Learn how to use the power of RSS as part of your marketing. RSS is becoming increasing popular. The reason is fairly simple. RSS is a free and easy way to promote a site and its content without the need to advertise or create complicated content sharing partnerships.
Use RSS to monitor the trains schedules. The F Train in NYC has an RSS feed, riders can also comment on service issues.
The RSS Auction website allows users to create custom ebay search feeds and identify specific parameters to narrow searches. The results will then be output to an RSS feed that can be included in an RSS reader or displayed on a website.
Here is another RSS Chicklet creator they also have a Social Bookmark Creator .
Pheedo, an RSS ad network, has announced the launch of its FeedPowered ad platform, which enables marketers to use text and video RSS content within ad widgets.
Within the ads, users can choose to subscribe to the feed on display, email an item to a friend, or bookmark it via various social media sites, in order to create ‘create viral and word-of-mouth opportunities’.
Well Yahoo Pipes has been the talk of the town the last few days. We thought we would compile what the industry is saying in a short list. I have reservations about feed manipulation and what Yahoo Pipes will mean to content publishers.
Jeremy Zawodny Unlocking the Data Web
Matt Cutts Reviews Yahoo Pipes
OReilly - Yahoo! Pipes: The Modules For Building Pipes
Nick Bradbury - Yahoo! Pipes is a Platform Play
Computer World - Yahoo tests RSS mashup creator for the masses
ZDNet - Yahoo Pipes Belle of the Ball
MarketingStudies - Rok Hrastnik Examples of Yahoo! Pipes in Action to Wet Your Appetite
Niall Kennedy - Yahoo Pipes Remixes the Syndicated Web
Read Write Web - Yahoo and Pipes as a Web Database
Tech Crunch - Yahoo Launches Pipes
I have to question some of the excitement, merging and meshing RSS feeds is not something new….
Hotels, restaurants and online shops that post glowing reviews about themselves under false identities could face criminal prosecution under new rules that come into force next year.
Businesses which write fake blog entries or create whole wesbites purporting to be from customers will fall foul of a European directive banning them from “falsely representing oneself as a consumer”.
UK Passes Laws About Anonymity in Blog Comments or on Websites
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The RSS Glossary covers the commonly used RSS terms and will help those less technical catch up and understand what all the chatter is about.