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There’s no doubt that some aspects of social media are moving very fast. New and updated tools, products and services are coming at us on a daily basis. So I should not have been surprised when I opened up Google Reader yesterday to find a completely new interface and a host of new features.
Google’s upgrade [...]

If you get a few moments head over to the Learning Center to have a look at a tutorial on managing RSS feeds with Google Reader.
The Google Reader tool was barely acceptable as an RSS reader when it was first launched but the folks at Google have continued to upgrade the service, making Google Reader [...]

I’ve got a new lesson posted over in the Learning Center. This time around I’m showing folks how to create an RSS feed with the free and very easy IceRocket RSS Builder.
This is a web based tool that allows you to manage multiple RSS feeds under one account. I think the IceRocket tool is a [...]

Grazr is a very neat tool that allows you to place a navigable widget on a web page for RSS or OPML feeds of your choice.
They’ve updated the look and feel of the Grazr widget to make it a little less obtrusive when you see the widget on your website. Grazr also has a couple of neat features built [...]

Microsoft has recently added some RSS news reader features to their new product that currently has a code name of Max.
According to the official website, “Microsoft® Codename Max is your opportunity to try a new, exciting experience from Microsoft. Today Max lets you make beautiful photo slideshows to share with your family and [...]

I’ve come to think of RSS as the grease for the social web. If that’s true then I think it’s fair to say that a tool called Feed2JS is the grease gun, easily allowing users to insert the grease where it needs to go.
Feed2JS is short for “Feed To Javascript”. The tool allows you to convert [...]

I’m happy to announce an exciting new service from Awakened Voice that’s designed to help everyone get smarter on social media.
I’m calling this service the Social Media Learning Center. The center includes a collection of tours and tutorials (which I’m collectively dubbing ‘lessons’) designed to help you get smarter on social media.
Each lesson is encoded [...]

I’ve been doing some research on the best way to consume RSS feeds on a mobile device. Dave Winer’s New York Times River is great but you only get summaries of the stories and when you click through it takes you to the NY Times regular website.
Dave has also taken a few select blogs and [...]

I found something very interesting while tooling around the latest release of Firefox. When you right click on a page that contains an RSS feed you’re presented with a “Feed or Podcast” menu choice. Clicking the choice then presents a list of items in the feed which you can go to by clicking on the [...]

As I see it now there are three major threats to the growth and success of podcasting as a medium in the coming years.

Centralized RSS Feeds - A recent scare involving the country of China blocking RSS feeds from the Feedburner domain underscores the dangers of having too many feeds hosted at one source. If [...]