Friday, September 02, 2005
FeedDigest: An Excellent RSS Radar or NewMastering Tool
I spent some more time with FeedDigest, the tool that helps you display syndicated content on your sites and mix multiple feeds together, and discovered it actually offers much more under the hood than I first anticipated.
The problem the first time was simple: they hide the best features under some very difficult to spot links. But once you really start paying attention you discover that FeedDigest really is a powerful RSS radar creation tool.
a] You start creating your RSS radar by entering the first feed URL in to the new digest form.
b] You're immediately taken to a page with advanced settings:
Basic information, such as digest name.
Item ordering settings and the max number of items to show.
Filtering capabilities, hidden behind a link (you can filter the multiple feeds you're mixing with a search string).
International settings, if you'll be mixing feeds in languages other than English.
Template selection, to define in what HTML template you want the content from the feeds to be displayed in. The best feature is that you can actually create your own templates.
Your account information.
c] After creating your account you get immediate access to all the outputs, which include HTML and JavaScript (to display on your site), and RSS and Atom. They also give you access to a simple piece of PHP code to use to display the digest on your site, instead of JavaScript, which really doesn't do you any good for the search engines.
All in all, a great RSS radar tool. Do we have a market leader in this category here? more...
http://www.sebura.com
Originally Posted on 9/2/2005 12:10:28 PMContent source: http://rssdiary.marketingstudies.net/content/feeddigest_an_excellent_rss_radar_or_newmastering_tool.php
The problem the first time was simple: they hide the best features under some very difficult to spot links. But once you really start paying attention you discover that FeedDigest really is a powerful RSS radar creation tool.
a] You start creating your RSS radar by entering the first feed URL in to the new digest form.
b] You're immediately taken to a page with advanced settings:
Basic information, such as digest name.
Item ordering settings and the max number of items to show.
Filtering capabilities, hidden behind a link (you can filter the multiple feeds you're mixing with a search string).
International settings, if you'll be mixing feeds in languages other than English.
Template selection, to define in what HTML template you want the content from the feeds to be displayed in. The best feature is that you can actually create your own templates.
Your account information.
c] After creating your account you get immediate access to all the outputs, which include HTML and JavaScript (to display on your site), and RSS and Atom. They also give you access to a simple piece of PHP code to use to display the digest on your site, instead of JavaScript, which really doesn't do you any good for the search engines.
All in all, a great RSS radar tool. Do we have a market leader in this category here? more...
http://www.sebura.com
Originally Posted on 9/2/2005 12:10:28 PMContent source: http://rssdiary.marketingstudies.net/content/feeddigest_an_excellent_rss_radar_or_newmastering_tool.php
