Freitag, 27. August 2004

Feedless Hall of Shame: Most of the Fortune 100. Here's an update for my Feedless Hall of Shame [^] this blog's personal pit of ignominy for those organizations or online venues which really, really should offer at least some kind of minimal webfeed-based information services. In fact, they have no good excuse not to be doing so already!

I figured that the best business rationale for offering webfeeds [^] at the very least for press releases and investor information [^] would be major companies. I mean, these organizations live and breathe in tune with the gyrations of the fast-moving stock market and media. What better way to reach out to investors and the press than to offer webfeeds for those online audiences? Serve them up-to-the-minute information in a highly organized format, friendly to updating and syndication. Bingo!

With that in mind, I used Feedster's Feedfinder tool to scan for webfeeds on the internet domains of the Fortune 100 (the 100 largest US companies, based on 2003 revenue, ranked by Fortune Magazine).

The results, in a word, were dismal. Currently only four Fortune 100 companies offer any sort of publicly-accessible webfeed under their primary domain [^] and only one (IBM) is making serious use of this valuable new communication channel.

As Homer Simpson would say: D'oh!

So which Fortune 100 companies are using webfeeds, which aren't, and how could they all leverage this medium?...

(Read the list...) [Contentious Weblog] 11:54:33 PM   trackback [] 

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iPodder for Windows!. Pieter Overbeeke has released an iPodder that you can run on windows with iTunes. It automagically downloads all mp3 enclosures from rss feeds and puts them into your iTunes library.

I have no way of testing Pieter's script, but if it works as advertised, we just opened the iPod Platform to a huge audience.

Next step: getting from iTunes to non-iPod mp3 players.

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 11:52:22 PM   trackback [] 

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get_enclosures duplicates. I've been using Dave Slusher's perl iPodder and noticed lots of duplicates in my iTunes playlist. There's Applescript code in the Mac iPodder that removes them on each run. I tried putting my script into Dave's, but still don't grok how the syntax for the applescript calls work in perl.

Dave has also been making beautiful use of RSS features.

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 11:50:50 PM   trackback [] 

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