Customizing RSS ?

nombre · 02-04-2010, 09:47 AM

have never worked with rss feeds
can you customize them to cover a specific subject or subjects ?
have a domain that i want to use to cover ipads, kindles etc
like using google alerts only for rss ?

mrjohn · 02-04-2010, 09:50 PM

What are you trying to do? Pull a feed and build a site from it, or create a site that pushes its content out to RSS?

I've used a Yahoo BOSS system I built for a couple sites. The only live one right is 18hz.net. It's not a simple site, but the functionality is simple. You update the site by doing news searches through BOSS. It dumps those results with an "Add" button. Click Add and it goes on the site in a Digg-style news link with short description.

nombre · 02-05-2010, 08:33 AM

don't want to send anything out
i am trying to find a way to bring in stories about specific subjects that appear all over the web
like, when there is a story about the hp slate somewhere, i would like a feed to that particular story
boss looks interesting but is way above my technical skills
so like i would have a"news" section, like a one column sidebar and it would scroll stories only for subjects that would match the exact keywords i specify
make any sense ?

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mrjohn NamePros Regular Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 403	What are you trying to do? Pull a feed and build a site from it, or create a site that pushes its content out to RSS? I've used a Yahoo BOSS system I built for a couple sites. The only live one right is 18hz.net. It's not a simple site, but the functionality is simple. You update the site by doing news searches through BOSS. It dumps those results with an "Add" button. Click Add and it goes on the site in a Digg-style news link with short description.

02-05-2010, 08:33 AM	THREAD STARTER #3 (permalink)
nombre NamePros Regular Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 638	don't want to send anything out i am trying to find a way to bring in stories about specific subjects that appear all over the web like, when there is a story about the hp slate somewhere, i would like a feed to that particular story boss looks interesting but is way above my technical skills so like i would have a"news" section, like a one column sidebar and it would scroll stories only for subjects that would match the exact keywords i specify make any sense ?

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