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There are many benefits for using RSS feeds on your website. News agencies keep their sites up to date and by selecting appropriate feeds this information can be placed on to your site with links through for the entire story. It helps with visitor retention and if users know that relevant content will be on the site a recent survey has revealed that users are 72% more likely to return.
RSS feeds are published for this purpose and we can capture this information and reuse it subject to various conditions. The main criteria is that the feed is subject to a fair use policy. The best way around this is to save the feed to a database and every time the page is requested to check with the database the time the last update was made and if it was older than a predefined time then the feed will update from the source and also update the copy in the local database. This also helps to speed page loads up, as an additional RSS feed lookup does add time to a page load, making it quicker to read from a local copy. By using out software to manage your feeds, you can update the feed source as often as you like as well as update the refresh time interval.
Below are the headlines and a brief description from the BBC News technology section:
Privacy rights 'fragile' in 2007 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:21:46 GMT
Surveillance is "endemic" in more nations than ever, a report by campaigners for personal privacy claims.
Cloudy visions of the future Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:29:17 GMT
Regular commentator Bill Thompson looks ahead at the technologies that could become big in 2008
NY Times Square ball 'goes green' Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:28:22 GMT
The Times Square New Year's Eve Ball is celebrating its 100th birthday by going green with energy-efficient LEDs.
Web icon set to be discontinued Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:54:26 GMT
The Netscape Navigator browser will cease development because of a lack of users, its owners say.
Parents warned of gadget dangers Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:12:59 GMT
Warnings to parents about the dangers to children of new technology come from Surrey Police.
In pictures: A year in technology Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:59:30 GMT
A look back at some of the technology stories that made headlines in 2007.
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