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WP-Cache fix for Content-Type in feeds

6/19/2007 – 12:56 pm

If you run a busy WordPress site, or even if your site just has a lot of processor-intensive plugins, then you probably already run the WP-Cache plugin (plugin directory, original announcment, recent security update info). [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Plugins, Software, Standards, WordPress | Tagged Atom, Feeds, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Syndication, WordPress | Comments (12)

Feedlounge is live

1/25/2006 – 5:52 pm

This is old news now, but what the heck — I haven’t posted in a while, and this will be quick. In case you didn’t already know, FeedLounge, that fantabulous online feed reader that all the Cool Kids have been raving about, is out of testing and ready for the world. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Services | Tagged FeedLounge, Feeds, RSS | Comments (9)

The State of FeedLounge

12/5/2005 – 11:25 am

Alex has posted a moderately detailed article explaining The State of FeedLounge. For any newcomers who don’t know what FeedLounge is, it’s a web based feed aggregator, not unlike BlogLines. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Applications, Atom | Tagged Aggregators, Ajax, FeedLounge, Feeds, RSS, Web | Comments (10)

Google Blog Search

9/14/2005 – 5:31 pm

I may be a little late coming to this party, but Google has introduced Google Blog Search, which limits searches to just blogs (well, in theory, anyhow). The most interesting thing about this, to me, is that GBS provides the search results for your terms as Atom and RSS feeds.

It seems that Google is leveraging blog feeds to get structured data, and monitoring ping sites for timely updates. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Atom, Blogs, Search | Tagged Atom, Feeds, Google, pingomatic, RSS, Web | Comments (1)

New My Yahoo Beta brings RSS to the masses

9/28/2004 – 4:51 pm

From Jeremy Zawodny’s blog:

Well, we just launched a beta of the next generation of My Yahoo that fits into that reality. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Search | Tagged API, Atom, RSS, Technorati, Web, yahoo | Comments (1)

The Conversational Web

1/28/2003 – 12:57 pm

A lot of blog development of late has been directed towards establishing connections between multiple weblogs via mechanisms such as Trackback, Pingback, and friends. Throw in a little RSS and a news aggregator that can tell you where to go to comment on an article. [...]