Tag Archives: feeds

by Michelle Lentz

Yesterday, Facebook announced a new real-time updating feature in your news feed. Similar to how Twitter Search displays recent additions, Facebook will display a link under your status field: “Show X New Posts.” If you click the link, you’ll free the new updates. So while it’s not as engaging (or distracting) as FriendFeed’s live updating of the stream, it is more controlled.

I like the idea of being able to see when there are new updates, without having to continually check the page or feel like I’ve missed something (as I do with FriendFeed). Facebook is rolling the new update out gradually, whatever that means.

What do you think of real-time feeds on Facebook?

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by Brian Solis

Google Alerts is one of the most widely embraced services for tracking keywords in Google News, video, groups and in the blogosphere. While it has been incredibly helpful, one feature that was both widely requested and unavailable is the ability receive Google Alerts via RSS Feeds.

Well, as of yesterday, that has changed.

Introducing Google Alerts for feeds, using the feed reader of your choice.

Log in to your Google Alerts account and select the preferred method for delivery, “Email” or “Feed.” Then, simple add it to your feed reader.

Alerts are also now faster and also support embedded images.

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