feedburner.com – Chicago, IL 2004 / 2007 Google acquired
This is a great company that is worth mentioning…
FeedBurner is a feed management service launched in February 2004 by co-founders Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski and Matt Strobe.
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Their Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.
It offers advertising services for blogs and podcasts also.
What is RSS? RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site’s email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names like Yahoo News.
What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed?
Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and use.
A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows – integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of web-based feed readers available. My Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google Reader are popular web-based feed readers.
Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.
The Internet Explore browser and Firefox browser allow you to subscribe to an RSS feed in the browser.
In the old days, radio and TV shows were broadcast at specific times and if you weren’t there on time, you missed it. Thanks to podcasting, show times don’t matter. When a new show is created, podcasting gives you a way to capture it and take it with you to watch or listen to later – usually for free. It makes shows personal and available on demand – That’s what makes it different from broadcasting.
A podcast is an audio or video recording, produced on a computer. Usually a person or company produces a series of these recordings on a regular basis. You can “subscribe” to a podcast, like you would subscribe to a magazine, and receive the new recordings delivered right to your computer.
When you visit a Web site that has a podcast, you can click a button and subscribe to the podcast to receive future shows automatically. All you need is a free tool called a Podcatcher, like iTunes, that acts as a way to capture the shows. The shows become yours to listen to or watch as much as you want, where you want and when you want for as many times as you want.
Diggnation is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories.
It is a weekly video podcast produced by Revision3, hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. Its main purpose is to discuss the top stories from Digg, the social bookmarking website developed by Rose and others. The format of the show usually involves Rose and Albrecht reviewing one or more brands of beer at the opening of the show, of which they will consume throughout the show, followed by them discussing various Digg stories from the previous week. Both audio and video versions of the podcast are available. It consistently ranks as one of the top podcast downloads available from the Apple iTunes Music Store.
Web 2.0: Who, What, Why, How 