Friday, July 31, 2009

Build your own RSS Feed based on your favourite sites

RSS feeds are a trend in the Internet world. Although thy are based on old well known technologies, only the last few years people started using them exhaustively. Web based aggregators, like Google Reader, made our lives easier. I know people who don't even go to the news sites or the blogs they follow. They subscribe to their RSS feeds and then use an aggregator to gain a full pictures of the updates.

A nice idea is to create your own RSS feed. Well, I know that your blog's hosting platform creates it for you. I don't mean that one. What about creating a feed with the pages you like, or you want to suggest to other, or even keep track of them like a online bookmark.

There is a free hosting page for such RSS feeds. If you use Firefox the procedure is absolutely simple. Visit FeedMarklet. Fill in a name for your "custom" RSS feed. You will see immediately the link to your feed and also two Javascripts which you can drag and drop to your Firefox tool bar.

Whenever you see a nice page just click on the "add this page to: xxx" button on your Firefox tool bar. A Pop-Up window will be opened. You can add a Title, the link and a small summary.

If you think your feed will be so hot that everyone likes to be subscribed to it, then you can earn some money by using Google AdSense for Feeds.

Go on. Create your personal RSS feed and if you like subscribe to mine Subscribe

1 comment:

  1. RSS feeds? What for, if its you that you are writing? :)

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