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Will Twitter be the death of RSS feeds?

It seems to me that more and more businesses now have corporate twitter accounts and given that most blog publishing platforms now have Twitter integrations, this has become the channel of choice to follow business news updates rather than RSS. The below Google Trends search term data doesn't prove that but at least supports the theory to some extend. Your thoughts?

http://www.google.com/trends?q=twitter%2C+rss&ctab=0&geo=au&geor=all&date=all&sort=0

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Hajnali öröm - megjött a domain

A tegnapi nap folyamán megérkezett a kisti.hu domain név, minden beállítva, noha az MX rekordot még nem ellenőriztem. Mostantól tehát ez az új cím, az RSS feliratkozók semmit nem vesznek észre, milyen jó dolguk van!

A kuka.kisti.hu címen a (tumblr) szemetesem érhető el, oda küldök minden olyan tartalmat előzetes rostálás nélkül, amivel poszt keretein belül nem szeretnék foglalkozni, viszont valami miatt mégis tetszett, megfogott, stb.

A holnapi nap folyamán elregélem, hogy hogyan is használom én a web2 termékeit, hogyan fér meg egymás mellett a blog, a Tumblr, a Posterous, a Twitter, a Lastfm, a Youtube, a Flickr, Reader, ..., ezek közül miket használok és milyen koncepció szerint. Számomra is fontos lesz összegezni ezeket a tapasztalatokat, meg kell fogalmazni az alapelveket. Stay tuned.

Egy kis móka a végére tegnapról:

Ezen a képen ma többször is hangosan felnevettem, a tegnapi DVSC-Liverpool meccs egyik jelenete van megmagyarázva. Kabaré, komolyan mondom. KA-BA-RÉ.

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I Can Now Finally Try Feedly // Chrome Version Launched

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Yahoo! Pipes for Twitter's Reading List

I've managed to create a very nice and probably useful Yahoo! Pipe to manage my Twitter friend's feed as a reading list.

As you know, nowadays it's a common practice to post interesting links to your Twitter feed. Even I personally hooked up my Google Reader with the help of Twitterfeed to post articles that I want to share directly to my feed on Twitter. Works well, except that I miss a lot of links. I can't read my friends feed all day long (and I'm following only a hundred or so people). So whenever I read the feed (very occasionally) I can hit the shared links of only that period of time. I don't browse history or anything like that.

However, I'd probably like to read all the links that they advice to visit. I'm pretty picky about whom I'm following. You can call it social news. Where your social circle is doing the job on filtering the news for you. And you end up with a list of "pre-approved" things that you're safe to go with, without high risk of wasting your time.

Anyways so I run into this venture and built a quick hack for myself.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/white/twitterreading

I call it Twitter Reading List. You put your name & password in there (yeah, I can be a asshole and copy your data, so take a look at the source first if you're afraid of it :), and you will get a RSS feed of all posts from your Twitter friends, whom you follow and who posted something interesting. This pipe will fetch a title of it for you, as well as link it to direct link to whatever your friend wants you to read.

Well, yeah, on the negative side, I don't like the idea of sending my password plain-text, but... whatever. One more thing, it looks like it's limited to some specific number of posts there. It's probably possible to overcome, I don't know.

So fire it up, link to your Google Reader or any other favorite news reader and have fun!

P.S. IT IS buggy. It's a dirty hack and I need to fix the regexp for URLs among many other things, but it works.

P.P.S. Yahoo! Pipes rock. This is definitely a great way to easily sketch up a tool and use it right away. Try it yourself.

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How To Get Your Music Reviewed On Twitter

Most artists now realise that Twitter is a simply brilliant way of connecting with people.  But Twitter can also be a great tool for getting your music reviewed...first you need to understand...

Twitter Basics (No harm in refreshing them!)

If you are new to twitter then there’s oodles of good stuff on Bob Bakers site Twitter Music Promotion and Marketing Guide that you really should take your socks off and paddle in.

As a rule, if you aren’t currently engaging in conversations with your fans, piers and friends on twitter, regularly using @username replies, starting conversations with stimulating questions, generally being interesting about both life and work, and getting fans involved in your creative process, then you need to check your bad twittering self.

If you are more than occasionally using twitter to pedal your wears, then please stop reading this immediately and go self flagellate vigorously with a large wet fish, I can recommend the Sarcastic Fringehead.

Once the above comes naturally (the twittering, not the flagellation) then its tempting to have a little fun with twitter as a promotional tool. From crowd sourcing house gig tours across the USA, to making $19,000 in 10 hours, the limits of what you can achieve with a stream of 140 chars is only limited by your acid addled imagination. Lets look at one promotional idea that will give you and your fans a nice warm spine tingle, and avoid any that could potentially trigger flash backs. What was Badly Drawn Boy thinking?

Album Reviews on Twitter

The old record industry knew a thing or two about promotion. Or they knew people who for a wodge of your cash would provide it. As an independent artist, promotion, and particularly getting your music reviewed can be tough. Ill save my soul destroying experiences with blogger outreach for another day.

By far the easiest people to approach to review your music are the people you already know, and if you are using twitter effectively, that’s not just your fans. In the socially networked world the NME no longer has dominion over opinion. Everyone you know online has an audience (sometimes larger than you realise), and more than ever people are able and willing to proffer their opinions forth onto the web.

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The socially enlightened of your contacts will be eager to offer you a review, Steve Lawson suggests that “the single most powerful currency online is gratitude”. People want to talk about you, to share their gratitude with others; you just need to give them the reason, then opportunity to do so.

Oh don’t we just love to hear people’s opinions. Well, yes actually. If like me you can’t resist a glance over customer reviews on amazon.com, imdb.com or tripadvisor.com you are not alone, “78% of global consumers say they trust and believe other people's recommendations for products and services - more than any other medium” (Source). (Tip: always check the nationality of any travel reviewer; our friends from across the pond have some interesting idea’s of what constitutes an awesome vacation!).

The smart folk from Culture Jam know all of this. They are the brains behind this extremely clever and perfectly formed twitter album review page for Moby’s last album, Wait For Me. Take a look: http://twitter.moby.com/

The concept is simple; Listen to the album, tweet your review, the best tweet each month wins a prize.  

What’s clever about it?

The page is clean, clear and simple. Everything is on one page, and its so easy to use even you’re Nan could do it. (and if Moby really is as old as Eminem suggests, she may well be a fan.)

But its the science behind the page that is rather clever. It provides people with the opportunity to easily share their gratitude (and supreme taste in music) virally via their twitter network, whilst simultaneously tweaking their creative writing and journalistic instincts. Then the page feeds that good stuff straight back to the next listener. Feedback we know the listener trusts. Right next to the handy “buy now” buttons.

As well as that, all this information gives the music the one thing all music needs: context. Ill be writing more about giving your music context soon, but essentially, we feel quite different about music given to us by a loved one on a mix tape than a song we hear in a corporate lift. This page oozes context, context which the listener soaks up as they sit and listen, drink cough medicine and try and summons the spirit of Lester Bangs into 140 characters.

How do I make a page like this?

Thankfully, the technology is fairly simple too. Your techie friend could easily replicate this page using tools which are freely available and it would be reusable for everything you release.

The album is streamed using the fabulous Soundcloud player. As well as the option to play and buy, Soundcloud enables the listener to add comments chronologically at any point in the track. This is the first option the listener has to review the music and also to get context back, as you can see below, this can be quite effective.

Soundcloud also enables to give your music away for free download, although Moby didn’t enable this, it is something you should consider.

There are some simple instructions and a tweet this box which allows you tweet your review direct from the page. The tweet has a built in link back to the page, a hash tag for the album (#waitforme), and the @thelittleidiot link to Moby’s twitter account so he can reply directly. You could achieve something similar by using the nifty Twittlink tool, or a whole host of other tools available including the twitter API itself.

Down the right there is a list of latest reviews which again provide great context and affirmation for the listener (See below). This can be achieved simply by using an RSS feed of the twitter search results for the #waitforme hash tag. There is an official Twitter Search Widget which you can use to do this.

I have tested the feed and it doesnt look like Moby has done a Microsoft and censor the stream.

At the bottom of the page there is a list of places you can buy the album from. And there is quite a list. If you arent already selling your music online start by setting up a page on the fabulous Bandcamp and link to that. There is evidence to suggest that the more places you sell your music from, the more money you make.  And don’t forget to link to all your other online presences from this page. (Ha ha Culture Jam, got you there, you forgot this one, not so clever after all hey!)

Last but not least, the page displays this months winner. Great exposure for them, and something they will surely tell thier friends about, and point them back to this page. There is lots of evidence that people love to see themselves online affiliated with things they enjoy.

If you can get a similar page setup for your next release, the long term winner could be you; remember twitter users spend more money on music than none twitter users.

I would love to hear about any other ideas for getting your music reviewed online?

If anyone makes a similar page I would love to hear about it.

For more ideas like this, follow me on Twitter.

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Newsstand 2.2 for iPhone is speeder, show only unread items and got new share menu. Better and Better software

       

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About 2.0 version
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Feeds Are Dead!

"Argh, jetzt kommt der mit seinem [place-all-non-social-web-gedöns-here] are dead-Kram wieder an." - Moment, bevor ihr auf mich einprügelt, denkt mal scharf nach, ob es euch nicht vielleicht auch so geht, wie dem Herrn Scoble und mir. Wir zwei haben vielleicht nicht viel gemeinsam - eines verbindet uns jedoch: Google Reader und Feeds waren gestern, den Input digitaler Art beziehen wir neuerdings ausschließlich via Twitter. Richtig, der Dienst hat schon die Blogosphäre gekillt, da kommt es auf die übrig gebliebenen RSS-Feeds nun auch nicht an.

Ernsthaft - all das, was ich im Feedreader vorfinde, ob es nun NetNewsWire oder Google Reader ist, habe ich bereits vorher in meiner Timeline auf Twitter lesen können. Schließlich haut fast jeder Blogger und Newsdienst Benachrichtigungen über neue Postings auch auf Twitter raus. Und seit der Einführung der Listen kann ich ähnlich Gruppierungen und Filter anlegen, wie ich es im Feedreader auch getan habe.

Habt ihr mal darüber nachgedacht, dem Feedreader aus ähnlichen Gründen Lebewohl zu sagen?

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RSS Feed to Posterous - Posterous als RSS-Aggregator

FeedBurner RSS-Feed Artikel per Email bei Posterous veröffentlichen

Den RSS Feed meiner Blogs und einiger meiner Social Media Seiten lasse ich wg. diverser Vorteile seit eh und je über FeedBurner laufen. Eine der hübschen Möglichkeiten von FeedBurner ist die Möglichkeit einen RSS-Feed als Email-Newsletter anzubieten. Was liegt näher, als die bei Posterous vorbei kommenden Leser mit einem automatischen Artikel zu informieren, wenn es auf der Hauptseite einen neuen Artikel gibt?

Nachfolgend die fünf recht einfachen Schritte, wie ich den RSS-Feed von Sankt-Georg.Info in Zusammenarbeit mit FeedBurner kürze, mit dem berechtigten Absender versehe und hier im Posterousblog eine kurze Nachricht einstelle.

Wie nutzte ich Posterous als RSS-Nachrichtensammler

1. In FeedBurner habe ich den von Sankt-Georg.Info kommenden Originalfeed erneut eingebunden, eine von FeedBurner automatisch gekürzte Fassung erstellt und mit einem neuen Titel je Artikel versehen.
2. Das FeedBurner Email-Modul (Publicize/Email Subscriptions) mit einer hier bei Posterous zugelassenem Emailadresse als Absender aktiviert.
3. Die Emailadresse dieses Blogs als Abonnent registriert. (Detail: Mit posterous@ statt post@ stelle ich sicher, dass die Artikel nur hier erscheinen und nicht auf allen von Posterous angebotenen Social Media Kanälen.) Das Registrieren der gewünschten Emailadresse geht mit dem http:-Link aus dem Subscription Link Code im FeedBurner Email-Modul, den man einfach kopiert und im Browser aufruft (Beispiel).
4. Die Bestätigungsmail (opt-in) wurde als positives Feedback praktischerweise direkt als Blogartikel gepostet (s.u. 'Original message')
5. Nach Klicken des Bestätigungslinks (double opt-in) sollte dieses Posterousblog in Zukunft einmal am Tag mit einer Übersicht der neuen Artikel auf Sankt-Georg.Info gefüttert werden.

Das Löschen des Abonnements kann man hier bei Posterous z.B. über die Entfernung der entsprechenden Contributor-Emailadresse machen, falls man eine eigene Emailadresse für diesen Zweck verwendet, aber deutlich eleganter und technisch sinnvoller ist das Löschen der verwendeten Emailadresse bei FeedBurner. Abonnenten löscht man über den etwas versteckten, weil eingeklappten Unter-Unter-Punkt View Subscriber Details im Unterpunkt Subscription Management.

Viel Spaß mit Posterous als RSS-Aggregator!

Fragen, Anregungen, etc. gerne als Kommentar.

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