head over to the Learning Center to catch a video tutorial on managing RSS feeds with IE7.
I’ve been trying out the IE7 Beta for a few months now and am impressed with the support Microsoft has added for managing RSS [...]

I recently made the decision to unsubscribe from a number of RSS feeds that only included summaries of the content contained in the blog posts that were being distributed via the feeds.
The act of unsubscribing from these feeds was based on two factors. First, it is highly frustrating to browse my RSS reader of choice [...]