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Tracking Dropbox Updates

Dropbox is a popular solution for syncing your files across all of your PCs and even your smartphone. It’s useful for both personal and business purposes and you can even use it for free with up to 2GB of storage.

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Track Conferences Socially with Lanyrd

Lanyrd is a new site for tracking conferences and events that leverages your social networking circle to discover and monitor events that your friends are attending or presenting at. Of course you can simply browse conferences by location or topic, but the twist is the social media integration. Currently based on your Twitter friend list, when you login to Lanyrd through Twitter it discovers any conferences that your friends are involved in, as shown in screen below.

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In terms of using RSS, Lanyrd has, I think, a little ways to go. Each locale and topic has its own feeds that can subscribe to individually, but I don’t see a way to track what happens with an event through RSS. I would like to see that be implemented and for Lanyrd to make one, aggregated feed that sends my updates based on topics, locales and events that I’m interested in.

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Finally we offer Roadie, which tracks album releases rather than live show dates.

Elisa Miles – Author

With a logo that is remarkably similar to Bandsintown’s, Roadie also supports importing your favorite bands from last.fm.

James Fox – Founder

Once you’ve made a list of artists, there’s a big orange RSS button with the feed address for your use.

Irene Foxx – Director

What People Say

“So now we’ve completed the trifecta. First we told you how to use RSS to track TV episodes with mytvrss. Next was following book releases by author or publisher in RSS with Author Alerts.”
John HillDesigner
“Second is Bandsintown, which has a more flashy, graphic-intensive design than Tourfilter. As before, it has browse by artist and by venue, but doesn’t seem to have an RSS feed for all shows in a given city.”
Hillary RiceDesigner
“Now we round things out with three ways to follow album releases and live music events in your area. The first is Tourfilter, which I’ve used for many years.”
Julia MichelleDesigner
“It does provide a sort of tagcloud of upcoming shows, but I didn’t find a way to make use of that through RSS. On the other hand, Bandsintown does create an RSS feed for any show that you say you will or might go to. When looking at the page for specific event, click the I’m Going or Maybe button and it will add it to your calendar.”
James DeanDesigner
“With an elegantly simple site design that is reminiscent of Craig’s List, Tourfilter lets you browse by city, artist or venue. To follow anything from Tourfilter, look for the RSS link or little orange RSS icon, which is sometimes at the top and sometimes at the bottom of each page.”
Rodrigo AlonsoDesigner
“Then find the link to it on your profile page under Upcoming Shows on the top right. Bandsintown will also use your last.fm and Pandora to kickstart its recommendations for shows you might like. Recommendations will also appear in your profile’s feed.”
Mila JacksonDesigner

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Speaking of web comics, Comical is a Windows application that helps you stay up to date with many popular web comics. It doesn’t appear to be, strictly speaking, an RSS-based reader. But it does serve the same basic purpose of simply letting you know when a web comic that you follow has a new one online.

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Mark Campbell

DailyLit is an interesting website that will send you small segments of a book once a day via RSS or email. The chunks are pretty short and it will probably only take a few minutes to read each one. If making time for reading books a priority, this might be a way to make an automatic, daily habit out of it.

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Ben Johnson

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