Nick Bradbury

Add Google to FeedDemon

In his latest FeedDemon Tip, Oskar van Rijswijk shows how to add Google as a FeedDemon search channel.

Google on Search Engine Optimizations

Google on the effectiveness of search engine optimizations (via Digital Media Minute).

RSS Politics and Microsoft

Joshua Allen says the "debate" over Atom vs. RSS is a complete non-issue for Microsoft.

Blogging behind the firewall

InfoWorld provides a look at how they use internal weblogs.

Towel Day

Today is Towel Day. Don't panic - just carry your towel.

New FeedDemon Newspaper Styles

Over the weekend I created a number of newspaper styles which I plan to include in the final release of FeedDemon 1.10. If you'd like to give them a try, just browse this page in FeedDemon and click the links below:

• Forum
• Mega Blue


• Mega Gold
• Mega Green


• Nightfall
• Popbox Blue [ screenshot ]


• Popbox Green

Will Google Netscape Microsoft?

Paul Allen states that Microsoft can't Netscape Google, but Google can Netscape Microsoft, and predicts that Google's market cap will exceed Microsoft's within 10-15 years.

FeedDemon 1.10 RC4

FeedDemon 1.10 RC4 is now available to registered users.

• Added: Generic "Date" column to news item list, which contains pubDate if it exists, received date otherwise. This new column isthe only date column shown by default - both the "received" and "published" columns are hidden. This also affects the default sorting and grouping (both are now set to the generic date), which may change how you're used to seeing news items sorted.
• Changed: The default newspaper filter is now "Unread News" instead of "Today's News"
• Changed: The default value for automatically marking items as read has changed from five seconds to three seconds
• Changed: The cleanup wizard now remembers your selections
• Changed: Double-clicking a news item navigates the news item's link if the item newspaper is showing, otherwise it re-displays the news item newspaper (change in RC3's behavior)
• Fixed: FeedDemon now correctly handles xml:base in Atom entries and passes all the link tests at http://diveintomark.org/tmp/tests/wellformed/base/links-in-content.xml and http://diveintomark.org/tmp/tests/wellformed/base/links.xml
• Fixed: "Previous unread channel" shortcut skips topmost channel

When you're ready to download RC4, stop by the FeedDemon beta site.

The Courtship of Atom

In The Courtship of Atom, Kendall Grant Clark writes about the W3C's recent interest in Atom.

"Syndication is important enough...to the future of the Web that the W3C has to try to influence the outcome."

TopStyle and FeedDemon nominated for shareware award

TopStyle and FeedDemon have both been nominated for the 2004 Shareware Industry Awards :)