Recently there has been too much of a fuzz about the decline, the ignoration if you want of RSS.

As a person that lives and breathes RSS and as a member of favit – a StartUP that not only built one of the best RSS Readers in the world and made it real-time even before Google did. I firmly believe that RSS is well alive and most importantly – continuing its role as the brick and mortar of the Internet.

When glass started covering the facades of all the buildings around us, no one proclaimed the death of brick, stone or iron as building materials, right?

It is exactly the same case with the RSS, twitter & facebook. RSS is the pillar – the pipe that relentlessly delivers fresh content (in real-time, thank you PubSubHubBub!) and powers thousands of twitter bots & real accounts and applications like NetworkedBlogs.

Services like Twitterfeed are processing millions of feeds and pushing them automatically to Twitter & Facebook, Superfeedr has seen almost 5 BN articles pushed via its hubs… still thinking that RSS is in decline?

If so, power up your iPad get the now free Pulse reader, then FlipBoard or the Mashable application – they all have RSS going through their veins and the list goes on and on, both on the iPad, the iPhone and on the Android. So not only is RSS not dead, it became even sexier and spread to virtually device – the SonyEriccson’s Live View for example, it comes with Mail, SMS and… RSS application – now you can read feeds on your wrist!

By now you should have felt it – RSS is not dead or dying, it is doing its job as any good protocol would do and leaving all the perks to the platforms and the applications that are able to make the most out of it.

On the right you can see how favit thanks to, yes – RSS and our own advanced reader technology that identifies and groups all actions (shares, comments, retweets) to a certain item underneath it, managed to show me what I call “annotations” from Scoble, Ryan, MG, the list goes on and on under the RSS War article from which such a huge debate sprung and which inspired this article too.

Thank you RSS and favit for bringing order to my twitter chaos!

At the 3rd of December, favit participated in the Regional KIS 100 event in Athens, Greece co-hosted by the Europe Unlimited platform,  CEED Bulgaria & Atlantis Consulting.

The event took place in the premises of the Corallia  Cluster Initiative (the co-working space that brought together the team behind BlindType – a touchscreen typing start up acquired by Google).

We are extremely proud that favit was among the 9 highly innovative companies (together with one more from our fund – NEVEQ – MaYoMo) in the region selected to be presenting during the event.  We showed our mobile applications, go to market strategy, immediate needs and future plans in a short video. You can view the slides below:

The iPad application sprung big interest among the public and we have been immediately approached by marketing and advertising companies interested in our white label solution. Further details on it as well as applications teasers and screenshots will be released soon, so stay tuned!

Yesterday, June 11th was a great day for the Internetz! One of the best and most influential tech blogs – TechCrunch turned 5!

Happy, happy birthday TechCrunch!

To commemorate the event,  TechCrunch fans from around the globe gathered, drank beer and talked technology.

At the favit office, in Sofia, Bulgaria we organized a TechCrunch MeetUp as well, and spent more than 4 hours (we left after midnight!) talking geeky stuff and drinking beer (from green bottles mainly)

Check out the 3 videos, we have recorded with some passionate TechCrunch readers as present for the TechCrunch birthday:

The videos are all HD thanks for the flip device that we won at the first TechCrunch Disrupt event in NYC – what better occasion to put in action!

Once again, happy birthday TechCrunch and continue to disrupt the status quo, we like you that way!

We have now completed the upgrade procedure to the new favit, well almost…

There are some small things missing and during the next few days we will be fixing a lot of stuff, starting with:

Counters in the sections:

• Direct Messages
• My Discussions
• Read Later

Saved links importation into the Read Later functionality of the new favit.

Comments: publishing and replies, editing and deletion.

Twitter Integration and sharing.

Unique URL for each entity, plus restoring the favit url shortener fav.ly

Not all of the imported groups and feeds are showing up as we expected, so we will be fixing this as well, shortly all feeds will start coming.

There are also many other things, big and small that we will be polishing and adding in order to ensure a much better favit experience for all of you.

Check this post for updates on the progress, or report bugs and feedback of any kind in the comments or by messaging Martin – our community manager, the @favit is also an option.

Thanks for the understanding and enjoy the new favit!

Although our demo table at the first TechCrunch Disrupt event in New York City was quite small, that was not an obstacle at all in presenting and discussing the favit beta with the Disrupt guests, journalists, fellow exhibitors and of course, potential investors.

We were extremely pleasantly surprised to learn that the people at the Disrupt conference and those following the event from around the world voted up favit in the Evelyn Rusli‘s call for Start Up Alley participants interviews.

So here it is. The Charming Evelyn asking our CEO – Konstantin Hristov to describe the service and our plans about disrupting the status quo, enjoy the video and watch the entire Start Up Alley Day 2 Interviews with better quality at lifestream.com (the favit part starts at 21:45)