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Feed Icons go bye bye!

As some of you may have read, Microsoft is playing nice with the web (for once) and adopting Mozilla’s “Syndicate” image as their RSS button. This is a good step toward further interoperability and generally making things less confusing for those who arent so RSS-savvy, as well as finally getting rid of those ugly-as-sin orange RSS buttons (ugly rss button).

Instead, what we use now is this:

Courtesy of mattbrett.com

However, realizing that it’s still that ugly orange, Matt has been kind enough to create a ton of downloadable versions of the icon in EPS, GIF, AI, PSD formats, for your own custom color coding.

They’re all available at FeedIcons.com

I’ve already switched over, as you can see from the menu bar.

Bout freakin time, MySpace

MySpace just added RSS feeds for their user blogs.

The format is as follows:

http://blog.myspace.com/blog/rss.cfm?friendID=####### where the #’s are the numeric friend id (NOT your custom username).

Now if only they’d add the ability to sync my real blog to my MySpace blog, like Friendster has done for months now.

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