Archive for March, 2009

Emergency Response and RSS

March 31st, 2009

Centrelink will use GPS-enabled phones and RSS feeds to improve its response to disasters such as the recent Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods.br / The agency played a key role in the recent bushfires and floods as it distributed more than $100 million worth of government support payments to victims. br / But its resources were under extreme pressure as it responded to a spate of natural disasters across the country. It now plans to use mobile phones with Global Positioning System capability to track where staff are deployed and what skills are available in an area. br / br / This information will be fed back to a command centre in real time and displayed on a screen. br / br / The department will also use RSS feeds -- which allow a single message to be sent out to a group of subscribers -- to allocate resources to different areas to meet changing demand. br / br / a href=http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25265856-15319,00.html target=_blank complete article/a

Distill Digg RSS Feeds

March 30th, 2009

If you subscribe to a Digg RSS feed but find it cluttered with items that are not of interest take a look at Distill. a href=http://www.disstill.com/ target=_blank Distill/a filters out stories below the minimum diggs that you set.

The Best Blogging Tools

March 30th, 2009

Due to the extended dimensions that the blogging phenomenon has achieved, one can hardly image the
With all the vast amounts of information available on the web, it is becoming more and more difficult to sort through and find what you are looking for. RSS significantly lowers the signal-to-noise ratio. br / br / a href=http://www.rss-specifications.com/what-can-be-published-with-rss.htm target=_blank What Can be Published Using RSS Feeds/a

Top 10 Mom Bloggers

March 25th, 2009

Best Mommy bloggers can be found in the a href=http://getfreefiles.blogspot.com/2009/03/top-10-mom-bloggers-resources.html target=_blank Top 10 Mom Blogging Resources/a

Kindlefeeder

March 24th, 2009

a href=http://www.kindlefeeder.com/ target=_blank Kindlefeeder/a is a service for Amazon Kindle owners that lets you aggregate your favorite feeds and have them delivered to your Kindle in a convenient, easy-to-navigate format. You can also have your feeds delivered to your Kindle automatically on a schedule.Kindlefeeder offers a free basic and a paid unlimited service.

Tax Info Via RSS Feeds

March 23rd, 2009

a href=http://www.globetax.com/ target=_blank GlobeTax/a, a withholding tax recovery and market data specialists, have launched an RSS feature on their homepage. The feed will supply up-to-the minute news on tax withholding issues, tax rate and treaty changes, and DTC Important Notices.
Banking Business Review offers RSS feeds available for syndication. The a href=http://www.banking-business-review.com/static/banking_rss_feed target=_blank Business Review/a web sites offer several different RSS feeds and offer the Headline of the articlenbsp;nbsp;company, a brief description and links back to the relevant page on the Business Review site.
Actively a href=http://www.feedfordev.com target=_blank communicate with users from within your software using RSS Feeds/a! Free software allows you to communicate from within the software.

RSS Calendar

March 18th, 2009

a href=http://www.rsscalendar.com/ target=_blank RSSCalendar/a by Lookout Software is a web-based calendar and event software application for publishing online, interactive calendars of events. With RSSCalendar, you embed calendars with events into your website by passing in a few lines of JavaScript in your websites HTML