RSS feeds http://www.webupon.com/tags/RSS feeds New posts about RSS feeds Five Next Generation RSS Tools for the Smart Surfer http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Five-Next-Generation-RSS-Tools-for-the-Smart-Surfer.89301 In my previous articles, I showed you how smart surfers use RSS to save lots of time (Are you a smart surfer?) and then introduced you to 10 best websites for which you should have the RSS feeds for (10 Life Changing Websites and Best RSS Feeds). In this article, I will show you how to play around with the RSS feeds you have created. Given below are five useful web based RSS tools which can be real time savers.

  1. FeedJournal


    2. Feed journal is a new generation award winning RSS tool which will enable you to gather your blogs in the form of a news paper. It is a proven fact that you can read 25% faster if the content is on paper. The site has got a reader (to aggregate your RSS content) as well as a publisher (which lets you publish your own content). But as the reader is more popular, let us discuss that in this article. You can specify various parameters like the news paper size etc. The content will be published just like your ordinary news paper and will be suitable for taking print outs.

  2. ReminderFeed


    3. This website acts as a reminder service that delivers reminder messages right to your feed reader. Lots of the people have the habit of checking their RSS feeds first thing in the morning. In that case, using reminderfeed.com to set reminders can work for you. The interface is very easy to create. You just need to key in the title, Start date & End date of the reminder and a short description. The last step is to specify which RSS reader you are using and you are done. If you go and check the RSS reader, you will find a new link.
    The problem with this idea is that there are lots of scheduler and other stuff which can be used for setting reminders. The idea is good, but the question remains whether majority of people are going to like this idea or not.

  3. ZapTXT


    4. Zaptxt.com allows you to create custom keyword searches to track your favorite rss-enabled websites via email, instant messenger or mobile device. You have to select the blogs which you need zaptxt to track and then give the search key word. You can also give tags for your search. The three options of delivering the processed content are Email, IM or directly to your mobile. The frequency can also be specified which ranges from every day to as soon as possible. If you are interested in only a particular category of blog posts in the whole blog, then zaptxt is the tool for you.

  4. Spoken Text


    5. SpokenText.net is a completely free website which allows you to record PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically. You can download your recording as an iPod book or mp3 file. And every member gets a personal podcast URL , which you can use to download recordings to iTunes or your iPod. You can also easily share your recordings on your web site or blog using SpokenText Badges or individual recording players. You can also create a dynamic badge of public Spoken Text recordings that you can easily add to your web site or your blog.

  5. Mail Bucket

    6. This is an experiment in alternative methods of email management. For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to slurp@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/slurp.xml (where you choose slurp, having checked that it's not already in use).

    The service is probably most useful to those who lurk on high-traffic mailing lists, but it could also be used as a rudimentary bridge between applications, with email as the transfer protocol.

]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:31:38 PST 10 Useful Websites to Increase the Popularity of Your Blog http://www.webupon.com/Blogging/10-Useful-Websites-to-Increase-the-Popularity-of-Your-Blog.66903 There are millions of blogs being published on the Internet everyday by both amateur and professional bloggers from all over the world. You name the subject and surely you will be able to find blogs dedicated to that specific subject without too much trouble. The problem is, will Internet surfers find your blog or someone else's blog?

Whether or not, your blog becomes popular will also rely on the quality of your content and the overall presentation of the information that you designed your blog to share.

The following websites offer useful Internet tools to help bloggers customize the blog's look and excellent free marketing tools, so to help increase the blog's popularity on the Internet.

  1. Blogicas

    Sometimes, less is really more and this website is a shining example of this way of thinking. Bloggers can find a small army of marketing tools to use to promote any blog to the masses on this website. This is a excellent website to find free blog and rss feed directories, free blog hosting, free blog templates and other free blog tools. I simply love the layout of this website, clean and uncluttered with the Internet tools in plain sight.

  2. Site Ground

    This website was selected to be included on this list, because of an excellent assortment of articles written to teach the do's and don'ts of some of the most popular weblogs: Wordpress, bBlog, b2evolution, Nucleus and TextPattern. (Please, note that this is a commercial website that sells hosting solutions, but this site was only added to this list, because of the articles noted above).

  3. PhotoShop Support

    Photoshop tutorials by Jennifer Apple offers her visitors an amazing range of easy to follow blog tutorials and other designing tips for bloggers developing their blog appearance from scratch. This is an extremely useful website/blog to learn new ways to jazz up your blog with ease.

  4. Settlement Quotes

    Now, here is something fun for any blogger who would like to add a tad of entertainment value to their blog. This website offers a decent variety of quizzes, widgets, badges and gadgets for your blog.

  5. Weblog Tools Collection

    This is a nice website to keep up-to-date on new WordPress software releases and obtain helpful blog tools to customize the blogs appearance and usability once presented to the visitors.

  6. Vladimir Prelovac Online

    One of the best ways to drastically improve the popularity of a blog is to add a robust RSS feed to your blog. Do you not understand what a RSS feed is or does, then if not this blog will answer that question and give you some tips about how to get a RSS feed setup for use on your blog.

  7. TopRank Online Marketing

    This neat website offers its visitors a useful set of Internet tools to make marketing your blog less time-consuming and these tools are free. Bloggers can easily submit their blogs to more than 80 blog and RSS directories, or study marketing tips and tactics and more. Remember, some times less is more and again this website illustrates that simplicity communicates with the audience better than complex blog design structures.

  8. HubSpot

    This website helps bloggers and webmasters measure the marketing effectiveness of their blogs or websites on the Internet. The Website Grader is a free SEO tool that scores your blog or website on things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors, so to keep bloggers and webmasters in touch with their marketing efforts.

  9. Marketing Leap

    This is a great website to use to check research your blog's search engine saturation, link popularity and keyword verification. Incorporate this Internet Blog Tool with the other marketing tools to strengthen the overall marketing value of your popularity campaign.

  10. Online Marketing Blog

    This is an outstanding blog about “How to market your blog more effectively” and just for starters, it does an excellent job of listing 25 things you can to do promote your blog better and that is just for starters. Here is your chance to learn new marketing tips and start developing new marketing techniques that might give you the marketing edge in the future.

Disclaimer: The websites on this list are not affiliated in a business relationship with the author Nelson Doyle. The websites on this list are not paid advertisers and were selected by Nelson Doyle, because of their creative contributions to millions upon millions of bloggers worldwide.

]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:38:25 PST Firefox developers happy with assistance from Microsoft http://www.webupon.com/Browsers/Firefox-developers-happy-with-assistance-from-Microsoft.31656 Sam Ramji, head of Microsofts open­source­laboratory, offered Mozilla-developers to see to that Firefox and Thunderbird would work fine under Windows Vista. Meanwhile the Mozilla-developers showed, by mouth of Loaf Beltzner, to certainly have interest in this cooperation. The past time Firefox- and Thunderbird-programmers already tested if their software still works as it should under Windows Vista. There has also been added a code to the software to make it compatible to work with the 'Default Program' -infrastructure, by which at one central place the standard programs are adjusted for certain uses such as, surfing on the internet or listening to music.

It is also a good idea to look at the effects of the security features of Windows Vista on Firefox and Thunderbird and integration with InfoCard could possibly be a good idea, according to Beltzner. Another thing to look into, according to Beltzner, is to let Firefox and Thunderbird make use of the central warehouse for RSS- and Atom-feeds in the new Windows-version, and an integration of Thunderbird with the calendar and the address book in Windows Vista. These are some of the ideas that Firefox has and with the assistance of Microsoft are hoping to accomplish. If all these ideas will worked out is yet unknown, but there is still a lot to do for the Mozilla- and Microsoft-developers.

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