How can you stop RSS feed republishing of your blog and prevent content theft to avoid duplicate content penalties, or getting scrapped content ranking higher in search results than your own blog article. Install Feed Copyright. To deal with sites republishing RSS, we created the  Simple feed copyright WordPress plugin  which adds a copyright notice as well as links back to the blog url and permalink of the post. Of course the easiest way is to search for your latest post title within quotes on Google and all search results which have the same title will be detected. MORE >>

This is based on the discussion that arose from our earlier post about topic feeds , which are RSS feeds for keywords or phrases. Feed and/or Email Services. We think this type of topic feed tool is the most flexible, particularly when it outputs RSS. With RSS feed output, you can do further filtering or grouping of the feeds inside an RSS Reader like Google Reader or Netvibes. The most common such tool is probably Google Alerts. Google Alerts. Delicious feeds. Google Fast-Flip feeds. Google Trends. MORE >>

It was a sad day today as news about Google reader shutting down spread and I wonder if Feedburner shut down is next in line. Google reader is my primary RSS aggregator and is the main tool which I use to track breaking news across the blogosphere and read my favourite blogs. But now I have to find an alternative way to read RSS feeds. Google Reader Shuts Down. It makes sense on Google’s part to focus on core products which are profitable to them. As Google says -. And now Google reader is also on the way out. Blogging Google MORE >>

So, it looks like Google is entering the comment system fray. Google’s clearly taken a look at how Facebook Comments tie the user into Zuckerberg’s network, and wants a piece of that pie to go along with their recent abandonment of their “don’t be evil” mantra. While it’ll no doubt attract its fans and users – especially the Google+ aficionados – I can’t help but feel the announcement is just another indication of why Google is struggling when it comes to social. Google Earth, they bought. Cue growth time. MORE >>

Since launching more than two and a half years ago with a new magazine-like start page built with a foundation of RSS, Feedly has grown a committed user base who has enjoyed the service's unique take on Google Reader and other feeds, including Twitter. After nearly 18 months of development, Feedly can finally be downloaded from the iTunes store , available for iPhone and iPod Touch, for $2.99, while development for Android continues. From what I can see, double digit shares are exceptional) Want to mark all items as read in Feedly on iPhone? iPhone Feedly RS MORE >>