Google has rolled out a subtle change to Google Reader that lets you create custom feeds to track pages that don’t already have them. You can subscribe to updates for any webpage simply by typing the URL into the “Add a subscription” text box.
A few bit.ly users who also heavily use Delicious and Twitter have asked for an easier way to sync all these services. We recently came up with a pretty good way to automate this sync process using Twitterfeed.
By filtering your results by popularity, you'll be able to pare down a bunch of results that are presumably all relevant into the top sites on your topic, or some surprising ones you might not have heard of.
Love Digg's RSS feed but don't have time to keep up with it all? Disstill is like your regular Digg RSS feed but filters out stories below the minimum diggs that you set.
A serialized feed is one in which posts are arranged in a linear order and where subscribers always begin with the first post, no matter when they subscribe to the feed. This contrasts with an ordinary RSS feed, in which a subscriber will begin with today's post, no matter when the feed started.
The ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service makes it easy for academics, researchers, students and anyone else to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material by enabling them to find, display, store, combine and reuse thousands of journal tables of contents from multiple publishers.
As we watch Feedburner crash and burn even worse than ever before, Dave Winer has decided to put his money where his mouth is, so to speak. At the beginning of this month, he announced that he's building Feedsqueezer, a Feeburner competitor that may end up being the only viable option we'll have when it comes to feed management.
PostRank claims to measure social engagement, including blog posts responding to someone else, bookmarking an article, leaving a comment on a blog, or clicking a link to read a news item.
Adobe AIR app that lets you display items in your RSS feeds in a scrolling ticker on any edge of your screen. Not for the faint of heart or the information averse.
Converts an rss feed into an image linked to the original feed that can be displayed on any web page (including WordPress.com). No need for RSS parsers.
CoveritLive's web based software publishes your commentary in real time like an instant message. One-click publishing lets you add polls, videos, pictures and audio clips instantly, and take questions.
Though it may seem like everything has an RSS feed nowadays, lots of sites still lack the feature. Fortunately, there's Dapper: The Data Mapper, a web service that will take information from a site and package it in the form of your choice.
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers.
Tagging online content is something that doesn't seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to. Is it too complicated for widespread adoption?
Reader's friend list comes from the list of people you can chat with on Google Talk or Gmail chat. To invite friends to see your Reader shared items, simply invite them to chat. To remove them, delete them from your Gmail contacts, or from your Talk list.