This means that NewsGator can now offer a more focused and personalized (Customizavle) RSS reading. In other words it can enhance the punters RSS reading experience. Give it more value.

This seems to be the other twin of how to promote RSS. (i) Others offer a service to simplify RSS feeds and (ii) others offer a service to enhance RSS feeds.

This is not a bad development at all and this because it aims to satisfy two potential camps of information users: (i)Those who want to keep it simple and (ii) those who want to have enhanced value service.

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1. Create notes, take snapshots, attach existing photos to notes, and record audio on iPhone and allow it to be sent to the Evernote service without the use of emails.

2. It also gives you one-click access to your Evernote Web account for full-featured searching, even by tags and attributes.

Check more details here.

Other updates about the Evernote include the following:

- Evernote for Windows has a revamped note view

- Evernote has eleased updates to all major clients, with tons of bug fixes and improvements

- Evernote now has a Facebook fan page.

- Evernote now has 175,000 users.

All in all, this translates to better service. Nice work Evernote!

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Do not get me wrong. I really like Plurk and this because: (i) It keeps you updated on what your friend does or is thinking about; (ii) It keeps you connected; (iii)Its conversation on tap. Each plurk that is a potential conversation.

And from a casual observer it is interesting to see how the conversation progresses. Maybe that is why it is addictive.

The fatal attraction of the dancing Banana.

But that is another story.

What is frustrating about Plurk at the moment is that (I)its alert system is not functioning properly. You get alerted whenever somebody sends a friendship or fan request but not when a friend posts. (II) It might also help if you can view Plurk via the clique function as well.

Anyway those were some suggestion on how to improve Plurk.

Also for those who are addicted Plurk it might be prudent to read this here: Safe Plurking.

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Acquisition is an interesting word. Often we hear mergers and acquisition. But when one hears the word acquisition it has very different meaning. Merger means the joining of two or more companies while acquisition means the purchase of one company by another.

Nothing negative really. It just implies the direction the two companies are going to take. And
Mobispine, which now has 300,000 plus active mobile users per month, will make use of NewsAlloy to drive momentum to reach its goal of reaching 10 million users.

And they do this by providing improved and easy-to-use service.

Mobispine is available as a free download for Internet-enabled mobile phone.

Other features or services offered by Mobispine include but no limited to the following:

- View Web content

- Save datatime,

- The unique feed search function makes it easy to search the feeds.

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Call it a sight for sore eyes. This is a desktop reader Benny Hill would have loved. The videos to be shown involves Hazell in different outfits, writing and doing magic tricks on the desktop.

The widget was developed by the in-house development team of the newspaper with the viral marketing agency Glue. The widget was developed using Adobe Air - ” a technology that allows developers to build desktop applications that work across a range of computer operating systems.[Source]

This is probably one of the more interesting RSS reeaders to be developed so far.

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The Financial Costs:

Reading feeds from a cellphone can be done two ways accessing the Internet by Wifi or accessing the Internet by 3G. Both seem fairly reliable. Although the WiFi option is most of the time free and accessing by 3G will cost you money.

Ease of Use:

So far it was easy to set-up a feed into the phone’s feed reader. Similar to what you do when accessing through a computer one just has to subscribe. Two seconds and you are in.

Readability:
The posts that can be read are not full text. And is not as information heavy as its Interenet counterpart. It is basically just the post.

Initial Observations
Readings RSS feeds from the cellphone is practical, easy but at the moment seems to its limitations. Such limitations seem to include:

1. No full text
2. Not all data are included
3. Seems to be practical for only a few feeds.

Its not going to be your main feed reader. However, It seems to be useful as your carry-anywhere RSS reader and Internet device. And its for free if you can access WiFi. And can be used anywhere and anytime as long as there is power in the battery and you have WiFi or 3G connection.

More in a couple of days.

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(i) PostRank.com website

PostRank is now a service independent from AideRSS. WHat this means is that a developler can integrate or use PostRank in an application.

(ii) Thematic PostRank™

This gives the user or developer to arbitrarily rank a set of online articles. It does not have to come from the same feed source

(iii) Google Reader Extension with Thematic PostRank

Thematic PostRank can now be used in Google Reader.

(iv) New APIs and more data sources

More powerful APIs. This means a more faster and caching delay free service. Also it seems that the widh and breadth of the service has been expanded with new sources.

More tools for us infophiles both users and producers.

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But what will Nokia do with it?

Nokia plans make available for free the computer code of the Symbian and its code behind the S60, Nokia’s user interface for smartphones through a foundation called the - Symbian Foundation.

Will this be the start of a war on who will dominate the mobile Internet?

There are thoes who believe that because there will no longer be royalty paid this will bring down the cost of phones.

Hmm … hopefully this will increase ease of use in terms of getting and syndicating information for the mobile Internet.

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And this is according to a post, Rojo RSS Reader Plans a “Life Change”, by Eric Griffith at AppScout this seems to be case.

The online RSS Reader will cease to be and will be reborn. But it will come back with a new name, a new look and a new set of goals and objectives.

Rojo described itself as “the best free RSS and Atom feed reader,” is owned by Six Apart - ex owners of Live Journal and developers/makers of Movable Type and Type Pad.

What new form Rojo will take after going to the fire? Let us wait and see.

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