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Twitter has become one of the best ways to stay up to date with the news and current ‘Trends’ as they’re called on the service. However, in order to stay informed on one particular subject you have to search for it manually.
TweetAlert is an app that will follow subjects and trends that you have an interest in and when one is tweeted, it will be re-tweeted by your account so you can see it there when you next log in.
It literally takes less than thirty seconds to sign up to a trend using the service by filling in a quick form which you can see above. After that you’ll see the trends and topics on your twitter homepage.
It’s available here: http://code-or-die.com/tweetalert/
Creating a podcast can seem like a fun idea at first. But then many amateur podcasters get put off when they discover all the feeds, tech know-how and fees that are involved. Uploading to iTunes requires a credit card and trying to host it all yourself can be like redesigning the space shuttle.
Podcast generator is different from your average podcast service. It’s this cool piece of software that is 100% free and really easy to use. First for all you download it from their website. Then, you can use it to upload almost any media file whatsoever such as mp3, WMA or Mp4.
You can add a title, description and tags so people can find it. As your episodes build up you’ll be able to see them in a
nice list format ready to be edited or deleted. You can also use the feed link to add the podcast to many download services like Feed Burner or Yahoo!.
One bad thing that I will say is that it’s all very basic. Your page is not very eye pleasing and promoting the podcast is difficult. None the less it’s a free podcast creator and is well worth a look if anyone is thinking of making their own podcast.
Have you ever spent a lot of time searching around the Internet to find the perfect social media button that can be added to your site? Well stop searching and head over to MySocialButtons. MySocialButtons does what it says on the can and offers free social networking icons and buttons to download. Buttons include TTwitter, Reddit, Digg, Facebook, Stumbleupon and come in various different colours, styles and sizes.
It has been reported by the Silicon Alley Insider that Yahoo is closing their RSS Advertising solution.
Not much word on why — a Yahoo spokeswoman provided this statement to SAI:
Yahoo! is closing its Ads in RSS effective February 2, 2009. The beta program, which enabled publishers to place contextually relevant ads on their own site, was available to a targeted group of small online publishers. We have ended this beta program to focus on other more broadly used ad products for our publishing partners such as Sponsored Search and Content Match.
Silicon Alley isnt really sure why Yahoo is making this move. However, here at Crenk we know that this is just a smaller part of the big move coming from Yahoo. I have heard from inside the company that they are going to be closing a lot of departments within their contextual advertising network. Major changes will be coming with the next three months.
Currently for Crenk we have been noticing that more and more people are following our feed on Twitter. It has got to a stage now where there are more people adding us on Twitter everyday than subscribing to our RSS feed. Is this saying something? Is Twitter becoming more of an RSS reader for people or are they just following our feed in Twitter because we are fairly active and give actual responses to direct questions?
There has been a lot of talk recently about companies still not adopting new media as much as they should and especially Twitter, but I really cant understand why! Twitter is an amazing network tool for all types of companies and it can actually provide big organisation with an easy way to directly communicate with users. Branding on Twitter is easy to control and even easier to see who has been discussing your brand.
From my point of view I couldn’t live without my RSS reader, simply because I have so many sources of information and I can easily and effectively control and read them. Twitter could never be my RSS reader, but is it some kind of substitute?
Over the last month or so we have made some big changes here at Crenk and they finally seem to be paying off. Crenk has now been selected to be a default feed in the technology section of Blogrovr.
Blogrovr is a browser plugin that provides users content about the websites that are browsing. Blogrovr is a very simple idea dont brilliantly. We are amazingly honoured to be a default site for Blogrovr and it puts us in great company with sites such as Mashable, Techcrunch, Lifehacker, Engadget, VentureBeat, Centernetworks and more.
If you are already a Blogrovr user then please add Crenk or if your not a user why not?
NewsGator Technologies, the company behind some of the biggest name RSS feeder applications out today has taken a big step by releasing all of its consumer products for free. The applications include NewsGator Inbox, FeedDemon, and NetNewsWire. Mobile software that is now free includes NewsGator Go for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPhone, and others. NewsGator also frees NewsGator Online, the Web-based RSS feed.
Since NewsGator did go free they have seen some steady improvements in their traffic and users. That being the case im not too sure where their business model stands, if they are offering some services at a price or if they take a percentage of advertising revenues within certain products.
However, if you are looking for some world class products for free, then head over to NewsGator.
I was reading about an interesting product over at Webappers today, Feed Compare. Feed Compare is a free web application that can be used to compared feedburner feed counts from any website that has enable their feed counter. This tool is great, simple and easy to use. Users just have to find out the feedburner address of the feeds they want to compare and then insert them into this compete looking tool.
Features for this tool include: viewing up to 24 months worth of data (other options are: 12 months, 6 months, 3 months and one month). Zoom in on particular timeframes using click and drag. Users can link directly to the feed comparisons chart much like Alexa ‘permalink’ style. And it allows users compare up to 4 feeds at a time.
Twitter has become one of the best ways to stay up to date with the news and current ‘Trends’ as they’re called on the service. However, in order to stay informed on one particular subject you have to search for it manually.
