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There are a lot many of us who either hate or do not even know how to set up RSS feeds. A lot many people prefer content updates to be delivered right to their email addresses. A friend of mine satisfies most of his internet needs at the expense of his working hours but since he cannot access most of the news and blog pages in office. So, how do we solve his little problem? And yours, of course!

FeedZa is a social opinion site where people can read snippets of different RSS feeds based on various categories like lifestyle, entertainment, sports, technology, regional and many other sub-categories meant to specifically capture the users’ fancy. It also has a voting system where users can vote in favor of a RSS feed or against it.

 Another Guest Post by Raghav Soni – A Regular Contributor
 

Online content consumption habits are undergoing a radical transformation. Internet users are increasingly consuming their content on personal start pages, RSS readers, and widgets and are ensuring that websites do not get visited directly. This syndicated content revolution is being fueled by the widespread [...]

A Few Days Back I Wrote a ‘Brief Introduction to Blogging’. This is in Beta Stage and is supposed to go out to a couple of Media Students (freshers). I’ve tried not to make it too ‘technical’. Need to send this out soon so your additions would be invaluable.
 
If you’re one of those 35 [...]

It seems like many of the matrimonial sites are looking at stepping up the experience for their portals as far as the interface is concerned. Just had a look at 2 of the Indian Matrimonial Sites that are regarded as the market leaders with respect to Matrimony in India – Bharat Matrimony and Shaadi.
 
Both now claim to [...]

 
According to a Wikipedia entry following RSS Awareness Day, It is the 30th birthday of annoying SPAM. As spam turns 30 on May 2nd I would like to share with you how it all started. Way back in May 1978, Kurt Kleiner of NewScientistTech reminds us that it was Gary Thuerk, a marketer at [...]

As more and more content is added to web every second it becomes almost impossible for us to keep track of our favorite sites every now and then. Thanks to RSS our life has become much easier. As May 1st, the RSS Awareness Day is approaching I thought of dedicating a post to it.

The year 2008 is here and we have seen an enormous growth in the Social Networking scenario in India over the past one year. This ever growing market has changed the face of the Internet and its content today. Lets go through some of the highlights in India’s Social Network developments over the past year.
Orkut [...]

I saw my first blog about 4 years ago. A few of my friends had signed up on MSN Spaces and Blogger and decided that it was incredibly funny to put in anecdotes of their personal lives – be it their girlfriends, their drunken escapades or just some random football match, which they thought was [...]

You’re always on the go? Even though you’ve got an RSS feed reader set up on your PC – you are not able to find enough time in the day to go through all the content coming in?
Well perhaps its time to give your Mobile another reason to redeem its high cost?!
(Still an alien in [...]

In a move which can definitely destroy the usage of RSS readers (at least in India), Orkut have introduced an Edit Feeds feature.
What is a RSS feed?RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
To know more about RSS and know how to use it – be sure to check out our RSS Tutorial.
What is this feature about?
You [...]

Google is reportedly in the process of acquiring FeedBurner, a provider of RSS advertising and publishing services used by more than 4 lakh publishers.
So How Big is RSS Usage?
According to Pew Internet & American Life Project 5% (6 million) Americans online consume news and information through RSS or XML aggregators
Forrerster Research study claims that only [...]

At WAT Consult we’ve been conducting quite a few researches and studies revolving around the blogosphere. Our first report was about how many people in India really blog. The second one was about online blog related behaviour and the third, which will be released in a day or two is about – What exactly are [...]