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Listen up: RSS now comes with sound. RSS's ability to handle enclosures, or attached files, has led to "podcasting," a way to capture the latest audio Webcasts on an iPod or other MP3 player. Net-radio stations and traditional broadcasters have been streaming live and archived content for a while. But without the time and software to capture, compress and offload the stream, you're tied to a terminal. RSS software such as iPodder lets you subscribe to, say, a weekly jazz podcast, an MP3 of which is downloaded every seven days and then dumped on your player next...
...longer just for telling time. With its new Paparazzi model, Swatch has teamed up with MSN Direct to transform timepieces into technological multitaskers capable of providing the wearer with up-to-the-minute news, sports scores, weather reports and stock quotes. Exclusive access to Swatch City, specialized free content provided by Time Out magazine, will keep wearers informed about local cultural events and hip bars in 10 top cities. --By Samantha Hallock
...Andrews uses a downloadable software called a news reader to subscribe to feeds from RSS-enabled websites that match his interests in new technology. Whenever those feeds are updated, an outline of each new story appears automatically in his reader along with a link back to the full content on the originating page. It's kind of like customized, one-stop information shopping. "RSS means stories from all my favorite sources just pop into my news reader as soon as they're published," he says. "I no longer have to spend ages scrabbling around lots of different sites every morning...
...flash in the pan? Moreover insists it's making money by offering RSS news services to subscribing corporate clients like Citigroup, Hill & Knowlton and the U.S. Department of Energy. Moreover mines the Web for the subjects requested by the customer, and then develops RSS news feeds with the desired content. Hill & Knowlton, for example, could use Moreover to track information published about its many clients...
...Whip It;” the other remixes of bands such as Black Dice, the Rapture, and DFA’s house band LCD Soundsystem. One of these CDs was deemed relevant to today’s rock soundscape; the other found its content position in the throw-away bin without much fanfare. Needless to say, the youth brigade of the DFA won the day, and “What is Hip?” was proven a rhetorical question, if not with the answer its distributors intended...