RSS Etc.

LA Times Launches Its Dedicated RSS Newsreader - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 Aug 2006 07:10 PM PST

LA Times has been testing a dedicated RSS newsreader for a long time now...it started sometime early last year. Today, it has finally launched it...it is called Los Angeles Times…

BBCi’s New Approach To User Content: You Do It, We’ll Link To It - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Mon 28 Aug 2006 09:10 AM PST

What has the BBC learned about interactivity? That it’s very expensive, for starters. This week it launched a new local blogging initiative that cunningly bypasses the expense and legal complexities…

Winer Navigates RSS River Of News On Mobile Devices; Starts With NYT, BBC - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 21 Aug 2006 11:10 PM PST

It may not sound dramatic but the latest idea from entreprenuer/programmer Dave Winer bears some watching: a river of news for mobile devices that meshes multiple RSS feeds from one…

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Personalized Homepage/RSS Reader Netvibes Gets $15 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Aug 2006 10:10 AM PST

This is probably among the largest fundings in this category, and definitely in bubble territory: Netvibes, a personalized homepage/RSS reader service based out of Paris, has received $15 million in…

Fundings We Missed in Q2: NewsGator Receives $7 Million Fourth Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 12 Aug 2006 10:10 PM PST

NewsGator, the Denver, CO-based RSS newsreader tool company, received $7 million in fourth round funding in Q2, according to PwCMoneyTree Survey. The round was led by Masthead Venture Partners, and…

RSS Analytics Firm Feedburner Acq-Hires Blog Metrics Firm BlogBeat - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 16 Jul 2006 08:08 PM PST

RSs analytics and measurement firm Feeburner has made a small acquisition: it has acquired BlogBeat, a Raleigh-Durham-based provider of blog analytics. This means that Feedburner can provider not just RSS…

Blog Search Engine Feedster Gets New Funding; New President - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 13 Jul 2006 10:08 AM PST

Blog and RSS search engine Feedster, which has seen its fair share of management turmoil over the last year, has received a new round of funding. All prior institutional investors…

NYTimes’s Personalized Service “My Times” Debuts In Limited Beta - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 11 Jul 2006 03:08 PM PST

One of the linchpins of the new NYTimes.com design is slipping into place finally ... personalization feature My Times is now in limited beta for 5,000 registered NYTimes.com users who…

BloggerCon IV - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 23 Jun 2006 09:07 AM PST

BloggerCon IV is underway with sessions today and tomorrow. I couldn’t make the trip to CNET’s San Francisco HQ for the un-conference, so am making do with the next best…

Rich-Media RSS Aggregation Tool Moqvo Gets $1 Million Seed - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 13 Jun 2006 01:07 PM PST

Moqvo, an RSS aggregator aimed at the masses, with a lot of multimedia friendly tools built in, has raised about $1 million in seed funding, and has launched in beta.…

Weekend Reading: Hyperlinked Society - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 09 Jun 2006 08:07 PM PST

David Weinberger has been posting detailed notes from what sounds like a fascinating conference at Annenberg (Pennsylvania) for anyone with an interest in what makes the web different from other…

Industry Moves: Mark Fletcher Leaves Bloglines, Ask - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Jun 2006 02:07 PM PST

Time for serial entrepreneur Mark Fletcher to move on from Bloglines. He stuck around for more than a year after the February 2005 sale to Ask, which was in turn…

Microsoft To License Its IP To Skinkers & Vimio; Takes 10 Percent Stake In Former - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Jun 2006 10:07 PM PST

Microsoft has made its first two European investments as part of its intellectual-property licensing program called Microsoft IP Ventures that begun last May. -- The first one, in London-based Skinkers,…

IAC/I’s Ask, Bloglines Team Up On Blog/Feed Search - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 01 Jun 2006 08:07 PM PST

Finally, a visible sign of Ask’s post-acquisition impact on Bloglines—a much-needed high-end search engine for Bloglines and the addition of blog/feed search to Ask’s front page. Ask mixes its own…

RSS to E-Mail Firm FeedBlitz Gets Angel Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 30 May 2006 03:06 PM PST

FeedBlitz, a small Sudbury, MA-based startup which allows RSS feeds to come in e-mail as a newsletter, has received a “significant angel investment” from Tom Evslin, the former Chairman and…

Personalized Homepage From Pageflakes Gets Funding From Benchmark - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 30 May 2006 03:06 PM PST

German startup Pageflakes, which allows for personalized homepage (using Ajax etc...somewhat similar to Netvibes), has received its first round of funding, from Benchmark. It is competing with the likes of…

RSS Feeds CTRs Leveling Off, Says Study - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 18 May 2006 04:06 PM PST

I am going to take this with a grain of salt...while this might be the first wave of novelty-wearing-off, it is not necessarily such a bad thing. The experimentation on…

From Syndicate: Rocketboom May Charge; Edelman Wake-Up Call - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 17 May 2006 01:06 PM PST

Updated with new info from Rocketboom: No, we can’t make it to every conference so we’ve been following just-concluded Syndicate online. Josh Hallett did a great job with audio but…

AOL Music Now Opens To Developers; Increases Customizaton - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 10 May 2006 09:07 PM PST

In preview with plans for a broad summer release, the revamped AOL Music Now is joining the open API move at AOL by launching a web services site for custom…

RSS Newsreader Netvibes Gets Seed Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 22 Mar 2006 08:04 AM PST

Netvibes, an online/Ajax-based newsreader/personalized homepage (MyYahoo-ish, so to speak), has received seed funding from a group of high-profile investors: European venture fund Index Ventures; Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape; Pierre…

NewsGator Buys Mobile RSS & Podcasting Reader SmartFeed - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 14 Mar 2006 06:05 PM PST

NewsGator, among the only RSS companies doing a rollup of the other players in the industry, has now bought out SmartFeed, a small company with a Windows mobile RSS reader…

Adidas to Launch Branded RSS Newsreader For Football News - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 08 Mar 2006 05:05 PM PST

That’s all I know, from a one line description of a story in the latest NMA magazine in UK (it is behind a pay wall): Adidas is launching a branded…

Microsoft Buys Personal Content Organizer Onfolio - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 07 Mar 2006 05:04 PM PST

Microsoft has acquired Onfolio, a Cambridge, MA-based company, which offers a tool that lets people clip and save text content and links from the Web, as well as read RSS…

UK Desktop/RSS App Firm Skinkers Gets $3.5 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 09 Feb 2006 07:03 PM PST

Skinkers, the UK-based providers of branded RSS/desktop applications, has raised about $3.5 million in funding. The investment is the company’s first institutional funding since its 2002 launch and was received…

Feedburner To Get Additional Funding From Union Square Ventures - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 06 Feb 2006 02:03 PM PST

Updated: Feedburner, the RSS metrics and management company, is closing another round of funding, and should happen as soon as today. The funding in this round is from Union Square…