I’m using the Java based program RSSOwl for my daily feed reading. I tested several desktop and online applications and found RSSOwl to be one of the best suited for my feed reading needs. The feed reader has just been updated to RSSOwl 2.1 which adds several very interesting features to the program. Probably the [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

FeedStitch is a news aggregator that can combine multiple RSS news feeds and other data sources into one RSS feed or Json format. It is by far not as complex as Yahoo Pipes but provides a comfortable and fast way of combining multiple news sources into one. FeedStitch offers multiple third-party ways of logging into [...]

Categories: Online Services

How are most Internet users discovering new interesting blogs? The most popular methods are probably by following links on blogs they already read and by recommendations posted in their feed reader. Yes, there are blog directories like Technorati but most of them concentrate on the top blogs and not on the small but as good [...]

Categories: Search Engines, The Web

I run another popular site together with Everton of Connected Internet. The site I’m talking about is Windows 7 News, a highly popular and well ranked, website about the next Microsoft operating system Windows 7. A reader contacted us earlier today mentioning a problem that he was encountering when trying to view the feed of [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer, The Web

A little known fact is the possibility to subscribe to an RSS feed of WordPress categories, authors or tags instead of the full site feed. This can be really useful if you love to subscribe to one specific author, category or tag of the blog. One prime example could be to subscribe to a Firefox [...]

Categories: ghacks

Google changed my RSS News Feed today from Feedburner to a Google domain on my request. I did that mainly because it is then possible to add Adsense ads to the feed which I’m thinking of trying out. Since it is a transfer of the domain it could mean that some of you are experiencing [...]

Categories: ghacks

I was astonished to see a dip in the amount of feed readers in the last days and decided to investigate the matter. It has happened in the past that Feedburner did have some problems to accumulate the stats correctly or that another party, like Google, did not report the amount of subscribers correctly. This [...]

Categories: Online Services

Readburner looks like a mashup of Digg, Techmeme and Delicious somehow on first glance but it is actually something completely different. The website aggregates shared items from Google Reader displaying those that have been shared on their pages. The service lives under the assumption that quality news stories get shared while those with lesser quality do not.

Categories: Online Services, The Web