RSS is becoming a highly pervasive information distribution channel in our rapidly expanding universe. Here is a new tool that allows PowerPoint presentations to easily integrate RSS feeds and news headlines. The Take-off RSS news reader from DataPoint gathers RSS news and sends them directly into a Mircosoft Access database. From there they can be easily pulled inside one or more presentation slides. Thus, you could have fresh and updated news feeds to show on your class opening presentation slide or you could display the latest relevant stock, or future prices for the very items that you have been covering in your presentation. [Robin Good]

Fred Wilson gets it. It seems he had an a-ha moment and explains how his feeds are receiving more traffic then his weblog. “I’ve got two to three times as many people who read my feed as those who read my blog. And the ratio is going up every day.” In an email conversation with Fred this week, he explained to me why he has ads on his weblog. He said, ‘I do it to understand how all of this stuff works.’ Great attitude to have. [Pheedo] [A VC]

Why are we still using email as a communication tool (for both personal and commercial uses)! If SPAM and Viruses are the deadly duo, is RSS the Superhero or the Right Spam Solution that could rescue us from the glut of SPAM and Viruses? [Pheedo]

Speciaal voor de freaks die maar geen genoeg kunnen krijgen van de resultaatlijsten, is er een nieuwe zoekmachine: DonkeyDo. De resultaten van Yahoo, MSN en Google worden naast elkaar gepresenteerd. Wat maakt DonkeyDo verder nog bijzonder? Ze filteren de gesponsorde resultaten eruit. Heeft Google er met DonkeyDo een concurrent van formaat heeft bijgekregen? [DonkeyDo.com]

Tv-zenders in heel Europa verliezen kijkers omdat consumenten steeds vaker de avonduren op internet doorbrengen. De BBC kiest daarom voor de aanval. Meer dan de helft van de internetgebruikers zegt minder tv te kijken ten gunste van het aantal uren dat ze op internet doorbrengen (56%). Met name ADSL of kabel is daarbij belangrijk, aldus Planet Multimedia. [Adformatie]