America Online Teams up with Feedster for Personalized ''My AOL'' RSS Feeds Search on the New AOL.com(R) Web Portal.DULLES, Va. -- America Online See AOL. , Inc.:
AOL Working with Leading RSS Search Engine to Provide Fully
Customizable Portal Page with Automatic Updates for RSS News and
Content Feeds from across the Web
Initial Beta Release of "My AOL" Available Now at www.aol.com
America Online, Inc., today announced the initial beta release See beta version. of My AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , a new personalized home page See personal portal. on the AOL.com(R) Web portal See portal. (www.aol.com). The new AOL.com portal provides users with the flexibility to access and use the portal based on their specific needs and interests. In addition to a centralized page that provides a view of AOL.com's entire suite of features and its new Video Hub experience, the portal also provides a personal "My AOL" page for consumers who want fast access to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. (Really Simple Syndication) feeds for updates of news and content they care about. AOL has teamed up with Feedster(TM), a leading RSS search engine, to provide the capability for My AOL users to search and subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; publisher-specific and topic-based feeds that relate to their interests. Drawing from sources across the Web, the new My AOL will provide users with up-to-the minute articles and information on the subjects that matter most to the user and presents this content in a simple, streamlined and organized format. "By enabling consumers to create their own personal home page on AOL.com to manage all of their sources of online information in one central location, My AOL provides a convenient solution for a usually time-consuming ritual: visiting multiple Web sites and blogs multiple times each day to catch up on news," said Kerry Parkins, Director, Audience Products, America Online. "By leveraging leading technology from Feedster, AOL is able to provide an easy and fully personalized way for people to discover new RSS feeds and create their own virtually real-time information journal." With the tremendous volume of information available on the Web and the constant rate at which it changes, My AOL utilizes the best technology available to simplify the process of gathering and organizing important news feeds so that they will be quickly and easily available to the user. Feedster's proprietary technology platform crawls the Web continuously fetching updated posts and RSS feeds. This enables delivery of a fresh index of information from millions of sources more frequently than traditional search engines. As a result, Feedster has the largest index of RSS feeds. It leads the market today with a rapidly growing searchable index of over 11 million RSS feeds and hundreds of millions of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. documents. "AOL is one of the first to make RSS easy-to-use for mainstream Internet users. With My AOL and My Feeds, AOL is continuing its industry leadership in making new technologies accessible," says Scott Rafer, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Feedster. "We're thrilled to be AOL's partner powering My AOL's Feeds and Search. Together, we will demonstrate to AOL audiences and the online industry the growing power Growing Power is an urban agriculture organization headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It runs the last functional farm within the Milwaukee city limits and also organizes activities in Chicago. of RSS feeds." With My AOL, each user decides what's important and can sign up for RSS feeds that relate to their personal interests. From one organized page, they'll be able to stay up-to-date on everything from established news sources to popular blogs and more -- virtually any site that offers an RSS feed. Features of the new My AOL personalized page include: --A "My Feeds" section which retrieves updated headlines from favorite Web sites. Users can select from a pre-set list of categories - from national news, business news and politics to entertainment, sports news, technology and humor - as well as add their own feed-based content to their personal My AOL page. --The ability to easily add RSS feeds manually by entering RSS/XML addresses or URLs for favorite Web sites. My AOL will automatically scan these Web sites for all available feeds. Other features that will be added soon include: --The ability to easily search the Web for additional RSS feeds. --A "Top Feeds" section that will display Top News and Hot Blogs from across the Web. --The ability for users to access their My AOL page from any computer by exporting their settings. Availability: The initial beta version of the new My AOL page is available today from a "My AOL" Tab on the new AOL.com portal at www.aol.com. Additional features will be incorporated over the coming weeks. About America Online, Inc. America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Time Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. About Feedster Feedster, Inc., found at http://www.feedster.com, is a rapidly growing Internet search engine and advertising network for blogs and RSS feeds. Feedster's helps individuals and organizations harness the rich information available in the new universe of RSS feeds, which includes blogs, traditional news services, e-commerce sites, and entertainment properties. Feedster's search engine updates several times per hour, always providing a fresh look at over the more than 11 million sources it tracks. Feedster adds millions of new documents each day from millions of blogs and a quarter million professionally edited feeds from sites such as The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. , CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , and Wired. Approximately 50,000 new sources are added daily. The company has also developed an advertising network that enables marketers to target RSS subscribers in numerous vertical categories. Founded in March 2003, the privately-held company is based in San Francisco. |
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