chickenhead
02-04-2009, 12:32 PM
I've been playing around with this stuff quite a bit for this website I'm doing (which is really just a big playground)...a lot of these partnerships have a lot of great data, but it's all locked up on their websites, some of it in email newsletters...but I don't think any of them offer feeds for anything.
Ran across this site which looks very promising, especially on the Email-to-RSS front (which for some reason is nowhere near as easy to find as RSS-to-Email)
http://www.xfruits.com/
There are some other clunky ways to do email to rss (like redirecting the emails to a special blog, which posts them, and you get a feed from that)...but this one looks pretty clean.
Why is email to RSS cool? Beyond just reading your email with a reader, it unlocks content.
If you happen to run a horse racing blog like many here do, and you'd like to have say a Carryover Watch widget on the sidebar that updates daily with any carryovers, just set up a carryover watch email address, send your watch notices to that email -- convert it to RSS, reburn the feed in feedburner (if you want), and voila, you've got a portable, subscribable carryover (or horses to watch, or trainer, or whatever) feed. Slap that bad boy on your sidebar...or, put a gadget of it right on your Google Homepage. Carryovers at a glance.
For me, I can convert the regular news emails these partnerships send out to their members into feeds, and sum them all together into a stream. Voila, a niche news site.
This stuff is cool.
Ran across this site which looks very promising, especially on the Email-to-RSS front (which for some reason is nowhere near as easy to find as RSS-to-Email)
http://www.xfruits.com/
There are some other clunky ways to do email to rss (like redirecting the emails to a special blog, which posts them, and you get a feed from that)...but this one looks pretty clean.
Why is email to RSS cool? Beyond just reading your email with a reader, it unlocks content.
If you happen to run a horse racing blog like many here do, and you'd like to have say a Carryover Watch widget on the sidebar that updates daily with any carryovers, just set up a carryover watch email address, send your watch notices to that email -- convert it to RSS, reburn the feed in feedburner (if you want), and voila, you've got a portable, subscribable carryover (or horses to watch, or trainer, or whatever) feed. Slap that bad boy on your sidebar...or, put a gadget of it right on your Google Homepage. Carryovers at a glance.
For me, I can convert the regular news emails these partnerships send out to their members into feeds, and sum them all together into a stream. Voila, a niche news site.
This stuff is cool.