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RSSinclude v0.1 is yet another tool to integrate RSS into your website…this one can re-syndicate to Java, PHP, or IFrame (you get a scroll bar with IFrame)…try it out here.

Adding this tool to my list of re-syndication tools.

Just had a play with yubnub…wow, this tool is very cool!

You can add a command to the system…command label, description, plus the URL.

Then you can go to the search bar, enter your command and it will take you straight to that website.

Good thing is that you can install the plug-in, so you can easily search from your browser.

So if you want to go to Wikipedia all you do is enter “wp” in the searchbar and your taken to the website.

The browsable list has the, command, website name and URL…but if you want to go to a website from the plug-in you will probably have to commit some commands to memory.

The immediate problem is multiple commands for the same URL…as an experiment I just made “wpedia” which takes you to the same URL as “wp”
…so there may be a bit of clutter

The unique thing is that a command will only go to one designated URL.

The reason I say this is, what if you don’t like the “wp” command for Wikipedia, well as just mentioned above make your own command for the same URL, but you may prefer this command to mean Wordpress…but too bad “wp” is already taken.

So this leads to…can yubnub be accessed via a log-in as a personalised version, this would be great as you have control over the commands.

According to my obervations your commands won’t be able to be automatically included into some sort of folksonomy (unless they are unique commands) as the same command label can’t be designated for more than one URL.

The only way to share commands is by entering them in manually into the yubnub home page.

Read more here.

The only similar application I’ve come across is ActiveWords.

del.icio.us direc.tor is an alternate interface for del.icio.us that gives you room to manage your account.

You can also search by tag, description, or exclude a search term.

From their website:

“The main features are:

Ad-hoc tag browser”

Ufeed provides a free service where you can combine your blog feed, del.icio.us feed and flickr feed into one feed.

I suppose it’s no big deal as you can already re-mix feeds with a number of tools…the additional service is that Ufeed not only present you with a feed, but there is a readable version of your feed hosted on their site.

I don’t see this as anything new at all…just sign up to Feedburner and splice up your feeds…when you click on the Feedburner feed, they too have a pleasant version of your content that you can browse…this is mine.

A good way to present an automated feed is on a blog, using an RSS-to-HTML tool you can syndicate the contents of any feed or combinations of feed into a blog…this ends up being a self populating blog that works on it’s own.

Some people use their del.icio.us account as a link blog, or one of the tags in their account as the content for a link blog. If you re-syndicate this to a blog, people don’t need to go to del.icio.us to read your links they can go to your much more pleasant link blog.

I should walk the walk, and make my own link blog from my del.icio.us account.

Check out this prime example of this simple technique.

I lost focus on the previous post (Friday afternoon and all), and lacked to conclude that the focus on my post was on being able to offer an excerpt version of your blog even if you don’t use excerpts in your posts and don’t use RSS summaries.

I mentioned that the best way to do this is via Findory, they offer an excerpt version of your blog…so they are not only an RSS engine but they also deliver content at the per blog level (actually as an alternate version of your blog)…this is what makes them different to other RSS engines as per the comparison on the last post.

So, as stands, if you go to my actual blog, it will show full-text posts (it doesn’t have read more links)
…and I also choose to syndicate the RSS full-text feed, and not summaries.

If you go to my blog on Findory, it will show excerpts of my posts
…and the RSS feed will also only show excerpts or summaries.
…and the RSS feed will show related articles to my blog.

Although, there is a more native/secure way to show RSS full-text and RSS summaries…on some blogs I have seen two RSS feeds to choose from, one for full-text and one for summaries.

Eg.
RSS (full-text)
RSS (summaries)

Not sure how to add this to your blog, but I currently have RSS 2.0, which I gather means you can choose to publish full-text or summaries, whereas the early versions of the RSS standard, could only publish summaries, and even earlier versions could only publish titles.

So I guess by having three different versions of RSS on your blog you can offer, RSS feeds for; titles, summaries, and full-text (all this without relying on a 3rd party).

[ADDED 25/07/05: also see BlogPulse RSS Summaries]