Readefine’s newspaper style layout is similar to the widely used magazine style feed readers—Zite, Flipboard, and Pulse—for the iPad. Readefine synks directly with your Google Reader account and provides features not available in the online Google Reader app

Una buena aplicación externa que funciona en base a Google Reader

but last night competitor Pulse added a simple little feature that Flipboard and any other mobile or tablet reader ought to add as well: a bookmarklet users can click to save an article from the Web to read later in Pulse.

Conventional wisdom says that asking users to download a browser plug-in or drag and drop a bookmarklet will cause a huge drop in adoption - that drooling is the only operation most web users are able to perform and should define the outer limit of tools offered to them.

Una excelente adición para esta aplicación que funciona en dispositivos móviles

Twitter has eradicated RSS feeds from its web interface once and for all, following an update to the site’s search page today.

When Twitter launched its redesign late last year it subtly removed RSS feeds for users’ tweets. And while RSS feeds are still available, you have to be willing to jump through some extra hoops to access them.

Of course, there was some suggestion that their removal was accidental, but some 10 months  later this seems not to be the case.

Uno de los peores errores de Twitter, en mi opinión

Creating The RSS File From Emails

Converting an incoming email to an RSS thread isn’t new, but it’s also not easy to find a solution that’s quick and simple. I did discover a really cool and free online service called mmmmail! that will take any incoming email and add it to an RSS file.

Just type in the email address name that you want, and check the system to see if it’s available. Once you find one that’s free, the system creates a repository for all incoming emails, as well as an RSS file where they will all get published.

Otra posible aplicación de un feed RSS con una fuente que suele pasarse por alto: el venerable email

However, with an RSS reader and some Internet savvy, you can build a powerful social media listening post at no cost. This article will show you how.

Knowing where your company is mentioned online, who’s doing the mentioning and how others are responding is crucial to 1) understanding the “buzz” about you, 2) addressing complaints and negative mentions quickly, 3) knowing the impact (or lack thereof) of your marketing efforts, and 4) shaping social media marketing efforts to reach the right people (key influencers) on their preferred platform.

Pocas cosas ilustran la versatilidad y poder del RSS como este artículo. Debería ser lectura obligada para muchos.

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It's plain silly to declare that a successful protocol dies over night. RSS is as alive as HTML and CSS. The question is how long people will use domain based filter technology to find their reading material. In other words: The question is not whether RSS is dead or alive, but how to use RSS efficiently.

Maybe this is more ammunition for people who think that RSS is dead.

Since its early days, Tumblr has offered a useful import feed feature to help you bring content from other sites – like Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Blogger, etc. – into your main Tumblr blog. Technically, you could import content from just about any external site into Tumblr as long as there was an RSS feed available.

Unfortunately, as @Shripriya first noticed, Tumblr has quietly dropped support for importing RSS feeds into their system. Tumblr’s support site still has a page on how to use Import feed but the feature itself has been removed, thus denying you the ability to use Tumblr has a lifestreaming service.

Mas malas noticias. Aunque el potencial para el abuso era grande, esta funcionalidad siempre me agradó de Tumblr.

When we talk about RSS, we’re talking about one of several things:

1. The syndication format called RSS. Sometimes people also mean Atom when talking about RSS.

2. RSS as hot topic of conversation.

3. RSS as plumbing.

4. The feed-ification of the web.

5. RSS readers, such as NetNewsWire, Google Reader, FeedDemon, and so on.

People sometimes say that “RSS is dead,” that it lost to Twitter and Facebook. They don’t always specify what they’re talking about, so I’ll look at each meaning of “RSS” and figure out which ones are dead.

Una excelente aclaración acerca de una de las confusiones mas grandes y frecuentes en el rubro técnico.

It appears that Facebook listened though, as there is now a "Subscribe via RSS" link on Facebook Pages, and the source now links to an atom feed for clients that want to auto-discover the feeds. You can see it by looking down at the bottom left on any Page now.

There is a glimmer of hope with this move by Facebook. Of course RSS isn't dead, but my worry is that as we see Twitter and others slowly removing remnants of the protocol one bit at a time, these open standards may be swallowed up in favor of more proprietary APIs and formats. I'm really proud of Facebook taking a lead here in open standards adoption as they have done in the past - let's hope they continue to do so in the future.

Facebook reincorporó los feeds RSS a sus páginas, si bien no a los perfiles, lo cual no es necesariamente un problema. Twitter sin embargo no ha modificado su postura en absoluto

My hope is that both of these sites overlooked keeping RSS subscription in place as they upgraded their interfaces. But seeing as I'm the only one who noticed, I have a feeling they have little reason to re-add the open protocol back into their interface. Personally, I think it's a shame, as it makes it so only developers like myself can code anything to extract that data - the average user has no way of pulling that data out of Twitter or Facebook.

It seems in 2011 and the era of Facebook and Twitter we've completely lost any care for open standards. Maybe it's not just RSS that is dying - it's the entire premise of open standards that is dying, and I think that's really sad, and really bad for not just developers, but users in general.

El título se puede prestar a malentendidos, pero el hecho es importante. Twitter y Facebook quitaron los feeds RSS de páginas y perfiles, pero hay que hacer notar que la historia no acabó aqui, como el siguiente post explica.