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One of my favorite things on Twitter is when people post links to sites that they have created or have some interest in. Many of these happen when you aren’t looking or go by too fast to catch. One big example, since I live on the west coast, are the east coasters scanning news when [...]

If you can’t get to the Consumer Electronics Show this year you can follow all the posts about it via RSS. A while back I built a Yahoo! Pipe to combine RSS feeds from various sources based on tags. You can check it out here: Tag Monitor

The TechCrunch40 is this week in San Francisco. The TC40 is where forty of the hottest new startups from around the world will announce and demo their products over a two day period.
Not everyone can get there so I created an aggregator to monitor all the news and pictures coming from bloggers over the next [...]

A couple months ago Twitter took a habit of users and turned it into a feature. When people wanted to reply to someone else they would start their tweet something like “@yourtwitterusername I completely agree with you!”. Posts like that get grabbed by the system and put into your replies tab in twitter.
The [...]

I’ve created a new Yahoo Pipe that I call Tag Monitor. This Pipe will monitor Google Blogsearch, Technorati, del.icio.us, Ice Rocket, Sphere and Flickr for items taged with the word you enter. Its handy to create new feeds to follow events such as gnomedex07.
Tag Monitor
Technorati Tags: tagging, tags, gnomedex07

There are a few sites on the Internet that have been compiling books that are no longer in copyright. One of the oldest is Project Gutenberg. Basically you get to download full books in text format that you can read on your PC or handheld. A lot of the books are classics like Moby Dick or [...]

IBM has a new article/tutorial on their DeveloperWorks site covering Yahoo! Pipes.
Explore the steps and benefits of using a content feed filtering utility like Yahoo Pipes to better capture, merge, and alter specific data from available streams. This tutorial outlines some techniques to approach feed transformations, and includes three demonstrations featuring key areas of the [...]

Going somewhere? Like to travel? Try out my new Travel Robot Yahoo! Pipe. This Pipe includes all travel related tips from lifehacker.com and lifehack.org. Additionally it will filter some of the major on-line sources of travel infromation such as frommers.com, away.com, orbitz.com, and smartertravel.com. Build your filter by entering 1 keyword in each of the [...]

If you haven’t logged in to Feedburner lately you may have missed the notice. They let you opt-out if you don’t want to be part of Google.
Service of FeedBurner publisher accounts will not be interrupted as a result of the acquisition by Google. You will have a 14-day interim period ending June 15, 2007 to [...]

In the first installment of this series (How Come I Have No Readers? Part 1 - Feeds) I described how to provide your readers a way to subscribe to your blog. Now that you have that all set up correctly it is time to help people find your blog.
Great, you told your family and friends [...]