Google turns to RSS news feeds for placing ads google turns to rss news feeds for placing ads. Google has begun testing the placing of adverts within RSS news feeds. Google has begun testing the placing of adverts within RSS news feeds. The ads are beginning to appear in feeds from several of Google’s testing partners ; the first instances were in around 60 feeds from LonghornBlogs and have since appeared in Engadget’s feed....

AOL offers personalized home page, RSS feeds. aol offers personalized home page. AOL has launched a beta version of MY AOL, a customizable portal that provides access to AOL.com's entire suite of features and allows users to add their favorite RSS feeds to the page. AOL has launched a beta version of MY AOL, a customizable portal that provides access to AOL.com’s entire suite of features and allows users to add their favorite RSS feeds to the page. The new personalized My AOL portal includes a My Feeds section which displays headlines from news, blog and other sites offering RSS feeds. Feeds are provided through a partnership with Feedster....

Nokia tracks traffic info with mass GPS feeds....

Once up and running, Beta 3 is a somewhat improved version, with welcome changes primarily in the RSS feed handling department. As members of Microsoft’s Team RSS blog , users who subcategorize the RSS feeds to which they subscribe in multiple folders now have the ability to refresh all of the feeds in a folder in one fell swoop, with a right-click menu command. And if you’re in the middle of reading a feed and you know that, when you click away from the feed, IE7 will mark it as read even if you haven’t finished reading it yet, there’s now a checkmark control in the upper right corner of the feed that you can uncheck, to help you remember to come back to the unread feed later. You can now leave an RSS feed in mid-read without IE7 thinking you’ve read it all....

Earlier this week, Facebook added "News Feeds" and "Mini News Feeds" which relayed member changes to anyone in the member’s friend list. The news feed contained any changes to a member’s pictures, relationships and other information ; the Mini News Feed contained changes to a member’s profile. The feeds also included time stamps of when the changes were made. Members have even formed the "Students Against Facebook News Feed" group within Facebook. He says new privacy features have been added and users can now block information and timestamps from hitting the feeds....

A more sensible location for RSS feed handler selection in Firefox 2.0. In the functionality department, Firefox’s treatment of RSS feeds is getting an upgrade, now that its principal competition now views RSS as a feature as well. In the updated Options dialog box, Feeds is now a category where it belongs. No longer do you have to search through the menu jungle to determine which application you’ve designated to manage your feeds or your live bookmarks (saved links that update themselves when an RSS feed is updated)....