rss feeds

looking for customised newsfeeds

[topr8]

been reading all the previous threads today about rss.

we are looking for a filtered news feed or very specific news to display on a commercial site.

eg i can see how to subscribe to a service (free or pay) to produce a feed about say FOOTBALL but i don't want that - i only want news about "a specific football team" (example only)

is it either possible to filter the newsfeed or better still find a service which could provide some kind of aggregated newsfeeds on the exact subject i wanted.

any pointers or url's of providers (sticky if url drop not appropriate) would be of a great help thanks.

i'm looking to see the
"what is possible" and "overview of how to"

as will be outing the work, but need to know what to ask for

[jackofalltrades]

scotsman.com does good customisable feeds - you can specify topic, no of headlines, font size and colour, etc.

There are a lot of topics to choose from.

the only thing is that the feed places a small "get live news feeds at scotsman.com logo" on the top of the news feeds.

[txbakers]

I use moreover.com:

w.moreover.com

no logos, only a little link at the bottom of the feeds.

[lorax]

is it either possible to filter the newsfeed or better still find a service which could provide some kind of aggregated newsfeeds on the exact subject i wanted.

I've been doing some research on this myself. In my chosen topic area there are no targeted RSS data feeds. The only hope I have is subscribing to a generic source and while they offer some filtering, it's still too wide-open for my liking. So - I'm building my own RSS feed structure and working on the top organizations that produce the news I want and getting them to implement my code. I get the news feeds I want and they have the code to give to other websites interested in this particular topic area. :)

This may not apply in your situation but it's something to think about.

GB

[jackofalltrades]

[freesticky.com...]

directory of content feeds. Pretty useful and includes some affiliate programmes.

The site classes each feed by the geographic area it covers and has them all listed by category.

[chiyo]

there is a lot of development going on in this area. I belive that the term would be "aggregated feeds" (DO a search on google, - it might still return relevant results!) There are some programs you can use, but its only recently that it seems people have been working on feeds that can select from a set of feeds by subject or keyword. There are some ecellent resources on the web and some news services offering aggregated feeds from a set of feeds on keyword searches. Stick mail me if you want the URL's as i cant post them here.

[topr8]

thanks ... everyone!

have more to go on now, wow its such a massive area, i'd not even touched on before

[roscoepico]

I use [newsisfree.com...] they have over 3400 feeds listed for just about every category.

[topr8]

making good progress, but found a stumbling block.

the aggregators i've found will supply news headings but not summaries as well,

i've been told this is a copyright issue, sounds plausable to me, ... any thoughts?