Micro Persuasion: 35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today

Almost every day I find a completely new way to use RSS feeds that I hadn't seen before. So, with that here are 35 ways you can use RSS feeds today. in most cases, they go beyond news and blogs.

1. Track drunk athletes (RSS)
2. Identify key blog phrases and themes (RSS)
3. Real-time severe weather alerts (RSS)
4. Subscribe to personal reminders
5. See what sports is on HDTV tonight (RSS)
6. Get notified when that must-have item pops up on eBay (RSS)
7. Watch for new music on iTunes (RSS)
8. Monitor for airport delays (RSS)
9. Track new software releases (RSS)
10. Subscribe to movie reviews (RSS)
11. Watch for cheap Travelocity airfares or on Expedia
12. Get the latest currency exchange rates (RSS)
13. Subscribe to traffic updates (RSS)
14. Read the Bible one verse at a time (RSS)
15. Check out new recipes that come to you (RSS)
16. Track your favorite baseball team
17. Track your favorite football team
18. Track your favorite basketball team
19. Track your favorite hockey team
20. Get your horoscope (RSS)
21. Monitor the latest on bird flu (RSS)
22. Assess the latest computer threats (RSS)
23. Track the latest video games for Xbox (RSS) or Playstation (RSS)
24. Get the tides for virtually any coast in the world
25. Read the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci one day at a time (RSS)
26. Subscribe to TV listings
27. Track the latest questions on Yahoo Answers (RSS)
28. Subscribe to tee times (RSS)
29. Peruse the latest photos on Flickr (RSS)
30. Scan the latest videos on YouTube (RSS)
31. Get hotel deals from Marriott (RSS)
32. Learn a new word every day using RSS (RSS)
33. Track the latest sales with Dealcatcher (RSS)
34. Subscribe to the Target circular (RSS)
35. Track the latest uses for RSS

(Note: CA, Marriott and Expedia are Edelman clients)

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You can also read through the Bible in a year here (King James Version) http://www.countrykeepers.com/kjv/?feed=rss2 or here (New American Standard Bible) http://www.countrykeepers.com/nasb/?feed=rss2.

Posted by: garypetersen | Monday, June 19, 2006 at 01:27 PM

37. Get notified of singles events in your city:
http://www.rateordate.com/date/us/
http://www.rateordate.com/date/uk/

Posted by: Sean | Monday, June 19, 2006 at 01:52 PM

here is another cool one by myself.

Feedr (Flash application)
displays your RSS Content by Flick Images.

Experiment 3:
http://blog.insnet.de/2006/flashr-experiment/

Posted by: Fabian Nöthe | Monday, June 19, 2006 at 02:18 PM

Share calendar with family/friends/coworkers.

http://www.rsscalendar.com/rss/

Great post, Steve!

Posted by: Linton Chiswick | Monday, June 19, 2006 at 04:11 PM

Target? Please. Sears is where America Shops
http://sears.simplefeed.net

Posted by: joebob | Monday, June 19, 2006 at 11:38 PM

Hi,
I've published a white paper with 100 way to use RSS !
It's available right here !
http://vtech.canalblog.com/archives/2006/04/26/1767484.html

Posted by: Aref | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 05:46 AM

Use RSS to set up with RMail email alerts of the latest postings on great blogs like this one.

Posted by: Hope Leman | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 05:55 AM

How about finding out if your Myspace friend is single?

Posted by: Jason | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 09:04 AM

Nice list. Another 25 from Arc90, not much overlap:

http://lab.arc90.com/2006/06/25_new_ways_to_use_rss.php

Posted by: Richard Ziade | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 10:32 AM

You can also get reviews of the latest DVDs:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/index.xml

Posted by: Geoffrey Kleinman | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 12:28 PM

Daily - scholarly, classy - biography: http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/rss.xml

Posted by: Roop | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 01:36 PM

Watch weather conditions from a beacon in the gulf of Maine
http://www.gomoos.org/buoy/buoy_data.shtml

Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 03:07 PM

Read great zombie fiction chapter a day

Posted by: Charles | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 03:29 PM

I have wanted an application running at home which monitors an RSS feed I can control. Then at work I could add download links to that feed and have the files ready for me later.

Posted by: ryanknapper | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 04:59 PM

Vote for lingerie models and subscribe to the top 20 voted by users: http://playlingerie.com and RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sexy-lingerie

Posted by: hombrelobo | Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 07:39 AM

See what the bible says about the news: http://say4.com and RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/bible-news

Posted by: hombrelobo | Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 07:40 AM

Here is a fun one, track a PMS cycle... pmsbyrss.com

I plan my fishing trips with ease.

Posted by: Dave | Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 11:11 AM

I have a really unique idea. Maybe you should give a brief comment about what RSS is?

Posted by: Dan | Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 12:57 PM

It would help if you started at the beginning. Or, are you just infatuated with the technology?

Posted by: Robert McCall | Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 04:53 PM

At Pinoy Cosplay, we use RSS in PiP to track Filipino cosplay across the blogosphere.

Posted by: Mike Abundo | Friday, June 23, 2006 at 12:23 PM

Beeplet seems to down. Some other nice tool to get personal alerts through rss:

http://www.rsscalendar.com

Posted by: Bart | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 12:26 PM

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Another important functionality of FeedChain script is link creation. It could be used to link specific keywords to resources that someone is trying to promote, or to earn money by affiliation. FeedChain script is in "peace" with Adsense TOS because it is NOT a senseless link farm - each page provides a valid resource that is a combination of Google, Yahoo, MSN search feeds. Check out FeedChain Live Demo and 2 min Video demo/tutorial. FeedChain is extremely easy to use: the script doesn't require mySQL db, and could be installed almost everywhere. Deployment of additional resource pages couldn't be easier: just rename and upload renamed file, that doesn't need to be opened. Script uses smartie templating system that could be easily modified in Dreamweaver. Obtaining this script at the moment is a bit confusing: you'll have to create a free account Studio DotBeyond.com website, then pay for subscription that will enable your access to downloads. Check out DotBeyond's testimonials, or ask actual owners that could be found at
DigitalPoint forums.