Jaclyn McKewan, MLS

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• RSS – Really Simple Syndication – written in XML – just a format for the content.
• RSS can be used for anything that is frequently updated.
• Saves time – no need to check multiple sites.
• Ebay actually has a feed on your search results.
• Some sites, like Google News, will have an RSS feed on a certain topic.
• Online readers:  Google Reader & Bloglines.
• Desktop readers: Firefox Live Bookmarks, Thunderbird, FeedDemon.
• Use iGoogle or My Yahoo to get your RSS feeds.
• Applications on Facebook to incorporate RSS.
• Can import your blog postings to your Facebook page under Notes section.
• Can subscribe to Delicious feed as an RSS.
• Can also get updates for Flickr searches in RSS feed.
• Feeds for Webpages without RSS:  Page2RSS & Feedity – put a page in one of these and then past that feed into a reader.
• Mashups/Feedmixers – Yahoo Pipes & Feed Informer.

• Feed2JS – put RSS on your webpage.  Tell it what feed you want and it comes back with Javascript to paste into the webpage.
• Use Delicious account to update the recommended websites – then subscribe as an RSS feed.
• ???RSS feed from the catalog for new books and searches – Hennepin County Library example.
• Post the latest blog post on the library’s webpage through an RSS feed.  Use Feed2JS.
• Google calendars are capable of RSS feeds.  Go to calendar details, click on XML box next to calendar address.  Put “?orderby=starttime&sortorder=ascending&futureevents=true” at the end of the feed to show events in ascending order and all in the future.
• Desktop feedreader – Rainmeter from Google
• Podcast can be subscribed to with RSS feeders.  Right click on the source and save as an MP3 file.