Patapage

“You can use RSS channels to allow customers to keep up on industry specific news, check weather, look for jobs, view upcoming concerts or university lectures, monitor specific websites, and much more.”

From Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web

Today we updated the Patapage service adding a new functionality: you can now use any RSS feed to display contents on your pages. An example is online here:

http://patapage.com/demo/rss.jsp

where you see two buttons which open Patapage’s blog RSS, the first one displaying abstracts, the second one displaying full contents (see the screenshot below).

The first example that comes to mind is to use your blog posts as news for your site. Or to enrich a page on a specific topic with one or more feeds of blogs or sites specialized on that topic.

Or say if you want to read from a Twitter stream, fortunately on any Twitter stream the RSS is always available.

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So for example in the unlikely case you want to feed a page with my Twitter stream, you have already three choices in Patapage: use the Twitter button, use it as RSS stream, or use the window component to load the Twitter page directly.

Almost all mature web sites / services expose their “products” in form of RSS feeds; in the example page we’ve put also

the Rolling Stone recent reviews,

the New York Times news from the home page,

and Amazon’s best sellers in books.

Of course Patapage also works “the other way round”, as supplier of RSS news: e.g. the list of comments for a page can be read in RSS form.

This is yet another step in making Patapage a complete tool for “empowering” a web site, with almost no development and maintenance effort for the users

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