Feed Me!
Monday June 27, 2005 at 7:59 pm | Filed under On the Web, Site
I’ve been using My Yahoo! for quite some time. Wait, that doesn’t sound right. Aww forget it you’re on you’re own.
Anyway, it’s got this cool feature now where you can add RSS feeds to your My Yahoo! pages. I’ve created a new page on mine called “Feeds” and I have all of the blogs in my Blogroll in there. I’ve added a graphic so that you can add my feed to your My Yahoo! (Our Yahoo!?) If you want to have a button like this on your site, go here to generate the code you need. It’s very simple, in fact, here’s mine again…
And here’s some links to some friends with feeds enabled. Click on them to add their feeds to your My Yahoo! page(s):
Arlen
Ben
Flippin’ Jason
Monique
Rich
Scott
ShanaFor some reason some of the sites I tried didn’t work, I don’t know if it’s something the owner has to tweak, or I’m guessing wrong at the feed location, but if you have questions, let me know.
RSS feeds are the finally the new hot thing. Apple’s dashboard widgets are a nice example. There are now over 650 widgets available for Dashboard! Heck I got one yesterday that tells me what gas stations in my neighborhood have the cheapest prices! (currently Arco) We’re working on a few projects at work that will use RSS feeds too! I’m excited about those.
If you ‘d like to read up more on this RSS feed thing and how Yahoo! is using it, check this out. Of course, My Yahoo! is just one way to use feeds. There are tons of sites that use them too (not just blogs). Get your sports fix on, grab some CNN, whatever! You can get a newsreader app and check your personalized headlines out when you want, or even subscribe to RSS feeds within certain browsers like Safari and Firefox.
One Response to “Feed Me!”
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Shana Says:
June 29th, 2005 at 2:06 pmI’m so glad I have a technical friend. I read this and didn’t exactly get it. I use my yahoo, but by following your link I added Monique’s blog to my list. Thanks.