can any1 direct me to an article about RSS feeds?

[Qon]

some sort of tutorial or breakdown on what's so hot about them as it applies to the adult online industry - thanks!

[LowryBigwood]

Hey DamnQ.

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for or not, but give this a quick peak. http://occash.com/rss_tutorials/index.html

[johnnybg]

RSS feeds are just another way to get traffic to your site. Yes, they are hot right now and can makey you money if you have quality content to push through those feeds and get subscribers. Subscribers are something like bookmarkers.

They go nicely with blogs and all frequently updated sites.

As for articles, start off with Wikipedia.

[Qon]

thanks lowry.... that was just what i needed. it'll take a minute to go thru it but i'll get thru it

[[BV]]

Hey Qon,

I talked to you a bit down in Hollywood at the last show. How's it going?

If you are going to implement RSS feeds for your program, you might want to make a FHB (Free Hosted Blog) with a Plugin available to work with WordPress. There are a few different ones out there.

Then you basically just make a killer blog for your site and keep it updated. Your affiliates can either link to it or they can pull the RSS feed from it with their link codes inserted.

Blog owners will love this and it's the Bloggers that are raising so much interest ATM with RSS. Basically free dynamically changing content for their blog.

[GonZo]

I saw a good bit of information for beginners over at Netpond about a year ago. There were several good threads here on it as well.

[cardinalvices]

Another good reference site is Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

[RamCharger]

The best place to look for information on RSS is on xml.com You'll find more than enough information there.

[JohnWebcams.com]

This is from our RSS help page at Webcams.com. It's specifically talking about Webcams.com but would apply to any adult RSS feeds:

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to display our freshly updated content on your site dynamically. This means that when we update our RSS feed the new information appears on your site automatically. Automation means less work for all of us.

How is the RSS data displayed on my site? With an RSS Parser. An RSS feed parser is a tool (usually in a scripting language such as PHP) that takes the data from our RSS feed and displays it in an easy to read format on your site by taking pre-defined RSS tags that the parser knows to look for such as <title> and <description> and parses them straight into your site.

Why is the process automated? Every time your page loads the parser loads the RSS feed URL. If a new item exists in the RSS feed, it is automatically placed on your site.

The most common sort of RSS parser are plugins for Wordpress (blog software) such as ‘rss2blog’ but custom parsers can be created easily as well (such as the one we provide for our online model and model profile RSS feeds).

RSS Parsers work by looking for tags that appear in a certain feed automatically. Some of the most common tags are item, link, and description. Parsers are designed to know that all the data that appears between an <item> and an </item> tag belongs to a certain entry on the feed, for example. It will then look for the <title></title> tags and know that the data between this is the title of the item, and so on.

Most feeds have standardized tags so that they will work with most parsers. Some feeds have custom tags for data that is specific to a certain site. For example, our online model feeds have tags like <wc:screen_name> and <wc:categories>. For custom feeds, you will need a custom parser to make the data appear intelligibly on your pages.

Webcams.com provides this parser for you so you don’t have to program one. You can use our parser to display data from our online model or model profile feeds on your site in a way that is completely customized by basic embedded PHP template

What type of RSS feeds are available? What are some real examples of how they're useful?

Blog Entry Feeds: These are some of the most popular feeds. Instead of having to update a blog manually, you can load a Webcams.com feed URL created to your specifications from our promo area into your blog software and a new entry will appear automatically every time we add a new blog entry. The blog entry feeds are standardized with some pictures and a detailed ‘blog post’ that describes the featured Webcams.com model.

Feed Hosted Gallery Feeds: You can display these feeds on your site instead of having to use gallery software to generate gallery results, or you can use these in a blog as well. These feeds include a preview thumbnail of one of our webcam galleries along with a description in a format of your choosing.

Online Model Feeds: These feeds display a real time list of Webcams.com online models. You can choose the models you would like to display on your site by parameters such as niche, user rating, model join date, and more. For example, So if you wanted to display Asian girls with a minimum rating of 7 who joined in the past week, you could do this using our Online Model Feeds!

Model Profile Feeds: If you would like Webcams.com model profile data for a particular model to display on your site in a format that matches the rest of your site all you need is our model profile feeds. These feeds display real time data from the model profile as it is updated. So for example if the model ‘why chat with me’ field is updated by the model, it will be updated on your site automatically without you having to do anything!

Sample Feeds

Blog Feeds: Most popular feeds. Blog posts that feature models with some description of them. We have both picture and movie blog feeds. You can run a blog using multiple sponsor feeds and literally never touch it and always get unique content in a completely automated way

Model Profile: You can display any model's profile values directly on your website so the profile can be developed to look however you want.

Online Models in a Table: Display our online models in an array of your choosing. This sample is of a simple table, similar to most other sites' 'iframes'

Multiple Niches on One Page: Display models in various niches all on one page, separated by niche

One Online Model: Basic sample of one large picture for one online model featured on the page. You could insert this into a side navigation bar, for example.! (close window)

[ArtWilliams]

Originally Posted by Qon

some sort of tutorial or breakdown on what's so hot about them as it applies to the adult online industry - thanks!

Here is a good one from the surfer's point of view. Click here.

---art

[Danny B]

Thanks for dropping that question Qon! Good stuff man. I'm quite the newbie and I already got loaded with questions from our webmasters on RSS feeds.

This helps me out quite nicely!