Big news: IFTTT has just opened the Inoreader Channel to the public. Anyone can now create and share IFTTT Recipes based on Triggers and Actions in Inoreader.

Inoreader is a web-based content reader created by Innologica, a software development company from Bulgaria. Inoreader has been available since 2013. Feature-wise, Inoreader goes far beyond the basic functionality of typical RSS readers. What makes Inoreader stand out is the steady pace at which the development team has been adding powerful features, such as:

Inoreader offers event Triggers and Actions that you can use to construct IFTTT Recipes. If IFTTT is all new to you, then check the IFTTT WTF page for detailed information.

Triggers fire when something happens in an IFTTT channel. Examples of Inoreader Triggers could be the event of articles being starred for reading later (manual), or the event that a new Active Search result has become available (automatic). IFTTT Actions are the consequence of such events. Examples of Inoreader Actions could be to subscribe to an RSS feed, or to save and tag an article.

Of course Inoreaders capabilities really start to shine if you combine an Inoreader Trigger or Action with any of the 180+ available IFTTT Channels.

To get an idea of the possibilities, have a look at the 40+ ready-made Recipes created by the Inoreader team (click on the image to enlarge it):

The following 12 Triggers are available on the Inoreader Channel in IFTTT. Click on the hyperlink for each  Trigger for an overview of related IFTTT Recipes and to see the list of Recipe Ingredients that you can choose from.

A detailed overview of all Inoreader Triggers is available in the Triggers section of the Inoreader Channel page.

The following 5 Actions are available on the Inoreader Channel in IFTTT. Click on the hyperlink for each Action for an overview of related IFTTT Recipes and to see the list of Recipe Ingredients that you can choose from.

A detailed overview of all Inoreader Actions is available in the Actions section of the Inoreader Channel page.

Every Inoreader Trigger and Action comes with its own set of Ingredients. Some Triggers and Actions have many Ingredients to choose from, some only a few. To see the list of Recipe Ingredients that you can choose from, go to the overview of Inoreader Triggers and Actions and click on the name of a Trigger or an Action. Some common Inoreader Ingredients are Subscription URL, Subscription RSS URL, Article Title, Tag Name and Folder Name.

As an example, these are the Recipe Ingredients for the Trigger New starred article:

There are a few other feed readers that have a Channel of their own on IFTTT, notably the Feedly Channel and the NewsBlur Channel. Theres also a generic Feed Channel from IFTTT itself that solely functions as a Trigger – it offers no Actions. The Feed Channel Triggers let you create a Recipe based on a new feed item appearing in an RSS feed that you specify. Note that this Feed Channel does not allow you to create or add to an RSS feed.

Compared to these other IFTTT Channels, the Inoreader Channel stands out because of the broad variety and power of the available event triggers and actions.

As you can see from the sample recipes, Inoreader integrates with many popular services and platforms. The ones I personally like the most are the integrations with the IFTTT Channels from Buffer, Email Digest, Microsoft OneNote, Google Drive Spreadsheet, YouTube Watch Later and IFTTTs relatively new Do Button for iOS.

The Inoreader IFTTT Channel is already very balanced. If anything, Id suggest that every Trigger relating to articles, web pages, feeds or Bundles would allow optional filtering by custom keyword. A useful additional Inoreader Action could be to trigger a Push Notification in the Inoreader mobile apps, if thats possible.

Inoreader IFTTT Channel

Inoreader Blog, @Inoreader on Twitter, Inoreader on Facebook

Inoreader Notebook  freely accessible OneNote notebook with tips, tricks and resources about Inoreader, compiled by yours truly.

Ever since the Microsoft Office Mix team announced that their PowerPoint 2013 add-in was now supporting closed captions, Ive been wanting to try it out. Im a very strong proponent of producing videos #WithCaptions and I thank the Office Mix Team wholeheartedly for acknowledging the importance of offering this courteous feature.

When I talked to Microsofts Preston Peine about his #OneNoteWithPreston series, he challenged me to go for it with his most recent Office Mix presentation Class Notebooks with Shared Computers. It so happens that Preston through the Mix privacy settings made the .PPTX source of his Office Mix presentation available for remixing, so I could just download that .PPTX file and open it in my own copy of PowerPoint 2013.

For those with little time on their hands, heres the end result of my efforts:

There are multiple reasons to caption a video. I can think of these reasons:

Theres an upcoming movement that promotes video captioning. It uses the #WithCaptions hashtag on social media. For more inspiration, watch the video in this recent Upworthy article Pretty Much a No-Brainer.

The remainder of this post contains notes about my first experiences creating closed captions for Office Mix. I followed the development teams excellent instructions for closed captions on the Office Mix Uservoice Knowledge Base, basically boiling down to a few steps. If you want to follow along with the steps in this post, make sure you have performed these three:

If you havent read up about the new Office Mix closed-captions feature, I suggest you read up about it at these two links:

Deliver Compelling Presentations Using Office Mix Slide Notes and Closed Captioning (Office Mix Team for Microsoft Office Blogs, April 14, 2015)
Office Mix How to Add Closed Captions (Office Mix Team on Uservoice forum, continually updated tutorial)

To create the subtitles, I first uploaded the video version of my Office Mix to YouTube. Next, I opened the YouTube Video Manager onto the Subtitles and CC tab.

As you may know, YouTube provides automatic subtitles for videos in many languages, based on its speech recogntion technology. You can read more about this feature in YouTube Help Automatic Captions.

The Automatic Captions feature of YouTube is the reason I first uploaded my video to YouTube. You dont have to start from scratch, but can use the auto-generated captions provided by YouTube as your starting point.

Now, although YouTube does a fair job at speech recognition, the resulting subtitles still have to be checked and corrected manually one by one. The YouTube caption editor is very easy to use, and probably couldnt be made more efficient. Still, in my experience, correcting each of the captions remains a lot of work. It can help a great deal if you already have an accurate script available up front in my case, I didnt.

More about editing auto-captions here: YouTube Help Edit Captions

A tiny hurdle is that YouTube doesnt natively support the file format .TTML that is required by Office Mix, so I ended up exporting the subtitles intermediately in the .SRT format. See which subtitle formats are supported by YouTube, and why the .TTML subtitle format that is required by Office Mix isnt one of them, in YouTube Help Upload subtitles and closed captions

The next hurdle was how to convert YouTubes closed-captioning format .SRT to .TTML, the format required by Office Mix. I discovered that the free video captioning service Amara lets you add existing .SRT subtitle files to imported YouTube videos, and also lets you export those subtitles again in .DFXP format. The DFXP subtitle format turns out to be compatible with .TTML.

Two Amara help pages are relevant here:

How to add existing subtitles, captions, or transcripts to videos

How do I download subtitles and translations from a video on Amara?

Office Mix Online requires the import file for your subtitles to have the .TTML file extension. Now that turned out easy enough: if you simply edit the file extension of the .DFXP file (downloaded from Amara) and rename it to .TTML, Office Mix Online will accept it.

Have you tried your hand at creating closed captions for Office Mix yet? How did you do it?

Dynamic OPML Subscriptions in feed reader InoReader
let you automatically synchronize your RSS subscriptions
with web-based reading lists. (1 / 6)

This is a long read. If you first want to get the gist of it, scan the paragraph headings and the pull quotes real quick. I hope you return here to find the golden nuggets.

People maintain categorized lists of web sites for many reasons. Combined with an RSS reader those reading lists let you keep track of news headlines and blog posts very efficiently. You may have come across reading lists in the sidebar of weblogs, where they are usually referred to as blogrolls, or just links.

If you export your list of favorite websites in the OPML file format, you can then share your reading list with other people. They can import the list into their preferred feed reader. There are quite a few ways anyone can create such an OPML file. This article provides links to various resources related to OPML, how to create OPML files and how to share them.

OPML has become the de facto standard
for the convenient exchange of reading lists. (2 / 6)

OPML files are incredibly useful: by selecting several OPML files curated by topic experts you can quickly construct a personal news center around topics of interest. Regrettably the mechanism of importing a reading list has one major disadvantage: as soon as you add a reading list, it has in fact become a stale copy of the original. Future changes to the original reading list will not automatically be reflected in your copy of that list. To prevent this, OPML files should be automatically synchronized.

This is where the new InoReader Dynamic Subscriptions feature comes in: it allows you to create dynamic subscriptions from any web-based reading list. When the original source of the reading list is updated, so does the InoReader version.

The first step is to import the reading list using the OPML file’s web address. After that, InoReader automatically keeps your copy of the reading list synchronized with its original source.

As you can also see from Synchronization option in this screenshot, InoReader can synchronize all changes to the OPML file (new additions and removals), or just new additions.

InoReader synchronizes all changes to the OPML file (3 / 6)

If a change in the remote OPML is detected, that event will trigger a notification event to indicate that one or more feeds have been added or removed:

In my experience adding a subscription is a very fast process. It mostly depends on whether InoReader has imported the feeds at some time in the past. On import, the feed reader checks whether the OPML file and individual feeds are valid. It also checks how active a feed is. Use dashboard gadgets to display lists of inactive feeds and of failing feeds:

All InoReader users (Basic, Plus and Pro levels) have access to the new dynamic OPML feature. Refresh frequencies depend on the user level, from once a day for the Basic level to once every hour for the for-pay levels. OPML subscriptions can also be manually refreshed.

The new dynamic OPML feature is available to all InoReader users (4 / 6)

Like many other RSS platforms and feed readers on the market, InoReader lets you publish OPML files. What makes the InoReader approach different, is that it allows you to make web-based OPML files available for individual feed folders.

InoReader offers URLs for RSS, for Web view and for OPML
at the folder level (5 / 6)

You can then share the public URLs with others. This screenshot shows my Note-taking feed folder. It contains 39 feeds. Three public views are available:

Many people invest their time and energy into building and maintaining reading lists on topics they are most passionate about. Its sad to see some of these efforts abandoned. However, once the reading lists are published and dynamically synchronized on the web, their authors can now be sure that other people always have access to the most up-to-date version of their reading lists. They will be more likely to keep their lists current, and all reading list users benefit.

You can find OPML files in various places on the web, sometimes deeply tucked away. A large collection of OPML files categorized by keyword is freely available on Alltop.com.

To get started with Alltop’s OPML files, first select the desired topic of interest from their website. There is a convenient full-page overview of all Alltop topics. For the purpose of this article, lets choose Filmmaking.

The base URL for the keyword filmmaking on Alltop is http://filmmaking.alltop.com/, and the accompanying OPML file is at http://filmmaking.alltop.com/opml. Using this URL as a template, you can easily construct OPML files built from tons of relevant news sources. Alltop founder Guy Kawasaki explained the feature in 2009: How to Change the World: How to Use Alltop to Add Content to Your Website, Blog, and Feed Reader.

If you use Google to find OPML files, note that you may also stumble across OPML files that cannot be used with an RSS feed reader because they contain outlines of plain text, not references to RSS feeds and their home pages.

 FeedShare deserves to become part of the
OPML- and feed-sharing ecosystem (6 / 6)

Early 2014 FeedShare http://feedshare.net was launched, a promising web service that is dedicated to the exchange of RSS feeds and OPML files.  Anyone can submit their categorized reading lists to this website. Browse for topics at http://feedshare.net/tags.

See the screenshot below. This is how I submitted the OPML file for the RSS News Radar project to FeedShare.net. Sharing your reading list with the world cant get much simpler than this. Theres no sign-up required, just two fields to fill in a title and an OPML source. As soon as youve submitted your reading list, youll be given a unique URL that allows you to customize the reading list details and attach topic tags to it.

Shortly after FeedShare launched in January 2014, tech blogger Louis Gray wrote this review: Feedshare.net Debuts for OPML, RSS Feed Swapping.

The FeedShare project is open-source. Original developer Arne @Holzenburg kindly invites you to join the effort and take the project to the next level. To turn it into an ecosystem for developers and users, FeedShare needs an API. Within the context of this article it is also relevant to note that once youve uploaded your OPML reading list to FeedShare.net, that copy itself does not magically get updated.

If you have an InoReader account, then you can start creating topic reading lists straight away. Most other RSS readers offer an easy method to export all of your feed subscriptions in a single list. Some will host the OPML file for you through a direct URL, others do generate the output but don’t do the hosting for you. They require that you copy and paste the OPML output and save it to a file on your local hard drive. In that case you need to upload the local OPML file to a web-based file server, for example to OneDrive, DropBox, or Google Drive, so that the file becomes accessible online.

Make sure you enable sharing on your OPML file. Next, while you yourself are logged off from your feed reader, double check that the OPML file is indeed accessible through its web address and test it with your InoReader account.

Tumblr lets you create an OPML file of your own subscriptions. Log on to your Tumblr account and visit the page https://www.tumblr.com/following
LiveJournal offers the same feature but with a rather significant twist: LiveJournal lets anyone create an OPML file from anyone else’s Friends List. You don’t need to be logged on. Just substitute the username in this URL: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/opml.bml?user=exampleusername.

Update June 9, 2014: You can now your own web-based OPML reading list to the new, public resource OPML Reading Lists on the Web. Note that the spreadsheet has multiple tabs. It is intended as a collaborative initiative. Please feel free to share the link and to retweet the Twitter announcement.

What #OPML reading list will you follow? Check the up-to-date lists at the OPML Reading Lists on the Web editable spreadsheet, feel free to add yours!

Marjolein Hoekstra (@CleverClogs) June 9, 2014

Another way to create an OPML file is by starting with a simple list of websites that offer RSS feeds and using a web service to convert that list to an OPML file. Here are some OPML conversion tools and resources that make that process a lot easier:

Once youve created your OPML file, make sure that its accessible through a web URL.

Now that you know where to find OPML files and how to create and share your own, why not grasp the opportunity and put them to good use? A fine use case for OPML files is to build a Google Custom Search Engine on the fly. Try this TechMeme Leaderboard Search Engine, based on the Techmeme Leaderboard.

If you observe the URL in your browser address bar, you can easily see how to substitute your own OPML file. Creating a custom search engine is just that simple. A powerful aspect of Google Custom Search Engines is that they show search results from the entire archive of a website not just the recent history from its RSS feed. Google Custom Search Engines can be refined in many ways. To learn more about these options, visit and explore the Google Custom Search Engine website.

Dynamic reading list support isnt newly invented by InoReader. Full credit for the concept goes to two pioneers in RSS, notably Dave Winer, and the deceased RSS reader Blogbridge.

Over the last decade or so, Dave Winer has continually been pushing the concept and potential of synchronized reading lists. Added info (thanks @DaveWiner): 12 Years ago, he implemented the feature in web publishing product Radio Userland.

His most recent outlining project Fargo supports subscribing to web-based OPML files by inclusion. Read how this feature works in the blogpost Subscribe to OPML Lists in Fargo (May 22nd, 2014), as explained by fervent Fargo user Jeffrey @Kishner.

See also these two relevant posts by Winer from 2013:

Care to Share Your OPML? (April 2013)

Feed reader developers heres an easy way to differentiate your service and have your users love you even more (August 2013)

By the end of 2005, a full-fledged version of dynamic reading lists was implemented in BlogBridge. Cross-platform, open-source and an info-junkies wet dream, Blogbridge unfortunately succumbed to the heavy pull of Google Readers gravitation.

Although as a product it is no longer available, the BlogBridge blog archive is still reminiscent of what it means to develop a top-notch, user-focused news aggregator and what hurdles the developers needed to overcome. See this post from November 2005, in which BlogBridge founder Pito Salas announced the upcoming reading lists feature in Reading Lists: Major new capability, coming soon.

Here is my wish list:

1. Right now, InoReader offers OPML files for individual folders and for a user’s entire subscription list. A logical in-between product would be to offer OPML files for bundles a custom combination of several folders.

2. While in the InoReader user interface, people should be able to add new OPML subscription lists hosted on FeedShare.net. Similarly, they themselves should be able to publish their reading lists to FeedShare.net and make them publicly available there.

3. InoReader should add a recommendation system for subscription lists. Once the system understands what topics a user is interested in, it could recommend suggested reading lists.

InoReader is a fast and powerful web-based RSS service that has become increasingly popular over the past year. It has become my preferred feed reader in early 2014.

For InoReader, the frequent operations of sorting, tagging, renaming and organizing feeds and folders are frictionless actions. Productivity features such as in-context search, Active Search feeds and feed notification rules all work smoothly and fast. The collection of InoReader dashboard gadgets is growing by the week. The service has a strong focus on social features such as feed-item tagging, favoriting and commenting and of course integrates with dozens of web services. You can even configure your own custom Send To apps, or become the publisher of a channel that broadcasts among your InoReader peers.

Unique about InoReader is also that it provides public HTML / RSS / OPML output at the folder level. Lastly, Ive personally experienced that the InoReader support team truly excels at dealing with support questions and feature requests. Im honored and very grateful that the InoReader development team embraced my suggestion to implement Dynamic OPML Subscriptions.

On Twitter, you can follow @InoReader, theres an InoReader Facebook page. Of course theres also an InoReader Blog: (RSS | Atom). Both the blog and the Changelog (RSS) are updated at least weekly.

In just a few steps musicians can benefit from applying QR codes to tag their printed sheet music. The QR codes enrich the score they are studying by linking it to relevant online information, such as recorded performances and background information. A smartphone capable of scanning QR codes is essential in this method.

In my spare time I very much like to study playing the piano. I particularly get passionate about specific challenging pieces from composers such as Schubert, Grieg and Chopin. Although my old piano teachers probably wouldnt have approved, I usually start by locating online recordings of these favorite compositions. That way I get a feel of what they ideally should or could sound like straight from the beginning.

I have found QR codes to be a powerful and versatile instrument [!] to facilitate the process of familiarizing oneself with a musical piece. To start with a spoiler and to pique your interest, heres a picture of what a piano score might look like with a QR code attached to it:

In this post Id like to present a simple outline of what steps to take and what preparations are required to get you started. As you can see from the screenshot, I picked the romantic song Butterfly from Edvard Griegs 10-volume Lyric Pieces.

At some point youll notice that I link my QR code samples to recordings on YouTube. Once you understand the process, you can easily substitute any other service of your liking.

If you feel inclined to do so, please feel free to scan the QR code on the right to get a feel for the possibilities. Otherwise, hang in for a quick three-step tutorial:

The Three-step Process

Lets assume that youve created a QR code using Delivr.com. Heres what the Delivr QR preview-and-share interface looks like:

Apart from creating a bare-bones QR code, Delivr.com also allows you to create full-fledged mobile landing pages. You do need to create an account with the service to access additional features, such as descriptions, hyperlinks, a comments section and social-media sharing links. Heres a screenshot of what the Grieg Butterfly landing page looks like after someone scans my Grieg Butterfly QR code. The blue parts are hyperlinks:

Pretty cool, dont you think?

Users

Several types of users might benefit from using QR codes:

Additional Ideas for Possible Target Links

Besides linking to a YouTube video, you could also consider any of the following music-related target pages. Maybe the following list inspires you to find your own sources. Where possible, Ive linked to web pages and services related to Griegs Butterfly piece. Note that many web services now offer mobile-friendly interfaces to their sites, for example Mobile YouTube and Mobile Wikipedia.

Further Reading about QR Code Technology

I have found these resources to be quite helpful and interesting:

Conclusion

I hope this explanation inspires you to experiment with QR codes. Maybe youd rather use a different QR code generator, or a different QR code scanner on your phone—it doesnt matter because the mechanism of linking a real-world object to the online world remains the same. Do feel free to contribute your ideas in the comments section.

Twitter FreshLinks Bookmarklet

FreshLinks is a simple browser bookmarklet I created that you can use to get a quick understanding if a Twitter user has recently been sharing any useful links.

To install, drag or save this link to your browser bookmarks toolbar: FreshLinks

A text button labeled FreshLinks should appear on your bookmarks toolbar. Now, first open someones Twitter user page, mine for example: @CleverClogs. To filter my updates and display just links that Im sharing, click on the FreshLinks bookmarklet button.

This is a before-and-after sketch of the effect of using the bookmarklet:

As a bonus, the script excludes retweets and wont show updates fed into the Twitter stream through TwitterFeed.

Im obviously curious for your constructive feedback, please tweet it to the attention of @CleverClogs.

Last modified July 18th, 2009, 4:22 PM GMT +2

In Meet Nick Halstead the Founder of Tweetmeme from July 14th, Loic Le Meur publishes a five-minute video interview with TweetMeme founder Nick Halstead. One particular fragment of the interview strikes me with disbelief. My post here explains why I am less than amused.

At just after 4 minutes, Loic asks Nick:

Where did you get the idea, for the first time?

Nick responds:

We, err, we just looked at Twitter, we, the, err , a year ago we actually had a first pass of the website, and we kind of let it languish, and then we saw how big Twitter was getting in January and we took all the technology from the bit built in the company for the year before, and we just took all that and rebuilt it, really, you know, really quickly.

Now, in contrast to the video, look at this compilation of several tweets from the very early days of TweetMemes inception, starting January 5th, 2008:

CleverClogs I sincerely hope @gaberivera wont come up with the idea to create @tweetmeme, Then again someone else might.Account name still available 05 Jan 2008 from web nickhalstead @cleverclogs tweetmeme.com now registered what shall we do with it?

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