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Adding an RSS Feed to your web page is a very simple thing with .

Simply get the address of the RSS Feed that you would like to display on your site - for example here is a RSS feed from a website called TechCrunch - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch

Then either add a new page or edit one. From there in the WYSIWYG editor simply type in the following code.

[rss]paste the url for your RSS Feed[/rss]

Example:

For example if we wanted to add the RSS Feed from the TechCrunch website http://digg.com/rss/index.xml into our website then all we would do is type in

[rss]http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch[/rss]

The result is below:

• Help Us By Taking The 2009 Web Application Survey

  The tough thing about being a startup is that no one is willing to share their numbers with you. With that in mind, we'd like to announce the 2009 TechCrunch Web App Survey. It's an (optionally) anonymous survey where we can all share a bit of data about our userbase, traffic, financials and more. The more you're willing to share, the more you're going to learn from everyone else. The whole goal of this project is to shed some light on a subject that very few people are willing to talk about it publicly. It will help web startups understand how they compare to other companies, and then make decisions accordingly. Here are the Questions:

• Facebook Launches One-Way Mailbox API. Woo hoo.

  Facebook is certainly pumping on all cylinders this week. Yesterday came news that the site had acquired FriendFeed, and this morning it proposed a new Terms of Service. Now Facebook has announced some additions to its API, including a new Mailbox API and support for Notifications in third party apps. The biggest addition

• Facebook Proposes To Ban Sponsored Status Updates

  Today Facebook has posted a note to its blog indicating that it's updating its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities

• After Ten Years In Business, MyWebGrocer Raises $13 Million In Series A

  It is not often that a company waits ten years to take its first venture capital. MyWebGrocer, which was founded in 1999, raised $13 million today in a series A investment from the Stripes Group, a private equity firm in New York City. This is definitely a late-stage growth round. Stripes is a private equity firm that likes to invest only in profitable companies, and there was even an investment bank involved (Montgomery & Co.) as an adviser to MyWebGrocer. Guess who wants to lead any eventual IPO? MyWebGrocer, which is based in Vermont, was initially funded by its founder Rich Tarrant and then from operations as it grew to power the websites of 5,000 grocery stores across the country. Now it is looking to expand more aggressively, which is why it raised the series A.

• Trampoline

  Everyone knows how hard it is to raise funding right now. But the European VC market has been even more abysmal than the US one of late, with first round fundings thin on the ground and down-rounds aplenty. So one startup has decided to jump ship from the VC merry-go-round and seek a 'third way' for itself. Trampoline Systems, specialists in "social analytics" for companies, launched in the UK and the US last year but a search for a new $8 million round after an initial $5 million round in 2007 from Tudor Investments drew a blank (Tudor was hit badly by the crunch). So they turned to "crowdfunding" using a legally vetted web site to pull in investors - and the efforts are bearing fruit. Two weeks after launching the initiative they've now closed a $543,000 round.

• Video: Aaron Sorkin Talks Facebook Movie. Unsure Of Why He

  I'm still finding it a little hard to believe that Aaron Sorkin (he of A Few Good Men, he of The West Wing) is writing the screenplay for the upcoming Facebook movie. But not only is he, but upon hearing the proposal (based on Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires"), Sorkin claims it's the fastest he's "ever said 'yes' to anything." He claims he was just 3 pages into the 14-page proposal about the book, when he knew he would do it. But it gets better. "If you asked my why I said 'yes', I'm not sure that I can give you a clear answer," Sorkin says.

• Tr.im: We Were Just Kidding About Cutting You Off. Also, We

  We don't know what is going on over at Nambu, but it doesn't smell good. Today, just days after shutting down Tr.im and saying all support would cease at the end of the year, killing all the links shortened with the service, they have reversed course. "Nambu will keep tr.im operating going forward, indefinitely, while we continue to consider our options in regards to tr.im

• Google Shifts Ads (To The Left)

  Does Google's search results page feel a little more crowded to you? The ads which used to run down along the right-hand edge of the page are now shifted over to the left, as if to declare, "Hey, look at us!" Maybe this will increase the number of times ads are clicked on. They are certainly more noticeable. The ads now seem like they are now grouped together with the organic results, whereas before they were shunted off to the side (a legacy of the early days of Google when the purity of organic results was protected as much as possible from being sullied by dirty ads). In fact, on my screen the ads take center stage, with a thin line down the middle forming the slimmest barrier separating them from the natural results. I wonder if this design change has something to do with the popularity of wider screens. But the line and central placement of the ads also conveniently draw the eye.

• Racevine Lets You Review Races You

  You post one shoe review and the runners come out of the woodwork. Take Racevine for example. This service allows you to search for and review races. We're talking everything: Ironmans (Ironmen?), triathlons, marathons, sprints. All kinds of stuff. Want to know if the Wharf to Wharf run is worth racing? It's there. The New York Marathon? Bango.

• Another Day, Another Twitter Outage

  Just as users and the entire Twitter developer ecosystem was getting back on its feet after last week's multi-day outage, Twitter goes down again. The outage last week, which was caused by a DDOS attack, started at around 6 am California time on Friday and went through the weekend. And even when Twitter had periodic uptime, third party apps were still shut down. As usual, we provide a handy list of things to do while fretting about Twitter. Of course, you could choose to work, since it is the middle of a business day, but let's not go crazy just yet.

• Amanda Hesser And Merrill Stubbs Crowdsource a Cookbook With Food52

  These days, more and more books have accompanying Websites and smart authors even try to attract readers online before the book is even published. Sometimes they even try to enlist those potential readers into contributing to the book (for free). Brooklyn food writers Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs are crowdsourcing their next cookbook on a site that just launched in private beta called Food52 (it will open up on September 15, but you can sign up now for an invite at the site). Hesser is a food critic for the New York Times and an author of several cookbooks (including Cooking For Mr. Latte, The Cook And The Gardener, and the upcoming New York Times Cookbook). Stubbs is a freelance food writer and recipe tester. The Food52 project will result in its own cookbook to be published by the Harper Studio (which is also publishing the Gary Vaynerchuk ten-book library). Each recipe in the book will come from the Food52 community. "We want it to be a cooking site where the users feel that they have a voice," Hesser tells me in her first interview about the project. The site and the book will appeal to anyone who ever wanted to write their own cookbook but never had the time. But it won't be a free-for-all. Hesser and Stubbs will make editorial decisions with give-and-take from the site's members. To guide the community, every week two themes will be presented which will act as a call for recipes. This week's themes (they are really assignments) are "Your Best Grilled Pork Recipe" and "Your Best Watermelon Recipe." Anyone can submit their favorite recipes, along with photos or videos. Then Hesser and Stubbs select the most promising ones, test them, and choose the best two for each theme. They present these back to the Food52 members, who get to vote which one will make it into the cookbook.

• $4.6 Million For Newly Profitable Simply Hired

  Silicon Valley based job listing search engine Simply Hired is announcing profitability and a new round of financing - $4.6 million from new investor IDG Ventures and existing investor Foundation Capital. The company is also announcing four quarters of positive cash flow. Phil Sanderson, managing director at IDG Ventures, joins the company's Board of Directors. Simply Hired has now raised a total of $22.3 million.

• Hands On Video of the Zune HD

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• The EPA Gives Could Give the Chevy Volt a 230 MPG Rating. What?

  You know that strange viral marketing campaign popping up around the Interwebs as of late? Well, we know what it means now thanks to GM's CEO Fritz Henderson and it's somewhat impressive - and a tad dubious. GM is claiming that under the new EPA guidelines, the Chevy Volt will hit 230 MPG. The Volt would be the first car to ever earn a triple digit number. Take a look at the current high-mileage kings and that 230 MPG rating really sinks in. The EPA handed the Prius a 51 MPG city ranking and the Insight a 41 MPG. The EPA says that the Ford Fusion hybrid can get 41 in the city and the Camary Hybrid 40 MPG in the city. With hyper-mileage tactics like killing the engine to coast down hills and fancy pedal work, a few obsessed drivers have pushed a few of these cars into triple digit territory.

• In a Move I

  For years you've been using the well-supported, ubiquitous file format called MP3. It's an international standard, it works just fine in every media player, and other universally-accepted formats are in place for the album artwork, lyrics, and what have you. Sounds like you're ready for a new, unified format that no one has ever heard of and, if introduced five or six years ago, might have been revolutionary! Universal, Sony, Warner, and EMI are all throwing their weight behind the CMX format, soon to be the laughing stock of the internet.Oh, did I mention that Apple, who makes like 200% of the MP3 makers in the USA, is making their own competing format, which pretty much guarantees that CMX will only be usable by things like Windows Media Player?

• Video: Hitler Is Not Pleased About Facebook

  Seriously, these never get old. An enterprising soul has tonight re-created the pivotal Hitler scene from the movie Downfall, but done so with subtitles explaining why Hilter is so mad that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. This meme seems be done for just about everything on the web these days, but this one is particularly good because it's full of good insider-y references. And it closely echoes some of the actual backlash against the news today which played out on FriendFeed.

• Apple Planning Some Super Secret Social App?

  Again, this is nothing but a very vague rumor for the time being, but it's also very interesting. Following up on its iTunes 9 rumors, Boy Genius Report claims to have new details from the same trusted source about what iTunes 9, and specifically the social aspects of it, will entail. As expected, the tipster says you'll be able to broadcast songs you're listening to out to various social networks. But the really interesting thing is the reference to some new social application that Apple is supposedly getting ready to launch. It's not clear at all if this would be a desktop app or an iPhone app, but it is said to be something that consolidates your various social networking activity from around the web into one place.

• Delicious Creator Quietly Launches Threaded Twitter Conversations

  Joshua Schachter is best known as the creator of Delicious. But a few years after he sold it to Yahoo in 2005, he left the company and joined Google. Since then, he's been known to speak his mind about Delicious' overall direction (which he doesn't seem to like), and it's pretty clear that he still has the desire to create. And that's exactly what he did tonight, quietly launching a new service he's developed called a tiny thread. The idea is simple, take tweets and thread them together to form conversations, adding context. This works by using the a tiny thread site to both start new conversation threads, and add your comments to old ones. After authenticating via OAuth, your comment is then sent back to Twitter, with a link back to the a tiny thread conversation page.

• Yellix Pulls Facebook Contacts And Their Status To Your Cell, As They Call

  Today Yellix, a self-funded mobile startup from Vienna hits the crowded mobile app market. Yellix offers an interesting way of connecting your Facebook friends with your mobile device. By installing the free Facebook application onto your cell phone your Facebook friends are matched with your cell contacts - in real time. There are a number of apps out there that do this, but few pull real-time info from Facebook. It's not entirely clear how this is done technically but the app runs on Android, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian or Windows Mobile platforms. When you get a call the app syncs with the Facebook app and immediately lets you see who is calling, their Facebook profile picture and the last status update of that person.

• RXVantage Taps Into Massive Pharma Sales/Marketing Budgets

  New startup RXVantage is releasing a really smart SaaS product into a huge market - drug and medical device marketing. Selling stuff to doctors is really big business - $60+ billion a year in the U.S. alone is spent annually in marketing to physicians by pharmaceutical and medical device companies. 175,000 reps visit offices and hospitals 110 million times per year to pitch their wares. Today, pharma reps drop by offices in person just to schedule an office meeting with the physician down the road. They often do sample drops of medications and do a little pitching while the doctor signs for them. The average drop meeting lasts 22 seconds, for which a rep might wait up to 2 hours. Top prescribers are visited by more than 100 reps per week, and meetings are scheduled as much as a year in advance. Enter RXVantage.

• Dell to Launch China-only Mobile Phone After All, Calls It

  We broke the news on Dell launching a China-only cell phone on Sunday, and today major Chinese news portal 163.com reports the device is on its way: What Dell will be offering in China is an Android-powered "Ophone" called the mini3i. China Mobile, the world's biggest carrier, will distribute the device and plans to launch it as early as "in the middle of this month" (which could mean any day this week). China Mobile plans to establish Ophone as a new brand and sell a number of devices from different makers under it. Apart from Dell, Lenovo and another Chinese company called Dopod [CN] (aka HTC) are expected to release Ophones in the next few days.

• YC-Funded JobSpice Makes Resumes Web Friendly, With A Facebook Co-Founder At The Helm

  When most people are faced with the task of building their resume, they fire up Microsoft Word, trudge through a few generic looking templates, and export their page to HTML. Usually this results in something that's either boring, weird looking (because of formatting issues), or just plain ugly. JobSpice, a new startup that's launching tonight, is looking to help users build web-friendly resumes that are as good looking as they are easy to customize. JobSpice comes with a good pedigree: it is part of the latest batch of Y Combinator funded startups, and is co-founded by Andrew McCollum

• Caffeine: It

  Search Engines are like sharks: If they stop moving, they die. Okay, I'm not even sure if that's really true about sharks. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's not. But still, it is true about search engines, in that they have to keep innovating and updating, if for nothing else to stay ahead of spammers. Google, as the king of search engines, obviously has been doing that constantly throughout the years. Some of the changes are noticeable, but most are subtle tweaks on a rolling basis. But today, the company has begun testing a new engine for its search product that's a big enough change that it felt compelled to let the world know about it. Codenamed "Caffeine", it promises to "push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions."

• Ooyala Brings In Jay Fulcher As New CEO

  Last month we reported that Silicon Valley based Ooyala, a service that manages video streaming for websites, was looking for a new CEO to take the business to the next level. Today they'll be announcing that new CEO - former Agile Software CEO Jay Fulcher is now the CEO of Ooyala, and his first day on the job was today. Founding CEO Bismarck Lepe will remain on board as President of Product Strategy. From my post last month:

• Nambu Wants $80K-$100K For Tr.im, Considers Shutting Down Its Twitter Client

  Earlier today, we reported on Bit.ly offering Tr.im parent Nambu Network, a couple of ways to ensure all its links don't die when the service stop supporting them at the end of the year. Nambu rejected those, as it is instead looking to sell. Now we know the price it's asking for: As of right now, they're seeking something between $80,000 and $100,000, three separate sources have told us. Not surprisingly, all three are balking at that price. After all, the main reason Nambu is giving for folding Tr.im is that it can't compete against Bit.ly when Twitter is actively promoting and using it as its default link shortener. Still, several other parties have reached out to us to say that they are interested in purchasing the service (though they did not appear to know the price tag).