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RSS Statistical facts
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…
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RSS Ping
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…
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Pingoat – The stable of all pings
Pingoat is a new ping-service, since the 21st of July. Or as they put it: What in the world is Pingoat! ? Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated…
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Talk Digger – Blogpost Metasearch
Talk Digger is a (beta) service that let’s you search for your blogposts instantaneously in the likes of Bloglines, Technorati, BlogPulse, PubSub, Icerocket, Feedster, BlogDigger, MSN Search and Google. It returns the number of occurrences with details on click and a trend. You can use a bookmarklet, enter a URL or make a direct link.…
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IE7 UserAgent string
Is it (Apart from being spoofed) ?: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Except for the .NET stuff… IS IE7 dependant on the .NET Framework? Just some thoughts… Anyhow, anyone building around a useragent-string isn’t doing the right thing. 🙂
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Firefox: Europe beats North America
According to French market analysis company XiTi the market share of Firefox in Europe is 14.11%. Market share in North America is only 11.78%. But Australia takes the lead with 14.41%. 😉 Zooming in on Europe, the leading country is Finland with a staggering 31.03% followed by Germany with a 24,5% market share. All in…
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Tagzania – Tagging the planet
Someone must have thought: “What’s cool these days? Flickr, del.icio.us, tagging, folksonomy, Google Maps, RSS, KML, … What if I combined these?” Enter Tagzania. Geotagging using the Google Maps API. Or as they put it: Tagzania is about tags and places. If you register and log in, you can add places, points, to create and…
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Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla
IBM has published a lengthy article explaining how you can make your IE only site work in e.g. Firefox, Opera or Safari. The article handles browser, DOM, JavaScript, CSS, Event and XML differences. It even touches Quirks vs. Standards mode and Rich Text Editing. Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work…
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Yahoo! Finance & Corporate Egosurfing
Yahoo! Finance now offers Company News via RSS. Great for some Corporate Egosurfing. 🙂 Just go to the Yahoo! – Company News via RSS page, enter your stock symbol or symbols and cut & paste the generated feed in your aggregator of choice. See also: Corporate Egosurfing, or how to get market info for free.
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MSN Virtual Earth Beta
MSN could not stay behind longer so they released their own Google Maps called MSN Virtual Earth. Both can display maps and/or satellite imagery. Both offer ‘local search’. Both use somewhat of the same navigation tools. But IMHO it’s not the ‘Google killer’ yet, but see for yourself. Pizza in Redmond: Virtual Earth vs. Google…