Feed Pitstop - RSS Tools & Services for Web Feed Management

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Feed Pitstop for Total RSS Control

A one-stop lens for Web feed discovery, management and promotion. Tune-in to the latest web buzz, generate customized content channels, distribute your own media using the right RSS tools and services. A comprehensive RSS hub for daily news and tool updates.

  • 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 Online Publishing Tools

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

The Buzz Monitor section provides links to several media dashboards. You can use them to quickly scan information from the hottest, most influencial blogs and social networks. Visit Feed Pitstop whenever you need new and trusted feed tools.

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About Web Feeds

What are Web Feeds & 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 or Rich Site Summary) 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.

Videos: Using RSS Feeds 

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These videos provide a quick and clear introduction to web feeds and their place in the Social Web (Web 2.0 platform). Further related videos are available at YouTube/DISSmedia

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Buzz Tracking

Buzz Monitor 

Feed Aggregation

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.
Alltop
All the top headlines from popular topics around the web.
Mediaspheres Browser
A powerful feed reading tool and widget focusing on Internet technology and music. Quickly jump between blogs and streaming media feeds.
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.
Web Buzz Explorer - Social Media Aggregation
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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Recent RSS Bookmarks 

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Feed Tools

Feed Management Toolkits 

These are web-services that combine various 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.
FriendFeed
Automatically imports shared stuff from sites across the web. Discover what your friends are sharing, discuss with people you know, share your stuff from other sites automatically. Create a feed mashup from your favorite blogs and much more.
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 & 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.
King Ping - Update your Blog on all Major Search Engines
Updates your blog in the most important search engines, each carefully chosen to avoid spam problems. Also has the option to automatically check your blog for updates and ping services when new material is found.
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.

Generating Customized Feeds & RSS Mashups 

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 the OPML section further down the page for similar tools.
Feed Informer: Mix, convert, and republish feeds
Professional service that blends and converts RSS and Atom feeds to other formats. Publish combined feeds using a range of widget templates for your web pages.
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.
Feedmysearch -Turn google searches into usefull rss feeds
Turn your usual Google searches into tiny rss feeds. Get instant updates whenever a new result appears significantly on Google. Free yourself from the noise of results moving up and down, only get what is new to your search. Web, news, video, blogs, local, books, images, patent search.
Feed Rinse - Filter RSS Feeds
A web-based tool that allows you to import your feeds and set up filters to block irrelevant posts. It's like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions.
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.
Live Search News
Microsoft's news search with generated RSS feed. Subscribe and stay up to date with stories from all categories or for specific searches that you perform.
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.
Podzinger
Generate RSS feeds from keyword search results within YouTube videos (search audio within video).
RocketNews - Breaking News, Latest News, Current News Stories
Read the latest news headlines from over 60,000 sources, use the news search engine or browse thousands of current news topic pages. Generates RSS feeds and Javascript embed codes for your news search queries. Has a page for all of the main RSS feeds listed by categories such as business, entertainment, etc.
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 - Shopping Online
Allows you to shop for products on Amazon, eBay, and other popular online stores at the same time. You can subscribe to the results in RSS to keep track of the products you may want to buy in the future.
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.
YouTube RSS Generator
Enter keywords to generate RSS subscription feeds.

RSS Mixers 

Feed blending services

Web tools for combining your choice of multiple feeds into a single, mixed feed.
Feedbite
Create custom RSS feeds from your favorite sites. Display them on Feedbite accessible pages or on any other website using PHP or JavaScript.
Feed Informer: Mix, convert, and republish feeds
Easy to use service that blends and converts RSS and Atom feeds to other formats for publishing. Mix feeds to create a Digest, have up to 100 Digests and publish them in a variety of widgetized formats.
FeedMingle
Mingle all your feeds into one to produce a combined RSS, Atom, JSON and a Web widget. makes lives simpler for web designers/developers, feed readers, bloggers, or just anyone who wants to merge two or more RSS / Atom feeds into one. Apart from a feed mixer/merger it can be used as a RSS/Atom to JSON converter, RSS/Atom to widget generator, RSS to Atom or Atom to RSS Converter.
FeedStitch | Take your jumbled mess of feeds and make them one
Makes it easy to pull data feeds from all over the web & stitch them into a single feed. (HTML, RSS, JSON). Integrates with popular social media sites.
Feedweaver - Create your own personalized RSS feeds
Create your own RSS feed by combining RSS feeds from your favorite websites, and use filters to choose what you want in it.
Grazr - Gather Feeds, Create Streams, Publish Widgets
Merge and filter multiple feeds into a single stream. Publish as a widget.
Jumbra.com - Combine all your personal RSS/Atom feeds into one!
Combine all your personal RSS and Atom feeds into one easy-to-use feed URL. Powered by Google App Engine. You can add new feeds to your list and your combined jumbra feed will update automatically.
RSS Mix - Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed
To create a new RSS Mix, copy and paste the URLs of the existing source feeds into the box and hit Create. You can then point a parser at the new feed and display a mix of stories from various sources on your website.
RSS Mixer - Combine, search and promote feeds
RSS Mixer allows you to mix multiple feeds into one. You can promote your feed, blog, or podcast. Make Apple and Web widgets along with iPhone and mobile pages. Search posts, feeds, and RSS mixes.
Yahoo! Pipes
An interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.

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.

Get Local Blog & 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.

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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.

Feed Conversion & 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.
RSS2twitter
Easy way to publish your content to twitter, directly from your RSS feeds
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.
The Universal Timeline Aggregator
Displays Atom, RSS and RDF feeds using the Timeline DHTML Ajax widget developed by the MIT Simile project. Provides the iframe code to place a timeline graphical display of any feed on your webpages.
Twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter
Easily add your existing feeds, get real-time stats.

Feed Icons & Button Generators 

Free RSS/OPML icons and button generators.
Chicklet Creator
A feed subscription button maker.
Collection of Free RSS Feed Icons
A collection of free, non-standard RSS feed icons that you can use for your next design project.
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 & 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 & 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.

Further Resources

RSS Information & 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.
100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS
A list of ideas and sites you can use to learn, share, and keep up with your interests.
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.
OEDb | The Ultimate RSS Toolset: 100+ Online Apps & Resources
A list of tools to help you get started or improve how you're working with RSS.
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.

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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Richardk_01 wrote...

I 'll be back - this is really something that needs time to figure outhow to leverage it to mke it useful...

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kmartone wrote...

Nice lens. It amazes me how powerful RSS feeds can be. Yet very few people are taking advantage of them yet.

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printerinkcartridge wrote...

Wow! So much information, it will take me the rest of the day to check all this out. Great lens - a 5.

ReplyPosted June 10, 2008

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robert320 wrote...

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.
Thank you
Robert

ReplyPosted March 03, 2008

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kaplan wrote...

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!

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ReplyPosted June 11, 2007