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RSS Teasers FAIL To Please
Jul 4th
Nobody likes a tease, right? OK, maybe sometimes and for short periods of time, sure, everyone likes a good tease. Maybe it can be attributed to spicing up ones life. But if you think for a second you can get away with teasing RSS subscribers back to an HTML-laden website, get ready for them never reading your content again.
For those who rely heavily on picking up web content through RSS [like me], there’s little time for websites anymore. My first thought when I see a teaser feed is — feel lucky if that teaser drives even one person back to the main site — and better luck yet if you can ever track and prove that it actually does.
RSS is Not Dead Yet and Twitter is Not Our Savior
May 6th
As I was surfing through Google Reader in preparation of writing a post on a completely unrelated subject I happened across this craptastic piece of editorial bologna by Steve Gillmor at TechCrunchIT on the ostensible death of RSS. In his infinite wisdom Gillmor claims to have completely given up on his RSS reader in favor of Twitter. Whatever it is Steve is smoking it sure must be some good stuff because his barely coherent rant against RSS makes no sense at all.
Byline, Native iPhone RSS Reader, Reviewed and Dissected
Apr 29th
If you are like most of us Miso Soupheads then chances are you double as both a Google and Apple aficionado and are all over Google Reader on your iPhone. While the Google Reader web interface is pretty snazzy in Mobile Safari it does not compare to accessing web-based services from within a native iPhone app. This is where Byline by Phantom Fish comes in to play – it’s a native iPhone RSS reader designed to synchronize with Google Reader – and it is just what the doctor ordered!
Blogs Worth Reading on a Daily Basis – Part 3
Mar 31st
In our second installment of our “blogs worth reading” series we introduced you to a number of Japan, Security, Technology and Startup blogs we thoroughly enjoy reading on a daily basis. Coupled with our first installment highlighting Apple, Design, Electronics and Entertainment blogs, we have introduced you to 24 sites we feel are worthy of your time. In our final installment we will be covering the catch-all Blogroll category as well as blogs from some of our real-life friends. Once again, hang tight and allow the us Miso lovers to once again point you and your browser to a few excellent blogs.
Blogs Worth Reading on a Daily Basis – Part 2
Mar 28th
In our first installment yesterday we introduced you to our ten favorite Apple, Design, Electronics and Entertainment blogs. In Part 2 of our blogs worth reading on a daily basis series, we offer our thoughts and analysis of blogs in the Japanese, Security, Technology and Startup categories, hopefully exposing you to a blog or two you were not previously familiar with. Sit back and allow the TechMiso crew to once again point you and your browser to a number of excellent blogs we find quite beneficial.
Blogs Worth Reading on a Daily Basis – Part 1
Mar 27th
There are thousands of web sites available for your reading pleasure. Each one of those sites are competing for a slight chunk of your time each day, including our beloved TechMiso. Many of us simply do not have the time to thoroughly examine the countless blogs available for evaluation, so how do we determine which RSS feeds are worth reading on a daily basis? Simple – allow the TechMiso crew to point you towards a number of high quality sites we consider extremely valuable and definitely worth your time each day.
Web-Based Feed Reader or Desktop Feed Reader?
Mar 10th
The number of feed readers available for consumption is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of the number of grains of sand on the beautiful long beaches of Bali – innumerable. Although there are countless client options, there is one specific feed reading choice that is quite limited – the option to read feeds using a web-based service or through a desktop feed reading application.
Is FriendFeed In Need Of Dumbing Down?
Feb 11th
FriendFeed has been the talk of the town ever since it’s launch, mostly thanks to the founders’ pedigree but also due to the wonderful service FriendFeed turned out to be. After all, the same team who created the simple yet highly effective FriendFeed was also responsible for producing arguably one of the best web-based email services ever created – Gmail.
FriendFeed has found a number of high profile people using the service rather consistently since inception, but even more so in the aftermath of the speed problems Twitter faced mid to late last year. A number of early adopters gravitated to FriendFeed and decided to make the service their second home.
But the early adopter crowd is generally comprised of the uber geeks who will try any service once or twice. It appears FriendFeed is exactly what the geek squad ordered, although the service is seemingly finding it more difficult to attract the less savvy mainstream audience. Why might that be?
RSS – Your World Consolidated
Feb 1st
TechMiso has been trucking along solid for a month now since its launch January 1st, 2009. Along with a modest bump in traffic, we’re seeing solid readership and thoughtful commentary from the folks who have joined us so far.
The foreseeable future promises no let up on tech talk either. With access to mind blowing numbers of news outlets each day, the difficult [but fun] assignment of choosing topics grows exponentially. Here enters RSS-
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