What is a newsfeed ? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Omkar   
Wednesday, 22 November 2006
FAQ Update:
The new rss newsfeeds adress now is:

www.omkarmusic.com/rss.xml  Omkarmusic Newsfeeds rss 2.0

just copy and paste this adress to your newsreader
A free newsreader to be found here


At the time I was working for a radio station

I had a homepage for news and articles.
I thought it was a good idea to have also a newsletter handy
to inform visitors and people listening to the shows.

I had no idea how much work there is to be done in the back
to get everything running nice and proper.
I spent hours and hours to tweak here and there,
to have subscription module ready, to have the component well organized.

I had to look around whats aside newsletters
and so I found the option of newsfeeds.

Read news with newsfeeds

 

All a user needs is a so called newsfeeds client or newsfeeds reader.
And there are tons of free newsfeed readers available on the net.
Pick up this newsreader as an example,
it`s free ...
That means you don`t have to pay for another software
and you can pick up the news you like to read
and put it to the newsfeeds reader as a non exclusive newschannel.

A newsletter is always exclusive for users.
You can subscribe to one site
and you will get the news of this particular site.
With a newsfeeds reader a user can pick up as many newsfeeds he likes.

Let`s say you like to be informed with news of an artist
and also want the news from a fansite of your choice,
this can all be organized within one reader.

 

You don`t get single mails from different sites,

you get all the news from all the sites of your choice within one reader.


Most newsfeeds reader can also categorize the kind of news.
So you`ll might have categories like music, jokes, newspapers
and drop the newsfeeds of a site onto a category.
Any time you are online the reader updates the news provided from the sites.

Subscribing and unsubscribing to a newsfeeds is simply this:

Subsribe: Copy and paste the newsfeeds adress to your newsreader
Unsubscribe: delete the adress

On omkarmusic you will find the protocol I use called `rss 2.0`.
This simply indicates what kind of protocol your client needs to have
to be able to receive the news of this site.
Rss 2.0 is the most common at the moment.

How do I know who offers newsfeeds ?


If you are browsing with firefox
(now also available on Internet Explorer 7)
you will find an orange antenna symbol
at the right of the adress tab at the top.
You can click on the symbol and add the newsfeed to firefox
or to a desktop newsfeeds reader and you are done.
Now you`ll get the news whenever available.
On any site you see this antenna it means the site serves also newsfeeds.

Having a newsfeed reader open you will get all the news
as soon as they are online.

If you type `free newsfeeds reader` to a search engine like google
you might be surprised how many are out there ready for downloads.

 
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