Tag Archive for 'rss'

Pinoy Tech Scene OPML

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Ian Dexter
on 9 March 2006
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Update: Ka Edong gave me a heads-up on Nox’s mirror of Pinoy Tech Scene. Cool!

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Update: Ka Edong, who has been missing Pinoy Tech Scene, wants to know how OPML works. I don’t know myself, but it’s a convenient way of getting all those blogs in one place. Thanks to Migs, I’ve come upon OPtiMaL, a web-based OPML browser — just feed it the URL to the OPML file, and voila! you’ve got your own aggregator.

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The Pinoy Tech Scene aggregator is currently down — a blank page shows up on http://techscene.free.net.ph. For those who want the OPML, you can get it from Jan Alonzo, here. Or grab it here.

I’ve also posted the OPML for Ubuntu-PH Planet.

Cut and paste!

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Ian Dexter
on 4 January 2006
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Just got myself SuprGlued.

Sorry, I was looking for a catchier line, but hey, I’m excited over this thing. In a previous post, I was ranting about how to “leverage” Web 2.0 for work, when I stumbled upon SuprGlu. As their blurb says, it is “about bringing the pieces of your web content together into one central place for you, your friends, and maybe even your friends to-be.”

What SuprGlu does is gather data from various sources (Blogger, delicious, Flickr, and other Web 2.0-ish sites), using those sources’ RSS feeds, and display them in pretty themeable pages. Super! (Sorry, got carried away.) Think: feed aggregator, prettified and webified. :)

Now, if only it will also accept OPML files like regular readers… [via cut-and-paste! on SuprGlu]

New from GMail: ‘Web clips’

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Ian Dexter
on 12 December 2005
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Just got home from a gruelling five-day stint in Davao. I couldn’t stay online for long because our WeROAM links were sluggish. (More on this later.) Imagine my surprise when I checked my GMail:

“Web clips”, as GMail describes them, are snippets of “news headlines, Gmail tips, blogs, any RSS and Atom feed, relevant sponsored links, and more.” They are placed on top of the inbox and messages toolbar.

The feeds are displayed at random, though, not like your regular feed reader.

The Pinoy Farmers’ Internet has RSS

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Ian Dexter
on 28 October 2005
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Subscribe to the Pinoy Farmers’ Internet’s news feeds, brought to you by IceRocket Free RSS Builder.

Update: The IceRocket RSS is deprecated for a new feed, coming soon directly from the PFI.

YA search engine

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Ian Dexter
on 28 October 2005
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IceRocket - Every search is a direct hitTrying out IceRocket, where “every search is a direct hit.” Or so it says.

It is primarily a blog search engine, relying mostly on feeds and syndication to crawl contents in the blogosphere. It offers other search services as well: for web pages, images, news, even phone pics and multimedia.

What I like about it is that it provides other services such as showing blog trends (good for getting metrics on *hot* blog topics), an RSS builder (a poor man’s syndication) and tagging ala-Technorati.

I haven’t compared its hits with that of, say, Google blog search or Technorati.