RSS! RSS! woohoo!

[DallasGooner]

About freaking time....

Arsenal forum RSS feed:
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=185

[fox point fury]

I don't get it. :confused:

[Dkrift]

I don't get it. :confused:

It allows you to subscribe to this forum through a rss feed reader.

[fox point fury]

It allows you to subscribe to this forum through a rss feed reader.

Thanks, but what's an rss feed reader? I.e. why would we want or need this?

[djangone]

Also available for Soccernet and Guardian's football section.

[jwaldman11]

Thanks, but what's an rss feed reader? I.e. why would we want or need this?
Yeah, I also have no clue what XML/RSS is.

[Eddie26]

I feel slightly less nerdy today than I did yesterday.

[jwaldman11]

I feel slightly less nerdy today than I did yesterday.
I just tried to read the "simple, easy to use" guide to it and now I have a serious headache.

[dwinkler]

Yeah, show us some love, DG, and tell us the best software/whatever to read RSS. Unless I can add it to My Yahoo with the click of a button, I haven't figured out how to use RSS yet.

[Its only Ray Parlour]

http://www.freewarepub.net/freeware/Feedreader_2.90.html

I use this program to view news and new posts. Too add a new feed, just click on the RSS link you find on the site and copy the URL you get from target page (which will be written in XML), then paste into the program.

[sarabella]

That's awesome. I can see it becoming my new addiction.

[Eddie26]

http://www.freewarepub.net/freeware/Feedreader_2.90.html

I use this program to view news and new posts. Too add a new feed, just click on the RSS link you find on the site and copy the URL you get from target page (which will be written in XML), then paste into the program.

So is RSS XML thing kind of like Scientology? I mean now one will tell me what it is but they'll show me how I can get it.

[sarabella]

It basically puts all your news headlines in one place. For example, every day, I read yanks-abroad, the guardian, bbc, evertonfc, and a few others. Now, instead of going to each individual website, this program downloads the headlines and I can read whichever ones I want without having to sift through everything.

[Bluto11]

but where the hell does it put the headlines?

[sarabella]

In the program that you download - that Feedreader.

[Bighorn]

I add my rss feeds to my yahoo. That way it updates them on the my yahoo home page. I do this with Arsenal America for one and my Netflix queue also.

I don't think I will use it for this forum though. There are too many new threads/posts. A new one might scroll of the rss feed from my yahoo before I even see it. The my yahoo rss feed only includes the more recent items.

[Bluto11]

In the program that you download - that Feedreader.
sweet, might have to try it out!

[DallasGooner]

Looks like its been answered but the qucik way to think of RSS is that it brings the news to you. When a post is updated the RSS feed is updated. You subscribe to RSS (I use Bloglines) and it checks the feeds for me so I don't have to go check the 78 feeds I currently subscribe to, I go one place and all updates are there.

With BigSoccer I subscribe to the Arsenal forum and all post and then brought to me. No going and reading different posts, clicking around, etc. All of them are sent to me.....well thats how it should work, so far the RSS feed is not that good....but its a start.

[jwaldman11]

Am I correct in thinking that this is similar to that "NewsNow" site that collects Arsenal news from all over the world on a continual basis?

[Its only Ray Parlour]

Am I correct in thinking that this is similar to that "NewsNow" site that collects Arsenal news from all over the world on a continual basis?

Something like that but fitted into a folder in small application. You can also have updates for anything you want as long as the site has RSS link attached.