Jul 26, 2006
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xFruits is other of those Web 2.0 Start ups that works not servin one service but various service at the same time in the way of a online ToolBox, in this case serving serveral services to work with Feeds.
Lets take a quick look to them:
1.-RSS Aggregator
This serves as a Feedigest kind of thing that will allow you to make a mix of upto to
3 Feed in one go.
The Further Review of this will go in a new post.
2.-RSS To Web
A RSS Landing page, only useful to those that are not in Feedbuner already (so, not many), but if you wanna have a look at one, take a look at
Bloggeratto xFruits Landing Page
3.-RSS To Mobile
A RSS Landing page for Mobile phones, that is more useful to the overall user, it serves for PDA, CellPhones and Old Smartphones.
So wel, you know what follows:
Bloggeratto Mobile xFruits Landing Page
4.-Post To RSS
A Mail To Feed service, well that is also promising considering this is another option that can be used to either to collaborations with other by e-mail or to play with it.
I will put the review of this in the Mail To Feed Services Post.
5.-RSS To PDF
Another service following a growing little niche, the Feed To PDF services and you can use it with ease, it is as good as the rest.
6.-RSS To Mail
Not Active yet, will update when it is usable
A Online ToolBox Service to compete with full blown Feed To mail services?, not really, it will only be useful for those that like the simple services.
7.-File To RSS
Not Active yet, will update when it is usable
My guess is that this will be a either a Podcast Enabled Feed or That rolled with a File Hosting solution.
I hope for the later.
8.-RSS Composer
Not Active yet, will update when it is usable
The big incognita of the services, the one that really makes me want it already.
Time will tell.
So, in the end Xfruits, is a Web 2.0 because it has social featured enabled for the user of it, and it has a map, tags and searchable profiles.
Here is mine:
xFruits Avatar Profile
The front of the service is that, the people that use the service, you search the people to take a look at how they are using the tools, and this usage can either be Public or Private. so it is worth of a visit and a try.
xFruits
Jul 25, 2006
I am testing this Dpoll thing, after doing a review of 10 different Poll Systems.
wich i will publish shortly.
wich i will publish shortly.
Jul 24, 2006
Well. it shows that it´s time for site upgrades, and the update of today is Technorati renovating not only its Look, GUI and some minor new features but also adjusting its accuracy wich was way way needed for the past months.
I like the new look, and i hope they are rolling even more new fetures soon.
So take a look and if you don´t haven´t claimed your blog, what are you waiting for?
Blogger is supported and completely automatic.
Technorati
Jul 22, 2006
Yes, I am aware that the Native Search is not working anywhere, this has something to do with Google Blogsearch, so I can only hope this means they are upgrading something.
We will have to wait until Monday to see if this is cleared out or change the search to Yahoo!.
[Update]: Blogsearch is back up, hence the search is all up and run fine!. Go ahead, give it a go! :) - Aditya
We will have to wait until Monday to see if this is cleared out or change the search to Yahoo!.
[Update]: Blogsearch is back up, hence the search is all up and run fine!. Go ahead, give it a go! :) - Aditya
Jul 21, 2006
I wrote about Yutter back in my review of Feed To Mail Services to use in Blogger where it came up as the best of the services i reviewed.
Well, the bet is even higher now, sure Feedblitz has improved a little but it is really nothing compared at the improvement of Yutter considering, it was already the best service of its kind.
So, yes Yutter is a service that will take your feed and then cast it into a e-mail syndicated service so people can subscribe to your blog and that the post come to their mails.
Since it started Yutter has gone from 0 to over 2000 users, something i find actually depressing considering how good it is.
And here is what they can offer to you that no one else can:
1.-Branding.
You can put your logo of your blog and online publication as the header of the e-mail and the subscription form your visitors are going to use.
2.-Custom E-mail Schedule
This is a brilliant feature that will help you to control how you drive your post to the one who read you, this option lets yu program and what time of the day or how often you are going to send e-mails with your posts.
I have set it at once daily, becuase that way the subscriber only recives one E-mail ,no matter if you did 1 or 10 posts that day.
And becuase, it gives you a window of time in case something happens and you edit the post or change part of it. Yutter will take the post from the feed at the time you have scheduled it to do so, meaning that the edit/change will reach your readers without re-sending the post..
3.-Complete Reader Control
The controls in yutter to let you manage subscribers are top notch, you can validate the address of a subcriber so they can recive your posts right away, you can export the list in a txt. file, you can erase/pause/activate reader whenever you want.
4.-Ease Of Use.
Yutter has the easiest and better looking interfase of the Feed To Mail crowd, you can set up a account and have it running in 5 minutes or less.
5.-Features.
Yutter has the best set of features for a free service, they have features other charge for and one of the best way of managing stats in a service like this:
Real time.
If you still need more to make your mind take this comparation chart:
And that is it. please go and compare so you can know why
"Yutter Just Rock Da House"
Yutter
Well, the bet is even higher now, sure Feedblitz has improved a little but it is really nothing compared at the improvement of Yutter considering, it was already the best service of its kind.
So, yes Yutter is a service that will take your feed and then cast it into a e-mail syndicated service so people can subscribe to your blog and that the post come to their mails.
Since it started Yutter has gone from 0 to over 2000 users, something i find actually depressing considering how good it is.
And here is what they can offer to you that no one else can:
1.-Branding.
You can put your logo of your blog and online publication as the header of the e-mail and the subscription form your visitors are going to use.
2.-Custom E-mail Schedule
This is a brilliant feature that will help you to control how you drive your post to the one who read you, this option lets yu program and what time of the day or how often you are going to send e-mails with your posts.
I have set it at once daily, becuase that way the subscriber only recives one E-mail ,no matter if you did 1 or 10 posts that day.
And becuase, it gives you a window of time in case something happens and you edit the post or change part of it. Yutter will take the post from the feed at the time you have scheduled it to do so, meaning that the edit/change will reach your readers without re-sending the post..
3.-Complete Reader Control
The controls in yutter to let you manage subscribers are top notch, you can validate the address of a subcriber so they can recive your posts right away, you can export the list in a txt. file, you can erase/pause/activate reader whenever you want.
4.-Ease Of Use.
Yutter has the easiest and better looking interfase of the Feed To Mail crowd, you can set up a account and have it running in 5 minutes or less.
5.-Features.
Yutter has the best set of features for a free service, they have features other charge for and one of the best way of managing stats in a service like this:
Real time.
If you still need more to make your mind take this comparation chart:
And that is it. please go and compare so you can know why
"Yutter Just Rock Da House"
Yutter
I have 3 very simple rules to promote something, anything. be it a diary product, a web app, and hell, even people or ideas.
1.-I Must Really Like It
2.-It Must Be Actually Good
3.-Do/Did I Use/Consume/Dig It?
Ok, so, right now, if you like something, most of the time you pass it along to others, sure, but i think that it is not enough just to like something, one must question if it is actually good besides your own opinion of it, if it is worthwhile to others spend the time, or have the experience of what you are recommending.
Another thing is that opinions can change all the time, time pass, etc.
So, i am used to think forward before actually recommending something.
That is the key difference in the apreciation of things.
Going from the one that review something based on personal taste, overall validation and deep questioning of it.
Well, i was just thinking about this since i have been doing Buzz posts lately.
And just to make clear that if i am recommending something is becuase i have passed those 3 rules on the matter.
1.-I Must Really Like It
2.-It Must Be Actually Good
3.-Do/Did I Use/Consume/Dig It?
Ok, so, right now, if you like something, most of the time you pass it along to others, sure, but i think that it is not enough just to like something, one must question if it is actually good besides your own opinion of it, if it is worthwhile to others spend the time, or have the experience of what you are recommending.
Another thing is that opinions can change all the time, time pass, etc.
So, i am used to think forward before actually recommending something.
That is the key difference in the apreciation of things.
Going from the one that review something based on personal taste, overall validation and deep questioning of it.
Well, i was just thinking about this since i have been doing Buzz posts lately.
And just to make clear that if i am recommending something is becuase i have passed those 3 rules on the matter.
Jul 20, 2006
The recent Indian Blogger Blockage has finally been lifted according to the India Today
Something i find refreshing to know, is that according to some reports, the blockage was a mistake, a error, since they were actually wanting only to Block some Blogger blogs in a black list, that unfortunately now has been leaked to the internet, making those in the Black list to have more audience than ever before.
Oh, the sweet sweet irony!
So, welcome back India and welcome back also to Aditya that was affected by this:
Indian Blogs Blocked
I mean, can you just imagine the agony of not being able to enjoy Bloggeratto?...
It gives me the shivers just to think on something like that.
Something i find refreshing to know, is that according to some reports, the blockage was a mistake, a error, since they were actually wanting only to Block some Blogger blogs in a black list, that unfortunately now has been leaked to the internet, making those in the Black list to have more audience than ever before.
Oh, the sweet sweet irony!
So, welcome back India and welcome back also to Aditya that was affected by this:
Indian Blogs Blocked
I mean, can you just imagine the agony of not being able to enjoy Bloggeratto?...
It gives me the shivers just to think on something like that.
Got hack?, that sounds like a common question from a Blog Called Hackosphere , right?
Well, it is, that is the "slogan/motto" under the title of Ramani Arunachalam that made quite a noticiable splash on the Bleet starting almost at the same time as July started.
19 days have passed and there are now 3 hacks in Anniyalogam to the service of the Bloggerosphere if neeeded/wanted/liked:
1.- One Click Comment Notification
The One-Click is my favorite idea of Ramani´s Hacks, becuase not only that is a brilliant idea for a hack, it is something that should be in place as a feature in Blogger itself.
You put that hack up and if someone has left you a comment, now you as the author of the blog can notify him with the one-click button that you have left a reply to him.
This can only work and will only work with those who have a E-mail activated in their Blogger profile.
2.- Archive Browser
The Archive Browser, is a strange idea but it´s directed to low-broadband and dial-up user, since the hacks goes and gives you a reading page for that year worth of post on stripped down version, so it can be as lightweight as possible to load.
3.- Featured Post Of The Day
This has been a idea done in other platforms and to some extend in blogger but not exactly this way.
Featured Post, will give you a random post for your blog everyday serving to those blogs that don´t update daily and to those who want a little novelty in their blogs.
Other thing you can find is a Blogspot Viewer. coming from the Archive browser idea, Ramani decided to put a fast reader blogspot new post browser tht he called Freedom Viewer
You give the name of the blog and this will give you the latest post of that blog
If you decide to give it a try you can find it here:
Freedom Viewer
And well, that is it. now lets wait what more can happen next.
Well, it is, that is the "slogan/motto" under the title of Ramani Arunachalam that made quite a noticiable splash on the Bleet starting almost at the same time as July started.
19 days have passed and there are now 3 hacks in Anniyalogam to the service of the Bloggerosphere if neeeded/wanted/liked:
1.- One Click Comment Notification
The One-Click is my favorite idea of Ramani´s Hacks, becuase not only that is a brilliant idea for a hack, it is something that should be in place as a feature in Blogger itself.
You put that hack up and if someone has left you a comment, now you as the author of the blog can notify him with the one-click button that you have left a reply to him.
This can only work and will only work with those who have a E-mail activated in their Blogger profile.
2.- Archive Browser
The Archive Browser, is a strange idea but it´s directed to low-broadband and dial-up user, since the hacks goes and gives you a reading page for that year worth of post on stripped down version, so it can be as lightweight as possible to load.
3.- Featured Post Of The Day
This has been a idea done in other platforms and to some extend in blogger but not exactly this way.
Featured Post, will give you a random post for your blog everyday serving to those blogs that don´t update daily and to those who want a little novelty in their blogs.
Other thing you can find is a Blogspot Viewer. coming from the Archive browser idea, Ramani decided to put a fast reader blogspot new post browser tht he called Freedom Viewer
You give the name of the blog and this will give you the latest post of that blog
If you decide to give it a try you can find it here:
Freedom Viewer
And well, that is it. now lets wait what more can happen next.
If you like to be ahead of everyone, like to tinker with things and have a thing for Atom Feeds (or Feeds in general), now you can upgrade your Hosted Blogger blog to it.
AtomEnabled.org
will offer you the way to do so, and it is not only to upgrade from Atom 0.3 to 1.0, you can do another things with it.
So,go an have a look.
Many Bloggers by now will have an idea of what Cocomment, is and do.
And they have upgraded the system: Anouncement
However, if you had never heard of it yet, well, let me tell you what it is about:
Cocomment, tracks the Blogosphere and beyond for what you say in it. allowing you to have your own track line on it, meaning you will always know what you said and were you said it but, also letting you to know if someone else said or replied directly to what you said.
Confusing?.
Not at all, Cocomment is for Comments, what Blogger is for Push Button Publisihng, The easiest and the best way to be integrated into your thoughts, ideas and opinions at any given time giving you the choice to share them abroad.
There are others options out there like co.mments and commentor but they still not come close to Cocomment, so if you have never tried it, maybe is time you would now that it has been upgraded to stay ahead of the pack.
Check it out:
Cocomment
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