Mar
25

Cool RSS Stuff I Learned from FriendFeed

rss_icon Over the past few days, I’ve discovered lots of new RSS stuff, thanks to all the links and info flowing by on FriendFeed.

  • From Louis Gray, I learned of Toluu, which aims to bring back the joy of "Share My OPML," (now defunct). Currently an invite-only beta, when the site launches, you’ll be able to upload your OPML, mark your favorite feeds, and find users similar to you, based on what you both read. Sounds like it will be a great way to discover new feeds to read (if you can stand to read anymore, that is!)
  • From Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Ma.gnolia’d bookmark, viewed on FriendFeed of course, I learned of SimplePie, an easy-to-use RSS aggregator/tool/plugin. Now, which SimplePie Wordpress plugin should I try first?
  • From Sean Ammirati’s tweet posted on FF, I learned about the Enterprise RSS Day (April 24th), which will "provide Enterprise RSS champions with materials and information they can use to run their own awareness campaigns inside their own organizations." Go socialprise!
  • From Corvida (SheGeeks)’s FF, I saw a "Shared Item from Google Reader" pointing to an entry on WinExtra about how FriendFeed is "your new nerve center." I had to leave a little FF-loving comment that "FF is way more fun than using an RSS reader." (This probably explains why Google Reader keeps saying 1000+ to me. I wish I could hide that…too much pressure).
  • And finally, all on my own, I discovered something I probably should have already known, but hey, 3 years late is better than never, right? Apparently, in Microsoft’s Live Search, any web search can be turned into an RSS feed. (Yeah, not just "News.") You just run the search on live.com, then append the text ‘&format=rss’ to the URL. Subscribe. Nifty!

Using my newfound power, I made a custom search feed which looks for mentions of "ReadWriteWeb.com" on Mixx.com, since I had Mixx on my brain this morning. (Digg link) Added to my iGoogle, which now has a "Conversations" tab, where I put all my RSS links from this post.

FriendFeed, I think I love you.

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5 Comments to “Cool RSS Stuff I Learned from FriendFeed”

  1. shegeeks says:
    March 25, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    Damn! This was a great post with some neat tools and mashups.

  2. Jan Mckinley says:
    March 25, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    Cool tips! You might also want to checkout Feedity – http://www.feedity.com – a promising service for scraping data (web to RSS) that I’ve been using for the past few weeks to create all sorts of feeds. Its a really simple service to fuel those mashups. Just my .2c :)

  3. Caleb Elston says:
    March 25, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    We just launched the private beta of Toluu and FriendFeed has been instrumental in getting the word out, and finding some amazingly passionate users. Their new API will certainly be something to watch for making it even easier to post and pull.

    If you would like to try Toluu please visit http://www.toluu.com/betainvite and we will get you an invite as quickly as possible.

    Caleb
    Toluu

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