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Wigitize your RSS feeds

Posted by dvanarsd on March 4, 2008

MakeUseOf has a review of Wigitize, which allows you to create a widget which turns RSS feeds to embeddable blog widgets.

“If you ever need to add some RSS feed to your website, Wigitize offers a quick and simple way to do that. No registration required, just enter the address of the website whose feed you want to use and click “Generate blog widget”. Once the widget is ready you can easily customize its style and visual appearance.”

Features

  • Convert any RSS feed to a web widget.
  • Embed widgets onto your blog or social networking profile.
  • Customize widget: choose visual style, show/hide title and date, set number of feeds to be shown etc.
  • No registration or sign up required.

Now, if we can only learn to agree on how to spell “widget”….

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Add an RSS feed yourself

Posted by dvanarsd on February 5, 2008

If you’re a user of RSS feeds, then you can add an RSS feed even if none exist, to your own site or document or someone else’s.

RSSPECT (with apologies to Aretha Franklin!)  allows you to add RSS feeds to someone else’s site (AnySite), your own site (MySite), or podcast feeds for use with iTunes.

RSS Feed Reader lets you add an RSS feed to your own pages.

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