New RSS Feed Website Feature

kaibobble · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: New RSS Feed Website Feature

Poker Content for your Website

A World of Poker offers you an opportunity to source our information on your own website free of charge. By implementing this feature on your website it mean when we add new information on to A World of Poker the information will automatically update on your website.

What is RSS?

RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by news Web sites, weblogs and podcasting. Web feeds provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content.

We currently have information from the Poker News and the A World of Poker TV Shows available

Please take a look

http://www.aworldofpoker.com/rssfeed.php
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milan · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:00 pm Post subject:

well done Kate... really great feature...
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kaibobble · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject:

Just hope people use it - it's a bit technical to implement Confused

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JonThomson · Royal Flush Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 3247 Location: FTP

RSS = nuts

What "new information" can we see from it, for those of us who are using substandard internet browsers at this very second?
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kaibobble · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject:

WHat it means is that if you own your own website you can add a bit of code to one of your pages and when I add for example a new news item to A World of Poker it will automatically add the same news item to your website.

It's dynamic content from our site to other people websites.
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JonThomson · Royal Flush Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 3247 Location: FTP

kaibobble · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:

It will feed in from http://www.aworldofpoker.com/news.php

So if you have a look at some of the News items that go on there it will be the same sort of ones.

The TV show one will obviously be the latest show every week.
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JonThomson · Royal Flush Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 3247 Location: FTP

Ah, I see. I very rarely look at anything other than the forum. If it encourages more frequent and up to date news it's got to be a good thing...
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kaibobble · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject:

I try my hardest with the news. It's tough to get interesting content. Hey people are welcome to send in interesting stuff to me Very Happy

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kaibobble · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject:

OK I have now added

National Results

Festivals and Events

You can now show details of upcoming comps and national results on your own websites.
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kaibobble · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject:

What you can also do is use a service such as "My Yahoo" to import lots of XML feeds and keep track of all the latest news from one location.

You subscribe to someones XML service and then it will update automatically (looks a bit like an email inbox)

If you have a look at the bottom of the page here http://www.aworldofpoker.com/rssfeed.php you will be able to have a try Very Happy

(I actually think the newsgator one is the best)
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kaibobble · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:35 am Post subject:

If anyone does own their own website and would like to include the following features on their site:

Poker News

A World of Poker TV Shows

National Results

Festivals and Events

Then please contact me if you are unsure or have any questions at kate@aworldofpoker.com
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Boothy20 · One Pair Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 139 Location: Bolton

KlipFolio is my personal fav for desktop rss feeds.
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kaibobble · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:57 am Post subject:

Ah yeah just downloaded that one - seems quite good Very Happy

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kaibobble · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject:

Hosted Services

The easiest of solution is not server dependent, a third party host displays the contents of the feed. The downside to using a hosted service is that you are relying on a third party. If the third party's website has problems, your content will not be displayed. Additionally, webmasters often cannot customize the way the contents are displayed on hosted servers and there is no real search engine benefit to third party hosting.

Examples: FeedBurner.com - http://www.feedburner.com and RSS2HTML - http://www.rss2html.com.

Scripts

Using scripts to display RSS feeds on a website is probably the most effective solution. In addition, the webmaster using ASP or PHP scripts to convert their feeds, maintain the control of the "look and feel" of the content displayed. Webmasters also realize the benefit of hosting the feed on a domain that is within the webmasters control.

Using ASP or PHP will allow search engines to spider the actual contents of the RSS feed as if it is part of the actual HTML. Pay particular attention to solutions that cache the RSS feed. If your RSS feed is popular this will save significant bandwidth.

PHP

PHP is a popular scripting language that is often used to dynamically update web pages. PHP support is available on most web servers that run on a Unix Operating System.

Example: rss2html.php - http://www.feedforall.com/free-php-script.htm

ASP

ASP or active server pages is a scripting language similar to PHP but support is more often found on Windows web servers.

Example: rss2html.asp - http://www.bytescout.com/how_to_display_rss_using_asp.html

Javascript

Javascript is easy to use, and many sites will produce the code that needs to be inserted into the HTML web page, making implementation very easy for webmasters. The downside to the majority of the javascript solutions is that the webpage calls the script each time, and the actual contents of the feed is not able to be spidered or indexed by search engines. So while javascript is easy to use, there is very little benefit to the webmaster. Search engines will not detect any new content or keywords contained in the contents of the feed, so their is little optimization benefit to displaying RSS feeds using javascript. Additionally, while it is unusual, occasionally website visitors will have the javascript turned off in their browser, if that is the case they will be unable to view the contents of the feed.

Example: FeedRoll Pro - http://www.feedrollpro.com

Advanced Scripts/Merging Scripts

Webmasters will often find value in merging multiple RSS feeds in to a single feed. This is particularly useful when attempting to aggregate news on a specific topic. The script allows you to produce an RSS feed by taking the latest items from multiple feeds.

Example: RSSmesh - http://www.feedforall.com/rssmesh.htm.

Filtering/Newsmastering

Due to the enormous and ever-increasing information flow we are all submitted to, the only way to improve our ability to access and use the information that is really important to us, must take place by scaling up one notch our ability to filter, aggregate, and access relevant content.

Example: Newsmaster kit - http://www.masternewmedia.org/reports/newsmasterstoolkit/
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Willben · Two Pair Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 313 Location: Wales

This seems very good for all who aint as thick as me. I still have a VCR which i m unable to record with ... Embarassed

The Chaser · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject:

Im with you Will ben...file me under technophobe
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kaibobble · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject:

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just kidding, always wanted to use that emoticon and never had the opportunity till now)
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