No label deal? No zillion-dollar budget? No problem. Rappers like Soulja Boy and Lil Wayne proved that artists don’t need publicity tours, a promo staff, or billboards in Times Square. And now Crooked I, Mickey Factz, Blu, and Jay Electronica have blown up—with little more than laptops and IP addresses. Chris Yuscavage chases the RSS feed.

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A 5-star rating web 2.0 widget from www.Web2Services.com can easily be embedded in a Zoho document and then shared with co-workers or friends. The results of the ratings are aggregated into an RSS feed that you can constantly monitor from your RSS reader.

Snackr is a pretty cool AIR app for displaying RSS feeds as a scrolling ticker, and now it’s integrated with Google Reader. Just feed list though, not read/unread info.

There?s not much I can say that hasn?t already been said about Shure?s triple driver E500 earphones. Every review I read says that these are the best sounding earphones ever made if you can afford them. I got a pair for myself and these earphones retail for $549 but before you get discouraged and move on to the next RSS feed, read on for an in dept

These are the best branding feeds that you can find.

These are the best branding feeds that you can find.

Feeds is a native iPhone and iPod Touch application aimed at bringing RSS feeds to the masses. Feeds provides simple, intuitive ways to add feeds via direct link, top feeds, search or browsing by category.

Feeds is a native iPhone and iPod Touch application aimed at bringing RSS feeds to the masses. Feeds provides simple, intuitive ways to add feeds via direct link, top feeds, search or browsing by category.

What is rss? Do you know how to use it or set it up? Well that’s what we are gonna talk about to help you the reader stay up to date with all your favorite news and blogs.