RSS! RSS! woohoo!

Discussion in 'Arsenal' started by DallasGooner, Aug 11, 2005.

  1. DallasGooner

    DallasGooner Member

    Apr 16, 2003
    Dallas, Texas
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
  2. fox point fury

    May 19, 2001
    Providence
    I don't get it. :confused:
     
  3. Dkrift

    Dkrift New Member

    Jan 16, 2005
    The Valley
    It allows you to subscribe to this forum through a rss feed reader.
     
  4. fox point fury

    May 19, 2001
    Providence
    Thanks, but what's an rss feed reader? I.e. why would we want or need this?
     
  5. djangone

    djangone Member

    Sep 6, 2004
    Los Feliz
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Also available for Soccernet and Guardian's football section.
     
  6. jwaldman11

    jwaldman11 New Member

    Jun 14, 2002
    The OC
    Yeah, I also have no clue what XML/RSS is.
     
  7. Eddie26

    Eddie26 Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 23, 2004
    Pittsadelphia
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    I feel slightly less nerdy today than I did yesterday.
     
  8. jwaldman11

    jwaldman11 New Member

    Jun 14, 2002
    The OC
    I just tried to read the "simple, easy to use" guide to it and now I have a serious headache.
     
  9. dwinkler

    dwinkler New Member

    Aug 11, 2000
    Denver, CO
    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.
     
  10. Its only Ray Parlour

    Aug 3, 2003
    London
  11. sarabella

    sarabella BigSoccer Supporter

    Jun 22, 2004
    UK
    That's awesome. I can see it becoming my new addiction.
     
  12. Eddie26

    Eddie26 Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 23, 2004
    Pittsadelphia
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    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.
     
  13. sarabella

    sarabella BigSoccer Supporter

    Jun 22, 2004
    UK
    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.
     
  14. Bluto11

    Bluto11 The sky is falling!

    May 16, 2003
    Chicago, IL
    but where the hell does it put the headlines?
     
  15. sarabella

    sarabella BigSoccer Supporter

    Jun 22, 2004
    UK
    In the program that you download - that Feedreader.
     
  16. Bighorn

    Bighorn New Member

    Jan 5, 2005
    41.8 Lat -87.68 Lon
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    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.
     
  17. Bluto11

    Bluto11 The sky is falling!

    May 16, 2003
    Chicago, IL
    sweet, might have to try it out!
     
  18. DallasGooner

    DallasGooner Member

    Apr 16, 2003
    Dallas, Texas
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    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.
     
  19. jwaldman11

    jwaldman11 New Member

    Jun 14, 2002
    The OC
    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?
     
  20. Its only Ray Parlour

    Aug 3, 2003
    London
    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.
     
  21. DallasGooner

    DallasGooner Member

    Apr 16, 2003
    Dallas, Texas
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Something like that is right, but you chose what sites bring content to you. MyYahoo has added RSS. You can add any RSS feed and it will appear on your MyYahoo.
     
  22. naggi

    naggi Member

    Feb 15, 2002
    san francisco
    If you use Firefox, you can just subscribe to an RSS feed as a live bookmark. Then you get a convenient drop down list of all articles, threads or whatever. One of these days, IE will actually become a modern browser with tabs and RSS support. But of course Microsoft will extend the standard and make it proprietary.
     

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