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There are currently many methods of tracking RSS feeds, all with their own problems in terms of accuracy.
Method 1 Action research, article of faith, xe currency.
Transparent 1x1 pixel images - These images can be embedded within the content of the RSS feed by linking to the image which should be held on the web server. The number of requests made can be measured by using the web server log files. This will give a rough estimate as to how many times the RSS feed has been viewed.
The problem with this method is that not all RSS feed aggregators will display images and parse HTML.
Method 2 Action research, article of faith, xe currency.
3rd Party services - There are services available on the internet that will syndicate your RSS feed and then track all requests made to their syndication of your RSS feed. These services come free and paid forms.
The problem with this method is that all analytical data about the feeds are controlled by the service provider and so not easily accessible or transferable.
Method 3 Action research, article of faith, xe currency.
Unique URL per feed - This method requires heavy web server programming to auto generate a different RSS feed URL for each visitor to the website. The visitor's RSS feed activity can then be tracked accurately using standard web analytics applications.
The problem with this method is that if the feed is syndicated by a search engine for instance then this will defeat the purpose of the unique URLs as many people could potentially view the RSS feed via a single URL.
pRSSreader is an application for reading RSS/RDF and Atom feeds on PocketPC. pRSSreader is small, fast and highly configurable application developed by David Andrs.
The two main features of pRSSreader include:
caching HTML pages for offline browsing
optimizing HTML pages for PDA screens.
pRSSreader's two most significant features are caching HTML pages for offline browsing and optimizing HTML pages for PDA screens. Other features include:
site manager for managing subscriptions
marking items read, unread or new
flagging items
sequential reading
importing/exporting OPML file
integration with Today screen
summary view
marking items that include predefined keywords
proxy support (HTTP, SOCKS4, SOCKS5)
HTTP authentication (Basic and Digest)
What is RSS?
This page is an RSS syndication feed. Simply put, it's a common technique used for sharing content on the web for reuse.
If you are not familiar with what RSS is and would like to learn more visit Wikipedia for an explanation.
Using this web address (URL) you can use content from this site in a variety of tools and websites. For individuals, the most likely usage is within an application known as an RSS reader. An RSS reader is an application you run on your own computer which can request and store the content from RSS feeds. Action research, article of faith, xe currency.
To use this feed in your RSS reader software you will need the web address (URL) of this page. Just copy and paste it where your RSS Reader software asks for a URL.
Feed Scenarios
The left-most column covers scenarios based on time-sorted feeds. The RSS support in Longhorn gives developers the ability to enable any of these scenarios in their applications.
One scenario might involve interacting with a feed that contains calendar information. For example, a user wants to attend a business conference:
On the conference's Web site, the conference organizer has made available a feed of calendar data. Whenever there are updates to the overall schedule, the publisher simply updates the feed.
The user can subscribe to the schedule feed. Their calendar program can automatically show them the events provided by the conference organizer.
If the location for a sessions changes, it's automatically updated in the user's calendar the next time she connects to the Internet.
In another example, a school might publish their calendar of events on the school's Web site:
Parent meetings, plays, and other activities can appear as events in this feed.
Parents can subscribe to the calendar and have the events automatically appear on their calendars as soon as the school schedules them (and therefore not having to rely on the school contacting them, or the child informing them).
The school might even allow feeds tailored to individual students, so that the information in the parent's calendar includes the student's after-school activity schedule allowing the parent to know what time the child is finished each day, so that he can pick them up.
Another scenario might involve a digital photo management application. For example, a couple having their first child might want to share the pictures of their baby with their family in other countries:
The couple creates a photo blog and posts pictures of their baby at various stages of its growth.
A family member in another country can subscribe to a photo blog and have pictures of the new baby automatically downloaded. Any time new pictures are posted, they are automatically viewable in a photo library or a screen saver, whichever way the user wants, without needing to open a browser to check the site to see if new photos have been downloaded.
The family members could also subscribe to other people's photo blogs, and see all of the photos from all of their friends and family together.
List Scenarios
There are a number of interesting new scenarios that involve lists of items that are not time-ordered. Looking at the right side of the diagram above, we can see several examplesmany of them paralleling similar examples for time-ordered feeds.
One example of the use of a feed might be to allow users to subscribe to wish lists. Action research, article of faith, xe currency.
A daughter in another city creates a wish list on Amazon.com and updates it with new content every few weeks.
Her mother wants to know when her daughter wants something new, in case she wants to get it. She also wants quick access to the list, for special occasions.
The mother is able to go to the Amazon.com Web site and subscribe to her daughter's wish list.
Whenever her daughter adds a new item, she is notified of the addition, and she can tell which one of the items is the new one.
When she views the list, she will be able see her daughter's priority order, and she can sort by cost, category, or anything else about the items that Amazon.com makes available for her.
In another case, a user might want to be kept up-to-date with the top-10 singles on a music site.
The music site would publish a feed of the top-10 singles using the Simple List Extensions, which enables them to give hints to the client as to how to show the list correctly.
The user subscribes to the list, and is able toat any timeview the ordered list of top-10 singles.
Whenever there is a change in the list, he can be notified. The client will be able to show the correct order at all times, and can even give him some filtering controls so that he filters, for example, so that he sees the Rock songs only.
If the user chooses to buy a song, links in the item can take him straight to a site where he can purchase it immediately.
RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.
RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.
A brief history
But coders beware. The name "RSS" is an umbrella term for a format that spans several different versions of at least two different (but parallel) formats. The original RSS, version 0.90, was designed by Netscape as a format for building portals of headlines to mainstream news sites. It was deemed overly complex for its goals; a simpler version, 0.91, was proposed and subsequently dropped when Netscape lost interest in the portal-making business. But 0.91 was picked up by another vendor, UserLand Software, which intended to use it as the basis of its weblogging products and other web-based writing software.
In the meantime, a third, non-commercial group split off and designed a new format based on what they perceived as the original guiding principles of RSS 0.90 (before it got simplified into 0.91). This format, which is based on RDF, is called RSS 1.0. But UserLand was not involved in designing this new format, and, as an advocate of simplifying 0.90, it was not happy when RSS 1.0 was announced. Instead of accepting RSS 1.0, UserLand continued to evolve the 0.9x branch, through versions 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and finally 2.0.
What a mess.
Free RSS News Syndication Service for Websites and Net Users Seeking Reliable Doctor-Produced Health and Medical Information
MedicineNet offers the convenience of RSS feeds which provide a means to view and deliver new or updated health and medical content that is posted on MedicineNet.com to your website or desktop. The RSS feeds are organized by channels. We have general and specific medical and health channels covering the latest medical news, diseases and conditions, procedures and tests, medications, and our MedTerms medical word of the day channel. By subscribing to a channel, you can have important headlines delivered to your XML enabled website or desktop on health and medical topics of interest to you. If you are looking for website integration and RSS is too technical, we do offer content syndication using our free syndicator tool.
To get started:
you need to install an RSS feed reader, (A reader is a software application similar in function to your email program - you will see headlines and descriptions in the channels you've subscribed to in this application - see the list of some of the available RSS readers)
and subscribe to a channel. To subscribe you need to copy the channel URL into your reader.
The icon helps you identify that an RSS Feed is available. This icon will have the URL link to that channel. To subscribe to the channel, right-click on it and choose Copy Shortcut. Switch to your reader and select File, New menu option (this may vary based on your reader). Follow the menus to add the channel.
If you click on this icon, a new browser window will open that includes the XML code. All you need is the URL that points your reader to that channel. For example our Daily Health and Medical News channel URL looks like this: http://www.medicinenet.com/rss/dailyhealth.xml
To add the channel, you can copy this URL from the browser into your reader. See the instructions in your reader software on how to create a new channel.
Once you have subscribed, your reader will automatically check the channel for updates. For example, if MedicineNet posts a new Arthritis article, and you've subscribed to our Arthritis General Channel, you will see that this article has been added in your reader. You can go directly to that new article on MedicineNet.com. This is a great way to keep up-to-date on the new or updated content posted on MedicineNet.com. We have many health and medicine channels that you can subscribe to in the RSS format. Please subscribe and enjoy! If you are a webmaster and have specific syndication requirements, please email us with your request. We also have other free health and medical solutions available.
Benefits of RSS Feeds
You take control and determine which RSS channel you would like to view.
You only view a headline and description making it easy for you to scan topics.
The link will take you directly to that article.
You are alerted when our site is updated.
Available MedicineNet RSS Feed Channels
When you see this icon , throughout MedicineNet you know that there is an RSS feed channel related to the health or medical topic you are reading. By clicking on the icon and using your RSS reader, you can subscribe to that channel.
We offer five types of health and medical RSS feed channels. Action research, article of faith, xe currency.
Daily Health and Medical News Channel (updated nightly Monday through Friday)
Weekly Health and Medical News Digest Channel (compilation of the previous week's daily health and medical news - updated every Friday night)
MedTerms Medical Word of the Day Channel (a medical definition from our medical dictionary - updated daily, 7 days a week)
Specialty Channels (specific, over 1,000 available - for example the Acne Specialty Channel) and
General Channels (broad, 36 available - for example the Skin General Channel)
Specialty Health and Medical Channels (specific disease, procedure, or medication)
There are over 1,000 specialty health and medical channels to choose from. These include diseases and conditions, medical procedures, and medications . To locate a specialty channel, look for the Specialty icon on the right navigation of the article or the bottom of the index page on the specific health and medical topic page. When you see this, you know the specific topic has an associated RSS specialty channel. You just need to subscribe to that specialty channel. For example you can subscribe to the Psoriatic Arthritis Specialty Channel. When articles related to this specific topic are updated or added on MedicineNet.com, the channel will be updated accordingly. This process occurs nightly. Action research, article of faith, xe currency.
General Health and Medical Channels (broad medical and health topics)
We currently cover 36 General Health and Medical Channels. A collection of specialty articles typically make-up a general channel. For example our Arthritis General Channel includes over 250 arthritis related articles such as Osteoarthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis. Below is a listing of available general channels. You can also locate a general channel by looking for the General icon on the left navigation of the Focused topic in MedicineNet.com.
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