Category: 'Webfeeds'
The Orange Icon, part 2
Posted on Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Microsoft has decided. The feed indicator in IE 7 is still orange!
Most surprisingly it’s the same one that Firefox has. Well, not so much of a surprise, because it was the Mozilla foundation who kindly ‘donated’ it:
Thanks again to the Mozilla team for making the icon available and helping us do the right thing [...]
Posted in Atom, Browsers, Design, Firefox, General, Internet, Internet Explorer, News, RSS, Webdesign, Webfeeds | 1 Comment »
Let’s make the Google API an open standard.
Posted on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Here’s a good idea:
An open message to Microsoft and Yahoo, and major implementors of search engines: Please clone the Google API, without the limits.
Posted in Development, General, Google, Internet, MSN Search, Search, Utilities, WebDev, Webfeeds, Yahoo | No Comments »
The Orange Icon..
Posted on Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
You know the one that signals a webfeed (formerly known as RSS or Atom). Over at Microsoft they’re pondering what new icon they should pick. Mind you, this single icon will be viewed by millions of upcoming IE 7 users.
So all you usability guru’s, web designer, graphic designers, … if you have an alternative or [...]
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Google Blog Search fixes referral keywords
Posted on Friday, September 16th, 2005
During the first ‘24 hours’ of live beta, Google’s Blog Search was a nightmare for keyword tracking. Some of you noticed some weird referers showing up in their counter-tools. All this was caused by the redirects from the search results from Blog Search. This meant that anyone entering your site was leaving a referal from [...]
Posted in General, Google, Webfeeds | 1 Comment »
Google Blogsearch & Webfeeds
Posted on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
At first look there are no orange XML/RSS chicklets in Google Blogsearch. But if you look at the bottom of the page just above the pagination there’s this line where you can subscribe to either an Atom or RSS feed for the search results.
E.g.: “Thinklemon” search results in Atom and “Thinklemon” search results in RSS.
This [...]
Posted in Atom, Browsers, Development, Firefox, General, Google, Internet, MSN Search, News, RSS, Search, ThinkLemon, Utilities, WebDev, Webfeeds | No Comments »
Just a thought.
Posted on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
The present: Most people come to you via a search engine (probably through Google, although Yahoo! is on the return). Some people come via Technorati, Bloglines or other RSS feed engine. And some are family, friends, co-workers, affiliates, … the people you meet in real life. All 6 of them.
Given the state of [...]
Posted in Atom, Design, Development, General, Google, Internet, MSN Search, RSS, Search, ThinkLemon, WebDev, Webdesign, Webfeeds, Yahoo | 3 Comments »
Atom 1.0 specs official
Posted on Saturday, August 20th, 2005
The Internet Engineering Taskforce has decided: It’s official, Atom 1.0 is here.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.txt
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Enough with the RSS, just call it webfeeds!
Posted on Friday, August 19th, 2005
I’ve been following the ‘discussion’ a.k.a. mud-slinging for some time now. And sorry for mister Winer, but it’s everything against the name. Acronyms are fine, just as long as there’s something simple to back it up. A CD is a shiny silver disc that holds (expensive) music. A DVD is a shiny silver disc that [...]
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RSS Statistical facts
Posted on Thursday, August 11th, 2005
While we’re on the subject of RSS. It appears that “only 2% of online adults and 5% of online teens in North America use RSS, according to Forrester.” They are also mainly male, spend more time online than non-RSS readers, technically interested, surf broadband and/or wireless, mainly read news, research products and publish/maintain blogs. (In [...]
Posted in Atom, Development, General, Internet, News, RSS, Utilities, WebDev, Webfeeds | 1 Comment »
RSS Ping
Posted on Thursday, August 11th, 2005
Here’s something interesting:
RSS Ping combines RSS item metadata with site update information. It enhances the current ping specification, adding information about exactly what has been updated or published, with the notification that something has been updated. RSS Ping reduces the need to revisit or work done by aggregators and search engines when revisiting the publisher [...]
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