Using one of the methods demonstrated in class, add an RSS Feed of your ITEC 845 WordPress Blog to your ITEC 845 website Homepage or Template.

It will be your choice which method of embedding RSS feeds into HTML pages works best for you and whether you just add it to your Homepage or to your entire template.

set up by James Briano and Jeff Munson explains in great detail exactly what website aggregators are. Applications that monitor websites, gather data, and assemble the data gathered in a format that you specify. Examples of desktop and Iphone applications that allow you to bring together all your social websites, Flickr, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, etc.

It seems as if that was the many topic at 2009 Web 2.0 Expo. A lot of companies pushing aggregators.

So why aren’t social websites like Facebook or Flickr adding this feature to their own sites? That way they can keep users on their own sites instead of going to sites like Nomee where everyone will be looking at their Facebook or their Flickr through the Nomee interface. Keep users where they are! I say add aggregators to all sites!

NetNewWire

An easy-to-use RSS and Atom reader for your Mac

NetNewsWire has a familiar three-paned interface and can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs. NetNewsWire is now free! You can get all the cool features of NetNewsWire at no cost.

New Version 3.1! Bring the power of RSS right to your Mac OS X desktop

• New! UI update with new toolbar icons.
• New! Performance and memory enhancements including an improved Combined View which uses multiple pages to display long lists of items.
• New! HTML Archive feature – saves news items as HTML files on disk. These files are compatible with any web browser.
• Desktop integration – Address Book, iCal, iPhoto, Growl, Twitterrific and more.
• Great new look – improved Combined View, feed “cover art”, full-screen mode, and tabs with thumbnails and animations.
• Synchronized clippings – read your saved articles from the web or another NewsGator reader.
• Microformat detection for contacts and calendar events.
• Automatic checking for newer versions of the software.
• Automatic download of podcasts and transfer to iTunes.
• Smart lists to aggregate news from your feeds based on criteria.

Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world. Web 2.0 Expo is co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb.

Although it was a bit smaller than last year and no swag, I found a few booths with some interesting products. Last year it was all about different social networks; flickr, facebook, twitter, etc. This year it was all about integration. There were several companies providing sites which will help you see all your networks in the same interface. A few example are…

• Nomee
  nomee is all-in-one networking software; the tool that helps manage them all. Powered by Adobe AIR, nomee simplifies online networking by organizing your contacts and interests all in one place. So you can focus directly on your people, not their sites. And your people can better know you, direct from their desktop.



• Static
  Static lets you micro-broadcast articles, photos, videos, blogs and more. Create your own micro-broadcast network for your website or group and broadcast to Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace.

  

I also found a company named GazoPa.

GazoPa is a similar image search service on the web in private beta by Hitachi. Users can search images from the web based on user’s own photo, drawings, images found on the web and keywords. GazoPa enables users to search for a similar image from characteristics such as a color or a shape extracted from an image itself. GazoPa is a new visual search service that can navigate users to new territories on the web.

My favorite company was Yola, a FREE, online website builder. It features elements for databases, creating commerce sites with shopping carts and form , add images, video, etc.

HUM, Can you say “bye, bye Dreamweaver”.