Getting bored with using webfeeds to read blogs? Then here’s the Cutting Through Guide To 10 Cool Things You Can Do With Webfeeds
Get a new slant on the news
Get a new perspective on the world by subscribing to a webfeed from the world’s most respected broadcaster. The BBC offers webfeeds for all its news and current affairs output, together with much more besides.
Find out what’s going on with the weather
Want to know if it’s raining in Linton-on-Ouse? Pay a visit to RSSWeather.com and enter a city, state or ICAO airport code to find out what the weather’s doing at your nearest airport.
Follow in a guru’s footsteps
The management guru’s management guru Tom Peters has a blog where he holds forth about all things guruish – and the contents of his suitcase…
Find out when Granny lands at Heathrow
Waiting for a flight to arrive? Then use Robert Price’s UK flight arrival and departure feeds to check on the ;latest movements of flights to and from the UK. Want to know if her flight from JFK left late – PubSub’s airport alerts feed will keep you informed.
Spy on other people’s bookmarks
Interested in what other people are linking to? Then take a look at the webfeeds at del.icio.us. You can subscribe to the latest bookmarks or an individual keyword that you’re interested in.
Keep track of your bookmarks
Once you’ve set up your own del.icio.us account, grab a webfeed of your bookmarks straight into your newsreader…
Keep an eye on what others are saying about you
Want to know what’s being said about you on the web? Don’t bother Googling when you can use PubSub – just create a personalised feed to search for the search term of your choice, and have the results delivered driect to your newsreader
Find out what your MP has been up to
Wondering what your Member of Parliament has been doing to justify your vote come the next election? Subscribe to their Recent Appearances webfeed, and get details of their questions and contributions to debates in the House of Commons – then fax them about it
Roll your own newsfeed
Found a news source that hasn’t got webfeeds yet (oh, the shame)? No problem – use Newsisfree to grab and build a custom webfeed from their database of 14,000 sources…
Look for items on eBay
Looking for that perfect Christmas present? Set up an eBay search, and then subscribe to the results in your newsreader…
Another eBay feed script is ebayFeed, which works in addition with international eBay portals, plus it is open-source and can be installed on your own server.
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Just wondered if you were aware that when I comment from feedreader, like I did above, I have no problems.
In IE, (I haven’t tried firefox yet) I get a non resizeable window that I have to “Shuggy” in order to see other peoples comments. (Shuggy = move from side to side)
The side sections appear in the comment window too. Is this deliberate?
Cool things you can do with RSS
Tim at Cutting Through posts 10 things you can do with RSS/Atom feeds. There’s some pretty cool things in there, such as keeping an eye on the weather or the arrivals board at your local airport.
Practical uses for RSS
This list gives some concrete examples of the value of RSS.
Hopefully the move to Wordpress should have resolved the layout problems – and I’ve learnt a new word as well (shuggy – like that one!)
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