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Feed Pitstop - RSS Tweaking & Fine Tuning
A one-stop lens for Web feed discovery, management and promotion. Tune-in to the latest web-buzz, generate customized content channels and distribute your own media using the best RSS tools and services. A comprehensive RSS hub for daily news and tool updates.
Feed Pitstop helps you...
- Find syndicated feeds for news, audio and video content
- Develop a strategy and system for managing your feeds
- Fuel your feed readers and RSS web-widgets with relevant information and content.
Access Cool Web Publishing Tools
Newsmasters, Bloggers, podcasters and other media publishers will find a range of feed syndication tools to help with content distribution and promotion. There's also a selection of hardware devices and software applications for managing web communications.
Track Hot News and Blog Buzz
Use the MediaSpheres browser or Buzz Monitor module below to quickly scan feeds from the hottest, most influencial social networks and blog communities. The Web Buzz Explorer link opens a hub of tools and services for news and feed tracking.
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What are Web Feeds and What is RSS?
Web feeds are special documents that can be read by computers and used to deliver information updates. These 'news' items can be received by applications known as 'feed readers or news aggregators'.
You can subscribe to feeds and get automatic updates as they are published, either online or by downloading to your computer. The process is known as 'syndication' and many feeds may be read from one, central location rather than accessing multiple web sites. You can receive any kind of content including news headlines, blog posts, lists, audio and video podcasts etc. To find out more visit Wikipedia Web feed
About RSS
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for sharing and distributing Web content. RSS, along with Atom, is the format used to deliver web feeds. You can recognize a feed by the small orange icon found on web pages like the one at the top of this lens. The icon may sometimes show the letters RSS or XML. To find out more visit Wikipedia RSS file format
This RSS Tutorial by Mark Nottingham explains the features and benefits of RSS, including a brief technical overview.
For more information on feed readers and a list of aggregators see: Wikipedia News aggregator
About OPML
Launch this Grazer app for An introduction to OPML and its Resources.
You can subscribe to feeds and get automatic updates as they are published, either online or by downloading to your computer. The process is known as 'syndication' and many feeds may be read from one, central location rather than accessing multiple web sites. You can receive any kind of content including news headlines, blog posts, lists, audio and video podcasts etc. To find out more visit Wikipedia Web feed
About RSS
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for sharing and distributing Web content. RSS, along with Atom, is the format used to deliver web feeds. You can recognize a feed by the small orange icon found on web pages like the one at the top of this lens. The icon may sometimes show the letters RSS or XML. To find out more visit Wikipedia RSS file format
This RSS Tutorial by Mark Nottingham explains the features and benefits of RSS, including a brief technical overview.
For more information on feed readers and a list of aggregators see: Wikipedia News aggregator
About OPML
Launch this Grazer app for An introduction to OPML and its Resources.
A Really Simple Syndication Primer with Web 2.0 bits
These videos provide a quick and clear introduction to web feeds and their place in the Social Web (Web 2.0).
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Buzz Monitor - Feed Singlegators
See what's new and what's popular on the most influencial social media networks and news sources. You can use these single-page aggregators to quickly scan Web feeds for interesting stories, music and videos.
- Original Signal
- Provides several on-page aggregators for tracking web buzz. The main purpose of the site is to provide a quick glance on what's happening without using your desktop/web RSS reader.
- Popurls
- Web dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet.
- Alltop
- All the top headlines from popular topics around the web.
- Web Buzz Explorer
- A categorized list of tools and services for tracking social media. The sources allow you to scour online news, track personal projects, watch trends, discover new media and build your own social applications. Whether it's the best blog stories, music mashups or viral videos, these sites will help you find the most recent and most popular emergent data.
RSS Compendium Blog
Fresh links to information about RSS readers, resources and tools.
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Combined Feed Management Services
These are web-services that allow you to perform a range of tasks for multiple blogs or podcasts.
- Autopinger
- A free service to help you ping your blogs and podcasts to most available blog/podcast search engines and aggregators remotely and automatically.
- Big in Japan
- An integrated toolkit for prosumer bloggers. Host and create podcasts, manage multiple feeds, ping notification, make your feeds available via mail, IM & SMS, convert email into RSS and more.
- Feedburner
- The world's largest feed management provider and advertising network for feeds. Offers Web-based services to help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web. Provides stats, widgets, landing page and other tools.
- Verisign Feed Manager
- A free service for managing up to 10 feeds. Allows you to monetize your content and blog feeds, measure traffic generated by your content and blog feeds. Functions include the ability to rename your feed, truncate headlines and administer and apply a consistent style across multiple feeds. Supports podcasts and graphics.
- xFruits
- Compose your own information system using various feed tools. Includes Aggregator RSS, RSS to Web, RSS to Mobile, Post to RSS, RSS to PDF and more.
Feed Promotion and Search Engine Submission
Submit your feeds to directories and search engines both manually and automatically.
- Elephant List - Blog Submission Sites
- A comprehensive list of blog directories/search engines where you can submit your blog (one time).
- Feedping
- Submit your feed once to all the feed directory sites and have them track your updates automatically.
- One Click Multiple Blog Services Pinging Tools
- A shortlist of ping notification services for promoting your blog posts as you publish them.
- RSSTop55
- Where to submit RSS feeds and weblog URLs to get more exposure, visibility and reach.
- Submit RSS Feeds
- A list of categorized resources where you can submit your RSS feeds, blogs and podcasts.
Feed Mashups - Creating Customized Feeds
Generate your own web feeds for use both online and on the desktop. These specialized tools allow you to create customized news feeds for your RSS modules, widgets and screensavers. See also OPML module below for similar tools.
- FeedBlendr
- Enter the URLs to any RDF, RSS or Atom (XML) feeds you'd like to blend into a single feed. Creates a 'river of news' style feed with a single URL where you can subscribe to them all at once.
- FeedGit Meta-Search
- A search engine tool designed to locate Web feeds from major search, job and video engines. Covers a wide range of sources and media types and will also generate OPML.
- Google News Feeds
- Where to find Google RSS news feeds and how you may use them.
- Kebberfegg
- A tool to help you generate large sets of keyword-based RSS feeds at one time. Choose from HTML or OPML output formats.
- List of Search Engine RSS Generators
- A comprehensive list of search engines that can create RSS feeds based on queries.
- Mac Tiger RSS Screensavers
- Step by step instructions on how to make customized standalone RSS applications and Screensavers using Tiger's Quartz Composer.
- News RSS Generator
- Enter your keywords to create Google, Yahoo! and MSN RSS/ATOM Feeds.
- Pandora Music
- Generate a range of music feeds and Web-widgets using your email ID.
- PubSub
- Allows you to track information across thousands of feeds by creating customized feeds from keywords of your choice. The service also provides tools for statistical analysis of websites including link rank and count.
- TagFetch Meta-Search
- Search across Blogs, News, Bookmarks and Media sites for items tagged by descriptive keywords. All results generate RSS feeds.
- Tag Central Meta-Search
- Generate RSS feeds using keywords for searches on Flickr, Smugmug, Wists, Technorati, BlogMarks, 43 Things, del.icio.us, Connotea, Furl, Upcoming.org, Jots, de.lirio.us, Consumating.
- TagJag Meta-Search
- Generate RSS and OPML feeds for keywords from many different types of search engines.
- Turtilla.com - Rss mashup tool and more.
- An online service which allows you to search and filter content related to your interests. Content is captured from a large variety of sources and the generated results can be converted to an RSS feed.
- Podzinger
- Generate RSS feeds from keyword search results within YouTube videos (search audio within video).
- Yahoo! Pipes
- An interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.
- YouTube RSS Generator
- Enter keywords to generate RSS subscription feeds.
Serialized Web Feeds
Create feeds that can be read in a specific order. Useful for book chapters, tip a day, how-to guides, serial podcasts, etc.
- FeedCycle
- Create, publish and manage cyclic, or serialised, web feeds using the RSS feed format. Feed readers will always see posts in the order you designate such as the chapters of a book 1-2-3 etc. Has the ability to cycle audio (for podcasting), video, PDF and plain text posts (or items). There is a limited free service and a full paid service.
Working with OPML Feeds
OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines. It can be used to exchange/read lists of RSS feeds between RSS aggregators and OPML browsers.
- Bitty Browser
- A small browser that can be embedded in any webpage and can display OPML/RSS feeds. Also provides a mobile version.
- Grazr
- A browser program that is used to display various types of feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats, OPML files. The widget can be embedded within any Web page or a standalone browser can be launched from a link.
- OPML Builder
- Lets you create an OPML file from a list of RSS url or from the links included in any web page.
- OPML Compendium
- A list of links to resources about OPML - Outline Processor Markup Language.
- OPML Generator
- An online tool to help you generate large files of keyword-based RSS feeds at one time.
- OPML Manager
- An online OPML manager and hosting service.
- Optimal
- An OPML browser and widget generator for embedding the browser in webpages.
- Share your OPML
- A commons for sharing outlines, feeds, and taxonomy.
- MonitorThis - Tracking Tool
- Generate 22 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the 'make monitor.opml' button to get a list of rss feeds in OPML format.
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Get Local Blog and Media Feeds
Create your own customized feeds based on local interests.
- Blogdigger Local
- A search tool for finding blog and news content from the geographic location of your choice (US only). Just use a selection of keywords, to dynamically create pages of blog posts and news, within a specific distance of any geographic location. The generated page provides an RSS or Atom feed of the latest posts so you can subscribe to automatic updates of new posts in your area of interest.
Mobile Feeds
Mobilize your RSS feeds.
- Winksite Mobile Community
- Set-up a mobile space that's available worldwide on a web-enabled phone, PDA or desktop PC. Each mobile site is outfitted with easy-to-use mobile channels including chat, blog, mobile feed reader, surveys, journal, forum, calendar, guestbook, bookmarks, email and more.
Two-Way RSS Feeds
Tools for creating and managing shared or public feeds.
- SkinnyFarm
- Allows you to create two-way RSS feeds that can be used for discussion groups, shared calendars,and other forms of collaborative communications.
RSS Resources and Support
These sites provide detailed information and catagorized resource lists for all areas of RSS. You can use them to learn more about RSS and discover hundreds of feed services.
- 3spots - Feed and RSS Tools in 5 Steps
- An excellent catagorized list of feed tools and services. The site also provides valuable information and lists on a range of related web topics.
- RSS Compendium
- Extensive lists of RSS related tools and resources.
- RSS Specifications
- A comprehensive reference site detailing everything you need to know about RSS.
- Listible RSS Lists
- All kinds of RSS resources including: Online Feed Aggregators - RSS Readers - RSS Feed Submission Sites - Feed Mixers etc...
- RSS Tools
- Designed to help people navigate through RSS and locate resources for marketing feeds.
- Wikipedia RSS
- Information about the RSS file format and links to related sites.
Books on Amazon
Learn more about RSS and XML development.
Feed Conversion and Translation Services
Transform your feed data into other formats and languages.
- Feed 2 Podcast
- Instantly turns any RSS feed into a Podcast.
- Native Text
- A free human-powered service that translates RSS feeds from blogs and podcasts into foreign languages.
- RSSConverters.com
- A wizard that converts RSS news feeds and podcasts into Javascript or PHP code. The wizard can process multiple feeds with customization features for display options and style.
Feed Icons and Button Generators
Free RSS/OPML icons and button generators.
- Chicklet Creator
- A feed subscription button maker.
- Feed Icons
- Download standard web feed icons in various colours.
- Flickr RSS Buttons
- A search for RSS buttons on Flickr. Many are shared under Creative Commons licenses.
- OPML Icons
- New OPML icons in AI, EPS, PNG, PDF, and SVG formats.
- RSS Button Maker
- A RSS Button is a small image banner/badge/button/label/sticker (80 pixels wide x 15 pixels high) that has been adapted by the blogging world in order to keep blogs neat and consistant. With this tool you can create your own RSS styled buttons.
Subscriber Tools and Feed Monitoring
Easy ways for for subscribing to feeds and tracking news using any RSS reader, mobile device or email. See also Social Bookmarks module below.
- MultiRSS
- A free service that allows you to replace all of your RSS feed subscription buttons on your blog with one button. People can click on the button and then choose the RSS reader that they use from a list of the 38 most used RSS readers.
- RSSFwd
- Allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds for reading via your email account.
- ZapTXT
- A free service that lets you keep track of your favorite Web sites via email, mobile device or instant messenger.
Social Bookmark Link and Tag Generators
Automatically generate links and tags that make it easy for people to find or bookmark your projects.
- Add This! Social Bookmark and Feed Button - Web2.0 Social Media Optimization
- Simple buttons to help your visitors save and promote your website or blog to the social bookmarking and feed reader services.
- Social Bookmark Link Creator
- A tool that makes it easy for you to add social bookmark links to your blog posts. Choose from the following options: BlinkBits, BlinkList, Blogmarks, Buddymarks, CiteUlike, Connotea, del.icio.us, Digg it, Earthlink, FeedMarker, Flog this!, Feedmelinks, Furl, Give a Link, Gravee, igooi, Lilisto, Linkagogo, Linkroll, ma.gnolia, Maple.nu, My-Tuts, Netvouz, Newsvine, Onlywire, RawSugar,
reddit, Scuttle!, Shadows, Simpy, Spurl, Taggly, tagtooga, TalkDigger, Wink, Yahoo, MyWeb. - Tag Generator & Social Bookmark Link Creator 2.0
- A tool that automatically generates code to insert in your blog posts. Options include: Technorati, Digg, Del.icio.us, Yahoo, BlinkList, Spurl, Reddit, Furl.
Web 2.0 RSS Resources
If you're looking for new ideas and ways to manage RSS feeds, these listings have links to the latest cutting edge sites. See the video below for an understanding of Web 2.0 technologies.
- All Things Web 2.0 - RSS 2.0
- An open directory for Web 2.0 RSS resources.
- EVERYTHING 2.0 - RSS 2.0
- A list of feed discovery, publishing and management resources.
- Web 2.0 RSS Services
- A list of around 90 rss-feeds-readers-aggregators-management-services.
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kmartone
Nice lens. It amazes me how powerful RSS feeds can be. Yet very few people are taking advantage of them yet. Posted June 30, 2008 |
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printerinkcartridge
Wow! So much information, it will take me the rest of the day to check all this out. Great lens - a 5. Posted June 10, 2008 |
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robert320
Great lens, lots of useful resources. I haven't long discovered the rss technology and am embracing it full heartedly now I can see how easy and useful it is to use. I have bookmarked this page. Posted March 03, 2008 |
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kaplan
This is a great lens - very informative about RSS feeds and stuff. I'm giving you a 5...wonder why only a handful of people have discovered it yet! Posted June 11, 2007 |
