"I picked up this little gem of a trick from Herman Lintvelt’s (@hermanlintvelt) Domain Specific Language (DSL) talk, at AppsWorld Africa at the beginning of the month, where he walked through the processes of creating a DSL for a SASSI Pocket Guide app for Android and iOS.  His example used a Google Spreadsheet to maintains the status of indigenous to South Africa, and  using the ‘Publish as a web page”feature, he demonstrated how the Spreadsheet RSS export be used as a webservice…niffty, huh!"

"all you need to know are your 3 Facebook numbers: facebook_id, your_internal_key and your_friend_key. Once you have these 3 numbers, you can copy and paste them into a custom RSS feed for your status, the status of your friends, all notifications or links from you or your friends. "<br />
Status Feedhttp://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=your_facebook_id&vieweryour_facebook_id&key=your_internal_key&format=rss20<br />
Notifications Feedhttp://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?idyour_facebook_id&viewer=your_facebook_id&key=your_internal_key&format=rss20<br />
Friends Status Feedhttp://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?idyour_facebook_id&key=your_friends_key&format=rss20<br />
Friends Links Feedhttp://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/share_friends_posts.php?idyour_facebook_id&key=your_friend_key&format=rss20<br />
Friends List Feedhttp://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?idyour_facebook_id&key=your_friend_key&format=rss20

"We've also made it easier for your friends and family to follow updates on your site. You can now access any announcement page as a feed by adding posts.xml to the end of that announcement page URL. For example, this is the feed URL for our sample ski club site: http://sites.google.com/a/googleuniversity.org/ski-club/Home/Ski-Club-Announcements/posts.xml Feeds are also available for site comments (add "comments.xml") and site activity (add "activity.xml"). Announcement and comment feeds follow the permission of the site and require authentication for private sites. This means online feed readers which don't support authenticated feeds won't be able to subscribe to private site feeds or site activity."

for creating RSS feeds in Python

"automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns. " Has some regex support too.

"MediaRSS is a way of embedding media into your feeds. The specification at http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/ provides for many kinds of media: audio, video, etc. This plugin is equipped to locate img tags in your posts and generate XML code that can be used by feed readers. Also included are code samples demonstrating how to extend the plugin's functionality to meet your needs. Some PHP experience is assumed."

"Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python. 3000 unit tests. Open source."

two handy bookmarklets for offering Google Reader subscribe buttons. Handy to have for Chrome or Microb.

pass it an rss feed and it will IM/SMS/Email you when it updates

pass it a FedEx tracking number an get an RSS feed

for quickly creating an RSS tracking feed for UPS trying to make one that goes straight to GR: http://www.packagemapping.com/track/tracking.php?action=track&shipper=ups&tracknum=%s&rss=1 http://google.com/reader/preview/*/feed/http://www.shaftek.org/code/track2rss/track2rss.pl?type=ups&tracking_number=%s

"Newsmastering is a new and emerging skill that involves gathering, filtering and selecting from the chaos of information that saturates the internet, and delivering the resulting news feed to niche-targeted audiences." The internet is so vast, that finding what you are looking for is becoming increasingly difficult. Google searches, however well refined, can produce hundreds of thousands of results.

free service that allows you to receive RSS updates via IM; in other words, it is an instant messaging-based RSS reader

embeddable ajax-y feed widget

identity aggregator

track all editing on your site. A page is provided with a list of all revisions and comments in chronological order.

if you’ve got a private network, want to expose RSS feeds, and aren’t too concerned about any feed info leaking out through an aggregator, here’s how to enable feeds in your network.

Googlemaps + RSS

simple interface for filtering a feed

"Comment" and "Out Loud" look interesting.

return Google search results to you via RSS

Filter all of your RSS feeds through web application FeedHub for a single, customized RSS feed that only delivers content that best matches your preferences.

quick summaries from feeds. i'm not sure why feedburner doesn't offer an alternate brief version of all your burned feeds...

a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to slurp@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/slurp.xml (where you choose slurp, having checked that it's not already in use).

retrieve the history of a feed for archiving purposes or to import it in a database

an RSS generator for web pages without a web syndication format

reads the entries of an RSS feed and searches the Geonames Database to find a location for the entry text. If a relevant location is found, its latitude and longitude are added to the RSS feed using the GeoRSS encoding.

a collection of tools and services that simplify the process of creating RSS Feeds with rich data extensions. Feeds are generated from RSSBus Connectors, reusable code modules that convert data into feeds.

easy to use tool that lets you automatically filter out syndicated content that you aren't interested in. It's like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions.

Download and use/modify them as you wish, with 1 exception: You may NOT post these source files on your own site to redistribute.

a pipe that will take all feeds listed in an OPML file, aggregate all of the items therein, and return the results.

a podcast aggregator. It’s a tool to subscribe to RSS feeds which supply downloadable files. Doppler will go out and fetch the files enclosed in the RSS feed and will automatically add them to your preferred media player.

a desktop app that programs RSS feeds, REST apps, and web clips through a browser interface

lately i've been reading news on my tablet, which means i'm tagging less in delicious. i'm "sharing" the stuff that piques my interest here, because it fits in my flow, and hopefully the best stuff makes it to my delish stream...

Also see travel points along a map.

an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.

customizing, filtering, converting and merging newsfeeds and podcasts

a little code that will make it easy for you to add social bookmark links to your blog posts.

We interface with the UPS (down), FedEx, DHL, and USPS systems, to make it easier to get the tracking information you are looking for. Simply enter in your UPS, FedEx or USPS tracking number and you will be given a link to an RSS feed containing the track

Ponyfish is a FREE web-based tool that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any web page.

WebMon is a freeware web page update monitoring program - it saves you time and keeps you updated by automatically checking web pages to see if they have changed.

My daily trend fixes: Popurls (), Techmeme (), and now Google Reader (). Yours?

The biggest complaint that people have about RSS feeds is that there are simply too many of them. RSSfunnel solves this problem by allowing you to merge feeds together and also put a filter on them.

You can promote your feed by placing an "Add to Google" button to your website. This will make it easy for people to quickly add your feed right to their Google homepage or Google Reader.

URL with "atom.xml" after it) you will see a messy document you can't read, but your RSS reader can. That document is updated each time a new post is saved to this blog. Your RSS reader pulls down that document and shows you each post's title — and "mar

Track non-RSS enabled site changes

Newbie intro to RSS in 23 short, easy steps (see below) with as little jargon as possible.

FeedFlare is a one-step service that enables publishers to configure a very slim "footer" containing customizable actions that will appear beneath each item in a feed. Here's an example of what FeedFlare looks like to a subscriber of this blog's feed.

Feed Validator for Atom and RSS

RSS to email converter

RSS to email converter