Everything And Nothing

Going Mobile

Gary Price, on the excellent Search Engine Watch blog, gives us his Top 15 list of mobile feeds:

• Bloglines Mobile
• Rovenet Flight Checker
  Unlike other mobile web flight checkers, this service gives all sorts of data like altitude, air speed, direction etc. Just like what you would find from many web-based services. Data direct from FAA computers
• Skweezer.net
  Compresses and reformats web content for a better looking result (most of the time).
• National Weather Service for Wireless Browsers
• ConvertIt.com
  Time, distance, calculators, etc.
• Wireless TV Guide
• FAA Wireless for Airport Delays
• Speaking of travelling, the mobile version of SeatGuru.com
• Dictionary.com
• Basic Business Info via Mobile Version of Hoover's
• The mobile version of SeatGuru.com
  It can help many places including when you get to the gate and they've changed your seat.
• Wireless TVGuide
• Dictionary.com
• Basic Business Info via Mobile Version of Hoover's
• Mobile Searchable Interface to PubMed*

* The National Library of Medicine makes a number of mobile info tools available.

RSS + Video Search = BlinkxTV SmartFeed

Word of new service from BlinkxTV that was just released named SmartFeed.

Beginning today, you can create an RSS feed (aka SmartFeed) for any BlinkxTV keyword search.

So, as soon as a word or phrase is mentioned in a radio broadcast or television program from one or more of the 30-plus partners that Blinkx offers access to, you'll be notified via RSS. Then, you can click from the feed and listen or view those exact words being spoken. In most cases, Blinkx uses voice recognition technology to create searchable transcripts. (via SearchEngineWatch)

RSS Updates Moving Beyond Pings

For Webloggers, sending notifications of new postings are like the street-corner sellers yelling the hot headline for metropolitan newspapers. With the rapid growth of bloggers and Weblog communities, it's becoming increasingly hard to be heard.

But adjustments to a piece of basic RSS plumbing that is responsible for keeping readers informed of feed updates may ease the pain.

Sun Herald adds RSS feeds

The Sun Herald, the Mississippi Gulf Coast's newspaper, has added RSS feeds to its Web site. (And they even have one for garage sales - I'm impressed!)

Yahoo!'s RSS feeds

All of Yahoo!'s RSS feeds in one location (via SearchEngineWatch)

Yahoo! Shoping adds RSS feeds

Yahoo! Shopping has added many RSS feeds for polar products (TV, DVD, etc.) and new releases in music and movies. (via Micropersuasion)