Display the Contents of an RSS Feed on a Web Page

Put RSS Data into your Web Page Using FeedTwister

Reading RSS feeds in your feed reader is great, but what if you want to display the information in an RSS feed on a web page? There are a few good services that will do this very easily.

Let’s take a look at using one of these services. I’m going to use a service called FeedTwister to take the feed that I created in the previous post using Yahoo Pipes and display it on a page.

With FeedTwister, you can take an RSS feed and use FeedTwister to display an RSS feed on a web page using the following steps:

VitaminCM.com Podcast Episode 4 (Combining Internet Data into One RSS Feed)

Use Yahoo Pipes to combine multiple sources of Internet information into a single RSS feed.

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Part 2 of a Three Part Series on RSS Technology

During Part 1 of the VitaminCM.com series on RSS “Master Online Information Through the Magic of RSS Technology” I covered what RSS is and how it works for sites that provide an RSS feed. RSS can do a lot more than just bring your favorite blog posts to your feed reader. During Part 2, I’m going to show you how to get data out of a web site that does not provide an RSS feed. I’m also going to show you how to use combine multiple sources of data from different web sites and combine it into a single RSS feed.

Using RSS to Get Data from Pages that Don’t Provide an RSS Feed

There is a mountain of valuable data out there on the web that would be great to get  sent to your RSS reader. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, the sites with the data don’t always provide RSS feeds. Well, fortunately for you, there is a way to get this data sent to you in an RSS feed.

There is a free service called Dapper, which allows you to grab data from web sites and turn it into a dynamic RSS feed. Let’s say you’re looking for a new house. Realtor.com has millions of listings all over the place. It would be great to open up your feed reader every morning and see a listing of the newly listed homes that met your requirements. Too bad this is not available.

With Dapper, you can create just such a feed in a few minutes using the following steps:

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Master Online Information Through the Magic of RSS Technology

Use RSS Technology as Your Border Collie on the Web

Goal: Explain how RSS is used to Organize and Deliver Content over the Internet. Then, show some interesting ways to find, create, and use information with RSS.

This is Part 1 of a Three Part Series on RSS and the things that it can do. This article will cover what RSS is and how you can use it to read news and updates from your favorite web sites.

Episode 2 – Fix the Annoying Cell Phone Buzz in your Computer Speakers

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I read an article the other day about stopping the annoying buzz that my computer speakers make when my cell phone is on my desk. It turns out that the noise is caused by ElectroMagnetic Interference.

If you have a GSM cell phone (just about everyone in the world besides Verizon and Sprint) the phone tries to use the wires in your speakers as an antenna. Well, actually, the signal jumps to the speaker wire and causes that mind-warping buzzing noise.