Acquisition is an interesting word. Often we hear mergers and acquisition. But when one hears the word acquisition it has very different meaning. Merger means the joining of two or more companies while acquisition means the purchase of one company by another.

Nothing negative really. It just implies the direction the two companies are going to take. And
Mobispine, which now has 300,000 plus active mobile users per month, will make use of NewsAlloy to drive momentum to reach its goal of reaching 10 million users.

And they do this by providing improved and easy-to-use service.

Mobispine is available as a free download for Internet-enabled mobile phone.

Other features or services offered by Mobispine include but no limited to the following:

- View Web content

- Save datatime,

- The unique feed search function makes it easy to search the feeds.

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Mobispine acquires NewsAlloy

FeedMYSearch will take your Google search and convert it into an RSS feed. You can even specify the type of search based on:

Web
news
videos
blogs
local
books
images
patents

You can do this with Goggle using Google News Alert. I have and I still am doing it. My impression on FeedMySearch is that it does the following:

1. Makes the rss feed creation via search more easily done.
2. It allows the info-punter to specify the search in terms of format or type of information.
3. Cuts down the step to getting an RSS feed.

It makes life simpler. And this makes RSS feeds more available to all.

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Search to RSS with FeedMySearch

(i) PostRank.com website

PostRank is now a service independent from AideRSS. WHat this means is that a developler can integrate or use PostRank in an application.

(ii) Thematic PostRank™

This gives the user or developer to arbitrarily rank a set of online articles. It does not have to come from the same feed source

(iii) Google Reader Extension with Thematic PostRank

Thematic PostRank can now be used in Google Reader.

(iv) New APIs and more data sources

More powerful APIs. This means a more faster and caching delay free service. Also it seems that the widh and breadth of the service has been expanded with new sources.

More tools for us infophiles both users and producers.

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New things at AideRSS ? PostRank.com for one

According to the press release, the iPhone’s RSS Reader is easy to use.

The application is extremely easy-to-use and features a simple, clear user interface that complements the iPhone and iPod touch experience. NetNewsWire for iPhone makes it easy for users to cycle through all their news by using the “Next Unread” button, which goes from story to story with a quick tap of a single button. Users can also save items to read or blog about later via clipping, and saved items also sync with the desktop and browser-based RSS readers.[Source]

Apparently the application was developed to be in sync with the iPhone’s intuitive sense of use experience. NetNewsWire Creator and Developer Brent Simmons implied as much and said that the “popularity of the iPhone and iPod touch makes it the perfect platform to create an outstanding mobile application that can become a part of people’s everyday experience. [Source]”

NetNewsWire for iPhone is free and available at Apple’s App Store (on iPhone and iPod touch) and here.

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NetNewsWire now available for IPhone and IPods

Of course one can also visit their website to read the feeds but this feature seems to distract it from its main service. It delivers updates via IM and that is important. And this can be particularly useful for managing feeds.

Why?

No need to go back and forth to the feed reader to check if a particular feed has a new post.

In my opinion, this would be useful in checking those high priority RSS feeds and not the whole kaboodle, if you get my drift. Unless of course the number of RSS feeds you subscribe to is just below the voting age: If you do not have much RSS feeds then you can also use it for such things.

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IM Feeds a useful tool

Features improved include:

1. A redesigned user interface.
2. It has New templates.
3. A more simpler and streamlined procedures for creating widgets.

NewsGators widget allows businesses – in particular brand and media companies – to build, deploy, and track widgets.

NewsGators widgets platform enable business and on-line publishers to engage its readers by using social media and newsGators Web 2.0 syndication productst:

1. RSS Readers
2. Widget Framework
3. Community Publisher
4. Widget Ads

Even without the widget ads and speaking as a blogger. These widgets does seem to offer the tools one needs to better the reading experience of ones visitors to the blog.

More information about NewsGator Widgets can be seen here.

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NewsGator’s Editors Desk 2.1

What does NewsGator Widget Services do?

And why is there interest in it?

NewsGator Widget Services creates widgets that send content to the following:

1. Web sites

2. Blogs

3. Social networks

4. Start pages

And according to NewsGator it can create additional advertising revenue and reach new audiences from using widgets. From the looks of it one thing is sure such widgets make things easy and entertaining for the punter , us , to subscribe.

Well this is another way to get over the RSS apprehension while using it (RSS) to power syndication of posts.

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Newsgator and Dac sign deal to use widgets

It is not limited to searching and downloading e-books in different formats but FeedBooks also allows users to publish their work. Ready for the downloadable in several formats. This is cool.

This is just the first main thing that FeedBook offers. The other thing or feature or services that FeedBook offers is that it allows users to read their favorite RSS feeds in PDF formats. All you have to do is drop the link and click. Check it out here.

This feature will prove handy if you would like to bring your most favorite RSS feed or mash-up along with you.

And the books available are not bad also.

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FeedBooks is interesting because

1. Pick a style and a name for your display

One can choose from vertical, vertical stacked and horizontal display. The name for the display is up to you: One can name it my other blogs or those that cannot be mentioned but are here. It is for the punter to choose.

2. Type in a feed expression

Feed expressions could be tags, categories or more specific name of your blog. The search will generate or find the RSS feed for that particular expression. And you are good to go … unless you want to be more specific and you can do this by changing the feed expression you place.

3. Generate Code

Satisfied with the content and look of your display. Generate the code and paste it on your website.

You can tweak with the settings for the display. Maybe its the only thing I will say about Dynamic Feed Control is one needs to have the dimensions of the display customizable as well.

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Show your feeds with Dynamic Feed Control

Consider the following things done or implemented or introduced:

1. A new site interface
2. a breaking news page
3. a Breaking news feed on Twitter
4. a ReadBurner weekly podcast.
5. and support for Netvibes.
6. Widgets

Read the post.

What is interesting is that the competition seems to be heating up with RSSmeme.

And its a good thing because the good features/service comes out faster. As the rivals try to out do or one up the other us consumers will reap the benefits.

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What is up ReadBurner?