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AP eyes news aggregators; Risks exposing its lack of value add

AP eyes news aggregators; Risks exposing its lack of value addThe dirty little secret of the mediaYour post is dead on. The media's reliance on press releases, public filings, and prepared statements is the deep dark secret of incumbent media. Newspaper editors constantly complain about press releases and swear up...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, value-add, eyes news aggregator, news aggregator, media

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Adtribution links could keep news free

Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press have been stepping up their rhetoric over shutting out the news aggregators and other "parasites" from copying their content for free. News might be free today, but it won't be free for ever because it's not free to produce. That is...

Tags: Adtribution, News Aggregator, News Story, Blogging, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-04-07

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Cyndicate 1.3 (Mac)

Cyndicate is an RSS/Atom aggregator and content management applica- tion. In other words, Cyndicate will help you manage, view, read, and rate the syndicated content or feeds you'll find on person blogs, news sites, forums, and around the Web.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Cynical Peak Software, Cyndicate, Web Technology, Content Management, Blogging, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-27

RiverGate RSS Reader 3.1 (Windows)

RiverGate RSS Reader is a news aggregator or feed reader that uses Web feed to retrieve syndicated Web content such as Web logs, podcasts, blogs, and mainstream media Web sites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results. RiverGate Rss Reader reduces the time...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Best Security Tips, RiverGate RSS Reader, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-22

Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic?

Typical MicrosoftThis is normal business practice for MS. Partner up with someone, take what they need, then discard them.Ask anyone from RealNetworks how their partnership went.It's about search.Wow, it looks like the volume of search users use the search engine that delivers better results.Google search is better than Bing...

Tags: E-mail, SEARCH, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

VIP Rumor RSS Reader 3.1 (Windows)

VIP Rumor RSS Reader is a totally free news aggregator or feed reader that utilizes Web feed technology to retrieve syndicated Web content like blogs, podcasts, videologs, and typical media Web sites, or a customized set of search results. VIP Rumor RSS Reader reduces time and effort needed to frequently...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, VIP Rumor, VIP Rumor RSS Reader, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Podcasts, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Yahoo gains respect, credibility as news outlet; looks to expand offerings

Good for them!Somebody had got to discover the news and write the stories or else Google will have nobody to ripoff and create aggregate news pages. Google is a real bloodsucker as well as an aggregator of personal information about everybody that uses their services. Yahoo has lead...

Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo! Inc., media need, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Newsmakers: Be careful what you wish for

Without Google they get no trafficIt does not take a rocket scientist to know that without Google, most of this news sites would probably have little to now traffic at all.So how is Google stealing from them? Since when is sending customers to your door a bad thing?Without the...

Tags: Web site development, Operational accounting, Google Inc., Google News

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

CDC Media Aggregator 1.1 (Mobile)

CDC Media Aggregator application is a simple RSS aggregator of talks, news and other audio events of cdc. All Audio is available free at cdc.gov as RSS feeds. This application was designed to provide easier access to the following events like CDC featured podcasts, CDC featured podcasts, emerging infectious diseases,...

Tags: Mobile, Health Care, CDC Media Aggregator Application, RSS, Podcasts, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Internet, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Italian regulators examine Google News

In return for Don't Sue MeI thought the motivation behind the Google company decision was the lawsuits that publishers filed against both the news aggregation and the listing in Google search results. At least originally, it was more the newspapers giving permission so they couldn't sue Google if their copy...

Tags: SEARCH, Google News, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now

The Google Reader team posted a blog entry today with some results of a survey it conducted. The team wanted to know what an elite group of "Power Readers" were reading online - presumably using their Google Reader account - and so they asked them and have highlighted some suggested...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Reader, Twitter Inc., Blog, RSS, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-25

IlohaMail 0.8.14rc3 (Mac)

IlohaMail (pronounced: e-lo-ha-mail) is a light weight yet full featured multilingual webmail program that is easy to use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require databases although database support is available or the IMAP library (it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library)....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Development, Ilohamail.org, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-08-22

Manila 9.5 (Mac)

UserLand's Manila website and weblog publishing system makes it simple for anyone to create and use web content, collaborate on projects, manage online discussion groups, podcast and share documents. Offering amazing functionality at an even more amazing price, Manila 9.6 makes it easy to publish websites, weblogs, intranets and portals....

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, built-In, Web Site, UserLand, Web Site Development, RSS, Channel Management, Web Technology, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-26

Semantic Technology Conference kicks off with Keynotes from Open Calais and Siri

This year's Semantic Technology Conference got fully underway this morning, with Keynote presentations from Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters' Open Calais Initiative and Tom Gruber from Siri. Despite the wider economic situation, attendance for this fifth year of the event feels a little up on last year, and there's...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Tool, Siri, Tom Tague, Tague, Enterprise Adoption, Virtual Personal Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant Paradigm, Podcasts, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Social PR Survey II: Continued disconnect between clients, agencies

Back in February I published the results of a social public relations survey that attempted to gauge client satisfaction levels with their current PR agencies. What showed up was dismal - and really showed that client trust in their agencies was low. Given that data, and several...

Tags: Agency, Social Media, Client, Survey, Advertising & Promotion, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-05-11

FastTrackNews 2.01 (Windows)

FastTrackNews is a free portable RSS feed reader and news aggregator. The program reduces the time and effort needed to regularly check mass media Websites for updates and can be used as news and blog browser. Once subscribed to a feed, FastTrackNews is able to check for new content at...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, FastTrackSoft, FastTrackNews, RSS, Microsoft Outlook, Channel Management, Internet, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-04-18

We're all aggregators. Get over it, AP.

We're all aggregators. Get over it, AP.WWW = aggregator the world wide web is a aggregatoreveryone is quoteing everyone, i dont think AP get s how big this will be for them to *sue* the internet RE: We're all aggregators. Get over it, AP.No, no, no.... Let the A.P....

Tags: INTERNET, Dinosaur, Aggregators, aggregator

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

BitsCast 0.15 (Windows)

Bitscast is an RSS reader/database/aggregator and a podcast receiver/player. It handles all news feeds in RSS 0.9, 1.0, 2.0, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0; provides advanced supports for multiple channels, subscription lists, and channel/list management; supports OPML import/export and RSS feed auto-detection. Bitscast also includes media (audio/video software image) auto-downloader and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, BitsCast, BitsCast 0.15, RSS, Podcasts, Internet

Software downloads 2009-04-09

The "Me Too" Kindle 2 Review

Amazon's Kindle 2 is sleek, stylish, and has a crisp and easy-on-the eyes "electronic ink" display. But it only does one thing -- read books. After all the relatively hostile things I have said about Amazon's Kindle e-book reader in the past, I...

Tags: Device, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle 2, Anathem, Tablets, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Wiki, E-mail, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Crying Wolff? News As We Knew It Dies -- In 8 Years.

Leave it to YouTube to defend "the idea of news" and a Vanity Fair media columnist and online news aggregator to put a deadline of eight years on its demise. Two newspapers in two different two-newspaper towns Seattle and Denver have died in the last month. Journalists...

Tags: News, Corporate Communications, Portals, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-18