Feed MixComments on: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/ free licensed software daily Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:03:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Whiterabbit aka Stephen http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-4807 Whiterabbit aka Stephen Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:30:13 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/#comment-4807 I enjoy your comments Advanced specialist. I hope you keep them up as you're clearing away the fog of jargon slowly but surely. thank you. I enjoy your comments Advanced specialist. I hope you keep them up as you’re clearing away the fog of jargon slowly but surely. thank you.

]]> By: aaron http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-4424 aaron Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:28:48 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/#comment-4424 i like it !! i like it !!

]]> By: The Advanced Specialist http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-4416 The Advanced Specialist Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:46:25 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/#comment-4416 Ok, it seems that a lot of newer users are visiting here. (Which is good, I guess this site is getting some publicity and attracting a lot of new visitors.) But having noticed that, maybe some helpful background information might be useful here: RSSFeeds are NEWS Headlines. RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" "Syndication" is when reporters at one place write news articles and then send them out to a lot of other places for --> publication. Like the API or Reuters sends their articles out to all the newspapers. There are TWO sides to it. 1. The people who are generating the news articles (reporters) and 2. The people who want to READ the articles (READERS). There are programs for READING the RSS News Feeds. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. This program is for CREATING the newsfeeds. In other words, this program is for the "REPORTER". It's for people who own a web site already and have content posted on their website, and who want to send links to their pages out to all kinds of other sites like Digg and del.icio.us and Google and to their readers. This Giveaway today is for webmasters. To publish the news, Not to Read the news. If you just want to READ the news, the company that makes This program here ALSO makes a news READER program too. SO you can go to their site and get that program. Or, you could use the reader from www.rssreader.com (free) or some people like one called "feed demon" (not free). You decide. The REASON why a webmaster would WANT to use this RSS feed *creator* is because they can get publicity and visitors to come to their site. And if they have information that they feel is important, they can get it published out there all over the net, on Google, Yahoo, Bloglines, Digg, del.icio.us, boingboing, and also keep their site interesting, and keep the visitors coming. The REASON why a user would WANT to use an RSS READER program rather than just going to sites, is because it would take HOURS and be extremely tedious to type in and go visit hundreds of individual news websites and then be clicking around trying to find subjects that you are interested in. Waiting for the pages to load, having popup ads come up. Waiting for pictures and graphics and all kinds of unwanted things. With an RSS reader, you can just get the subject line (headlines) and if you are interested THEN you click it to visit the site. Also, instead of having to poke through all kinds of subjects that you don't care about, lets say you don't like POLITICS, all the front pages of news sites are going to have that 1st. Maybe you like techie stuff and Science instead. You can set your rss READER program to collect ONLY news about computer gadgets and astronomy. Or whatever it is you like. It's like a personalized newspaper, just for you. You can set it to just get the news headlines from the sites you like. And you can have them alert you as soon as it happens like a little 'tickertape' flashing marquis, like the scroller you see at the bottom of some TV news stations. Even this Giveaway of the Day website uses RSS. Scroll up to the top of this page and go look at the sidebar on the right side where it says: "Subscribe to Our Feeds" This GiveAwayoftheDay website is sending out a list of each new software program that they are offering every day. This gets the word out, people like you can see it, and if you are interested, then you can come here and download it. :) So whether you are a webmaster, or just a reader, RSS is pretty useful. Ok, it seems that a lot of newer users are visiting here. (Which is good, I guess this site is getting some publicity and attracting a lot of new visitors.) But having noticed that, maybe some helpful background information might be useful here:

RSSFeeds are NEWS Headlines.

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”

“Syndication” is when reporters at one place write news articles and then send them out to a lot of other places for –> publication. Like the API or Reuters sends their articles out to all the newspapers.

There are TWO sides to it. 1. The people who are generating the news articles (reporters) and 2. The people who want to READ the articles (READERS).

There are programs for READING the RSS News Feeds. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. This program is for CREATING the newsfeeds. In other words, this program is for the “REPORTER”. It’s for people who own a web site already and have content posted on their website, and who want to send links to their pages out to all kinds of other sites like Digg and del.icio.us and Google and to their readers. This Giveaway today is for webmasters. To publish the news, Not to Read the news.

If you just want to READ the news, the company that makes This program here ALSO makes a news READER program too. SO you can go to their site and get that program. Or, you could use the reader from http://www.rssreader.com (free) or some people like one called “feed demon” (not free). You decide.

The REASON why a webmaster would WANT to use this RSS feed *creator* is because they can get publicity and visitors to come to their site. And if they have information that they feel is important, they can get it published out there all over the net, on Google, Yahoo, Bloglines, Digg, del.icio.us, boingboing, and also keep their site interesting, and keep the visitors coming.

The REASON why a user would WANT to use an RSS READER program rather than just going to sites, is because it would take HOURS and be extremely tedious to type in and go visit hundreds of individual news websites and then be clicking around trying to find subjects that you are interested in. Waiting for the pages to load, having popup ads come up. Waiting for pictures and graphics and all kinds of unwanted things. With an RSS reader, you can just get the subject line (headlines) and if you are interested THEN you click it to visit the site.

Also, instead of having to poke through all kinds of subjects that you don’t care about, lets say you don’t like POLITICS, all the front pages of news sites are going to have that 1st. Maybe you like techie stuff and Science instead. You can set your rss READER program to collect ONLY news about computer gadgets and astronomy. Or whatever it is you like. It’s like a personalized newspaper, just for you. You can set it to just get the news headlines from the sites you like. And you can have them alert you as soon as it happens like a little ‘tickertape’ flashing marquis, like the scroller you see at the bottom of some TV news stations.

Even this Giveaway of the Day website uses RSS. Scroll up to the top of this page and go look at the sidebar on the right side where it says: “Subscribe to Our Feeds” This GiveAwayoftheDay website is sending out a list of each new software program that they are offering every day. This gets the word out, people like you can see it, and if you are interested, then you can come here and download it. :)

So whether you are a webmaster, or just a reader, RSS is pretty useful.

]]> By: Timothy http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-4415 Timothy Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:41:39 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/#comment-4415 haha....most of the free giveaways here are under 10 MB...never really 'big' files...great work giveawayoftheday!! haha….most of the free giveaways here are under 10 MB…never really ‘big’ files…great work giveawayoftheday!!

]]> By: zipzap http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-4396 zipzap Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:29:13 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/#comment-4396 OK, Keilaron, I'll give Feed Mix a try. Thanks. OK, Keilaron, I’ll give Feed Mix a try. Thanks.

]]> By: Keilaron http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-4394 Keilaron Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:31:07 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/#comment-4394 #30, #34, if you'd like, I could help you learn more not only on this subject, but on webmastering in general. :> #30, #34, if you’d like, I could help you learn more not only on this subject, but on webmastering in general. :>

]]> By: Keilaron http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-4393 Keilaron Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:29:49 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/#comment-4393 #35 (zipzap) - Because if you're following a lot of sites, you may not want to read the content after seeing the title of the post (You may already know that it isn't something you're interested in.). Also, RSS feeds are a lot slimmer (less data, that is) so they load much faster, which makes it easier to load a lot of them. Also, you're not restricted by the site's lack of a good search engine (only your feed reader's), or it's lack of speed (one RSS feed would load (more or less) at the same speed as one page on that site, so if it's going really slow, you can still access the main content), or it's lack of filtering (Many RSS readers can filter out posts by various criteria such as the category of the posting.). And finally, it's a lot easier to go through post by post in an RSS/news reader than it is on a site (or MULTIPLE sites for that matter!). Really, it's a matter of convenience. #35 (zipzap) – Because if you’re following a lot of sites, you may not want to read the content after seeing the title of the post (You may already know that it isn’t something you’re interested in.). Also, RSS feeds are a lot slimmer (less data, that is) so they load much faster, which makes it easier to load a lot of them. Also, you’re not restricted by the site’s lack of a good search engine (only your feed reader’s), or it’s lack of speed (one RSS feed would load (more or less) at the same speed as one page on that site, so if it’s going really slow, you can still access the main content), or it’s lack of filtering (Many RSS readers can filter out posts by various criteria such as the category of the posting.). And finally, it’s a lot easier to go through post by post in an RSS/news reader than it is on a site (or MULTIPLE sites for that matter!).

Really, it’s a matter of convenience.

]]> By: zipzap http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-4392 zipzap Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:43:48 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/#comment-4392 I think I understand what RSS is more-or-less, but I don't see the point of it. What's the advantage of using a special client to read "headlines" of other websites? Why not just go to those websites to read them? Please help me understand this. I think I understand what RSS is more-or-less, but I don’t see the point of it. What’s the advantage of using a special client to read “headlines” of other websites? Why not just go to those websites to read them?

Please help me understand this.

]]> By: Debbie http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-4387 Debbie Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:47:40 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/#comment-4387 #30 What programs did you use to teach yourself web design. I have a couple of friends who want me to design a web site. A simple one. One sells home baked goods. One runs a sober living house. He just started. I'm a retired secretary/puppeteer. I'm fairly competent with computers software and hardware, but didn't know what an RSS feed was either. Please give me some freeware or affordable program options for website construction and hosting. Thank you, GOTD team and community. The current program with RSS feeds will probably have me spending more time on my computer than I already do. Anybody have any suggestions of favorite feeds? Have you all heard of www.Craigslist.org (you have to select your own state and city for info relevant to your area). #30 What programs did you use to teach yourself web design. I have a couple of friends who want me to design a web site. A simple one. One sells home baked goods. One runs a sober living house. He just started. I’m a retired secretary/puppeteer. I’m fairly competent with computers software and hardware, but didn’t know what an RSS feed was either. Please give me some freeware or affordable program options for website construction and hosting. Thank you, GOTD team and community.

The current program with RSS feeds will probably have me spending more time on my computer than I already do. Anybody have any suggestions of favorite feeds?

Have you all heard of http://www.Craigslist.org (you have to select your own state and city for info relevant to your area).

]]> By: Arjan http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-4382 Arjan Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:40:41 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/feed-mix/#comment-4382 Thanks to the Advanced Specialist for the tip. It's now working. Thanks to the Advanced Specialist for the tip. It’s now working.

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