Une série de trois articles sur les RSS présentés par e-week:

RSS Aids Relief Organization

“We work in developing nations helping children get basic medical care, food and education,” said Nydia Teter, international communications specialist at Compassion International, based in Colorado Springs, Colo. “Time is really valuable, and RSS provided an efficient way to get information out.”

 
Don’t Believe RSS Hype

One of the main benefits of RSS is its simplicity. In minutes, I can write an RSS file to syndicate a column or blog, and there are tools that make this process even easier. But the simplicity of RSS also means that it doesn’t have a whole lot of intelligence over its delivery.

RSS Makes Enterprise Headlines

Indeed, RSS has already gained a foothold in the enterprise. A growing number of organizations use the format to create content and knowledge management systems; to disseminate information to customers; and to syndicate application, database and object data. The Salesforce.com Inc. customer relationship management system, for example, can be extended to support RSS to alert users of changes to the system. In addition, Salesforce.com can be customized so that any Web-based RSS reader can be embedded into the application, allowing users, for example, to set up searches on their top customers.

Le dernier Firefox 1.0PR est doté de plusieurs améliorations au niveau de l’intégration des flux RSS. Je viens par exemple de constater qu’il signale la présence d’un flux dans un site, on peut le mettre dans les favoris et consulter les derniers billets. Même chose pour le client mail Thuderbird 0.8équipé d’un agrégateur.

Via Lockergnome (que je commence à détester par le nombre important et imposant de bannières publicitaires) le lien vers le site de l’agrégateur de flux RSS gratuit NewsFire installable sur Mac OS X.

Pour Windows uniquement avec le .NET Framework v1.1 installé: http://www.synop.com/Products/SauceReader/

Dans l’article: RSS, trois lettres pour révolutionner le Net (merci nico)

Serence KlipFolio is an information awareness and notification application for Windows that saves you time and effort by intelligently monitoring remote data sources–like weather, stocks, Hotmail, news, RSS feeds and even auctions–right on your desktop.

http://www.serence.com/site.php (via Scobleizer)

Quelques conseils à suivre pour améliorer les informations contenues dans les flux RSS dans l’article RSS usability guidelines.

however, as RSS is young and not all publishers seem to consume the feeds they produce themselves, there are still a lot of teething problems. i have taken notes of common feed publishing errors that caught my attention, so if you consider adding a RSS feed to your website or weblog you might want to use my list as a RSS usability guideline. in case you are the author of one of the feeds quoted (which are all great and recommendable - they wouldn’t be on my blogroll otherwise!) kindly understand that as constructive feedback, and feel free to drop a comment below.

Source RSS Lockergnome

The Semantic Social Network

Two types of technologies are about to merge. The technologies are content syndication, used by blogging websites around the world, and social networking, employed by sites such as Friendster and Orkut. They will merge to create a new type of internet, a network within a network, and in so doing reshape the internet as we know it.

The purpose of this article is two-fold. On the one hand, it is to describe the emerging Semantic Social Network (SSN) and to sketch the nature of the new internet we are about to experience. And on the other, it is to promote the development of the SSN by describing to developers the sorts of systems required and to suggest how the SSN can be used.

C’est ce que dit Greg Hughes et que je confirme (source Nick Bradbury)

RSS has made me a more productive, and therefore (in theory ) more valuable employee where I work. A huge part of my job is staying up to date with the latest technology, trends and issues. I subscribe to a couple hundred feeds that I review several times daily, some of which are aggregated feeds or feeds that are the result of a search of thousands of blogs and other sources for certain keywords or subjects. Then there’s the couple hundred others that I review periodically, both work-related and otherwise.

Via le blog de Nick Bradbury, Google.RSS permet de placer dans un fichier RSS les résulats d’une requête dans le moteur de recherche Google. Voici l’adresse du fichier RSS associé aux résultats en tapant weblogger.ch

Ce service, étant en version béta, ne fonctionne pas toujours.