Via Micro Persuasion. 35 ways you can use RSS today.

This post at Micro Persuasion is a good starter list for seeing the innovative ways you can use RSS syndicated feeds in your everyday life. A lot of people don’t use or understand RSS feeds and so they really have no sense of what is possible with them. Think of RSS feeds as very portable information or content that you can subscribe to, much like the old stock exchange ticker tapes. The information is pushed to you as it is created. Rather then visiting a website for information, the content of that website is stripped of it’s design, packaged up in an XML type file and then delivered to you automatically as a subscriber. It keeps you up-to-date on all your favorite information and searches in real-time. Think of RSS as your very own personal team of newspaper reporters running around the Internet gathering all of the stories and news that you are interested in and reporting it back to you instantly.

Read the full list of 35 ways you can use RSS today.

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A new website advertising service has launched that is similar to Google Adsense for blogs. The company is called Text Link Ads and has two options for webmasters to make money. Website owners can sell ad space directly off their website or they can become an affiliate for promoting the Text Link Ad network and refer traffic back in to the program.

Although this is a fairly new service, it provides web publishers with an additional alternative to monetizing their website. For other options, you can check out Google Adsense or Chitika

The usage of the buzzword “Web 2.0″ has been slowly increasing over the past year and a half but what exactly does Web 2.0 mean? Tim O’Reilly takes on the challenge of laying out the next generation of the Internet and how Web 2.0 affects us all.

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum’s rush, the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to be an understanding of what separates one from the other.

Read the complete article at http://www.oreillynet.com.

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