RSS Plumbing with Yahoo! Pipes - Practical Ecommerce
Clicking the small arrow at the end of the URL field, will send Pipes in search of the specified RSS feed. Once the feed is located the Fetch Feed box — for lack of a better term — changes color. Grabbing the circle at the bottom of this box allows the user to connect the RSS feed to the Pipe Output. The titles from the RSS feed’s items are displayed in a debugger at the bottom of the interface.
Back in the Fetch Feed dialog box, a second RSS feed may be added. Simply click the plus sign next to the work URL. A second URL field will appear, and the new RSS feed URL may be pasted in place. Now the new Pipe is aggregating items from two distinct feeds.
Moving to the Operators modules in the left hand navigation, a filter may be applied to the Pipe. In the example, the Pipe will be excluding any items with titles that contain the term “SEO.”
To save a feed, simple click “Save” in the upper right. Once the Pipe is saved, it can be located under My Pipes on the Pipes website, and even published. For example, the Pipe created for this article is available for anyone to see.
Finally, the pipe can be added to a website as a Pipes Badge. Simply click the “Get as a Badge” link from the Pipe’s page to get the embed code necessary to add the Pipe to any website.
Summing Up
The example feed could be used to stay up-to-date about trends in ecommerce. Using similar techniques, Internet merchants can create any number of Pipes that collect articles, seek out business intelligence, or provide content from product detail pages.
Pipes may also be used to open and read spreadsheets, interact with web services, and output RSS feeds for others to use.
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Adding RSS feeds to Outlook - PC Advisor
If you are having trouble adding an RSS feed to Outlook, our Helproom Editor can help.
QUESTION I want to subscribe to the BBC Spanish Language RSS feed to receive a Spanish phrase each day. This feed is offered at bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish. However, when I click the Subscribe button it just opens a new page with a list of words.
I have some other RSS feeds that work fine in Outlook 2010, but this feed does not appear anywhere. I'm running Windows 7. What am I doing wrong? Dirty Dick
HELPROOM ANSWER The feed you're trying to add is a standard XML feed. When you click on the subscribe link, your browser is displaying the raw XML code rather than automatically subscribing Outlook to the feed.
To subscribe to this feed in Outlook, open your email client and click File, Account Settings. Select the RSS Feeds tab and click the New button in the window that pops up.
Head back to the BBC website. Rather than left-clicking the Subscribe button, right-click it and select Copy shortcut.
(This instruction is for Internet Explorer users; if you use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, choose ‘Copy link address' instead.)
Back in Outlook, paste the link into the ‘New RSS Feed' box. Click Add to subscribe to that feed.
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