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RSS Feeds? by YourMom on 04-02-2004 at 03:41 AM
I don't know if this has been suggested before, and I can't do a search since "RSS" is less than 4 characters, but are there any plans to add RSS capability to Plus!?
If so, it would be really cool if the RSS feature was located as a MSN Tab.
What you think?
RE: RSS Feeds? by Tochjo on 04-02-2004 at 08:01 AM
You might be interested in reading http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=20234 and http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=21050.
RE: RSS Feeds? by YourMom on 04-02-2004 at 03:44 PM
So has the creator of Plus! considered this?
I'm gonna continue to use Trillian until Plus! supports this. I think it's a crucial feature to support these days.
RE: RSS Feeds? by Guido on 04-02-2004 at 04:26 PM
quote:My personal opinon is... it's a crucial feature for news agregators, not for plug-ins for instant messengers
Originally posted by YourMom
So has the creator of Plus! considered this?
I'm gonna continue to use Trillian until Plus! supports this. I think it's a crucial feature to support these days.
. Maybe for e-mail applications, but not for instant messengers...Personally, I use NewsGator for Outlook 2003. Reccommended
.There are many good free news agregators, which are already much better than what Trillian's plugin is or what Msgplus' feature could be.
Again, my opinion.
RE: RSS Feeds? by CookieRevised on 04-02-2004 at 04:56 PM
Why not creating your own tab... you can put every RSS feed you like in that...
RE: RSS Feeds? by Wabz on 04-02-2004 at 05:13 PM
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Why not creating your own tab... you can put every RSS feed you like in that...
Cool idea!!
What RSS software do you recommend and where can ya get news feeds from?
RE: RSS Feeds? by CookieRevised on 04-02-2004 at 06:59 PM
I dunno, I don't use RSS-feeds (
)... But you can simple write some PHP which catches some headlines from other sites...
RE: RSS Feeds? by Guido on 04-02-2004 at 08:46 PM
quote:It's not as simple as you think, eh
Originally posted by CookieRevised
I dunno, I don't use RSS-feeds (
You get news feeds from a lot of sites themselves (including Neowin, Cnet, Slashdot, many newspapers around the world, etc.) and there are many directories with rss feeds which I am too lazy to look for.
As for the RSS readers, I've only used (and love) NewsGator 2 (nothing to do with Gator spyware, its Gator from Agregator), but I've heard Feeddemon is very good too (not free either).
RE: RSS Feeds? by CookieRevised on 04-02-2004 at 09:05 PM
quote:Yes it is
Originally posted by Guido
It's not as simple as you think, eh
... write a php that catches some other HTML-page, strip of the HTML and you get your headline... No, I'm not going to do it myself 
But, I know, this isn't realy a RSS-feed, but you can catch many headlines like this from other (thru) RSS-feeded sites...
RE: RSS Feeds? by WDZ on 04-02-2004 at 09:15 PM
* WDZ wonders if there's a news-reader program that generates a web page though, or that you can include in a web page. 
I'd just code my own...
RE: RSS Feeds? by Guido on 04-02-2004 at 10:12 PM
It's simple if you do it simple, but it's not if you want it to work: making it parse the webpage every time you load it would make it take many seconds to load. I was talking about coding a good one, with caching and all
It's not like
code:
<?php
$news=cache(parse('http://shoutbox.menthix.net'));
echo $news;
?>
quote:Well, if you mean scripts that load and parse RSS feeds, yes, there are many of them... a good php one is:
Originally posted by WDZ
* WDZ wonders if there's a news-reader program that generates a web page though, or that you can include in a web page.
I'd just code my own...
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