RSS

Feedburner is a very well-known website. Feedburner gives you a permanent RSS URL (until Feedburner shuts down, XD), and it also tracks statistics for the people who subscribe to your RSS feed, so you can see who is subscribed. You probably understand those last two features. But what is a permanent RSS URL? Here is an example. If you run your own blog, you probably move hosting from time to time. When you move, your RSS URL changes too. But if you use a Feedburner RSS URL, after you move you only need to update the settings on Feedburner’s side. Feedburner doesn’t have a Traditional Chinese version yet, so it may feel a little unfamiliar at first. Don’t worry, though, because I will show you how to create a permanent RSS URL. Note: Feedburner is now owned by Google, so you need a Google account to use its services. . URL: http://www.feedburner.com/ ...

dokoda offers a very special yet practical feature: it converts ordinary RSS feeds into full-text RSS. If you use a computer a lot, you probably know about RSS and subscribe to some feeds. If so, you’ll know that some sites don’t show their full articles in the RSS feed, to get people to visit the site. You have to click through to read the rest, which wastes a lot of time for people with slow connections. dokoda can convert those RSS feeds into full-text ones. Amazing, right! Now let Ting-feng show you around this site. ...

We already covered Google Reader in the post “Google Reader: Online RSS Reader.” I said back then that it had lots of amazing features, but I didn’t explain them very clearly. So now I’ll show you how to use Google Reader to build RSS applications. The first one is the broadcast network. If you blog a lot, you probably know what that is! It automatically posts the new articles from every participating blog, which raises the visibility of everyone’s posts. It’s a really great technique XD ...

Did you know? Firefox has a great feature: you can subscribe to RSS feeds directly, with no add-on needed, and it loads quite fast. I’m not sure when this feature was introduced, I only recently discovered it :: ) Without further ado, here is how to subscribe to a website’s RSS feed with Firefox………………………….