RSS feeds and libraries

Howdy,

I'm a fellow librarian from NJ. Just wanted to share a
really useful and
simple web tool with you all. Its called Feedity
(www.feedity.com), and
it lets you create RSS feeds for any ANY webpage or website.
I tried
another such tool last year, but it was darn complicated and
so
slowwwwww. However Feedity has been very useful for data
syndication and
day-to-day feed subscriptions. We even used it to create and
import an
RSS feed into our inhouse SQL database. Its free for
personal use and it
works great for me so far. So try it out and share your
tips!

Best,

Nicky
-- 
  Nick Rice
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Hi Nick-

There are a bunch of scrape-a-page-to-a-feed services out
there, but none
I've seen compare to Feed43 <http://www.feed43.com/>
 in terms of power and
flexibility.  I wrote a tutorial for it (available
here<http://davidrothman.
net/2006/07/13/how-to-create-a-feed-for-a-feedless-site-with
-feed43/>
).

PonyFish <http://www.ponyfish.com/
> is only slightly more complex to use
than Feedity and much more powerful.

Some others I've tried:

   - WotzWot <http://www.wotzwot.com/&g
t;
   - FeedYes <http://www.feedyes.com/&g
t;
   - Feedfire <http://www.feedfire.com/
>
   - Feedwhip <http://www.feedwhip.com/
>


-David

----------------
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On 7/27/07, Nick Rice <nickriceeml.cc> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I'm a fellow librarian from NJ. Just wanted to share a
really useful and
> simple web tool with you all. Its called Feedity
(www.feedity.com), and
> it lets you create RSS feeds for any ANY webpage or
website. I tried
> another such tool last year, but it was darn
complicated and so
> slowwwwww. However Feedity has been very useful for
data syndication and
> day-to-day feed subscriptions. We even used it to
create and import an
> RSS feed into our inhouse SQL database. Its free for
personal use and it
> works great for me so far. So try it out and share your
tips!
>
> Best,
>
> Nicky
> --
>   Nick Rice
>   nickriceeml.cc
>
> --
> http://www.fastmail.fm - A
fast, anti-spam email service.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Web4lib mailing list
> Web4libwebjunction.org
> http://lists.we
bjunction.org/web4lib/
>
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Hi Nick-

There are a bunch of scrape-a-page-to-a-feed services out
there, but none
I've seen compare to Feed43 <http://www.feed43.com/>
 in terms of power and
flexibility.  I wrote a tutorial for it (available
here<http://davidrothman.
net/2006/07/13/how-to-create-a-feed-for-a-feedless-site-with
-feed43/>
).

PonyFish <http://www.ponyfish.com/
> is only slightly more complex to use
than Feedity and much more powerful.

Some others I've tried:

   - WotzWot <http://www.wotzwot.com/&g
t;
   - FeedYes <http://www.feedyes.com/&g
t;
   - Feedfire <http://www.feedfire.com/
>
   - Feedwhip <http://www.feedwhip.com/
>


-David

----------------
http://davidrothman.net




On 7/27/07, Nick Rice <nickriceeml.cc> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I'm a fellow librarian from NJ. Just wanted to share a
really useful and
> simple web tool with you all. Its called Feedity
(www.feedity.com), and
> it lets you create RSS feeds for any ANY webpage or
website. I tried
> another such tool last year, but it was darn
complicated and so
> slowwwwww. However Feedity has been very useful for
data syndication and
> day-to-day feed subscriptions. We even used it to
create and import an
> RSS feed into our inhouse SQL database. Its free for
personal use and it
> works great for me so far. So try it out and share your
tips!
>
> Best,
>
> Nicky
> --
>   Nick Rice
>   nickriceeml.cc
>
> --
> http://www.fastmail.fm - A
fast, anti-spam email service.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Web4lib mailing list
> Web4libwebjunction.org
> http://lists.we
bjunction.org/web4lib/
>
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