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| olav |
 Feb 8 2004, 04:06 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Retired Members Posts: 1,107 Joined: 28-December 02 From: Los Gatos, CA. USA Member No.: 34 Region Association: None  |
Why not publish the classifieds as an RSS feed. That way I can subscribe to the classifieds via my favorite RSS news reader and see new items pop up more conveniently than always having to come to the site and checking.
RSS 2.0 or something. It's pretty easy, when a new ad comes in write out a new static file in RSS format and provide a link in the classifieds section. It's read only so there can be no abuse. |
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| Brad Roberts |
Feb 8 2004, 04:50 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 19,148 Joined: 23-December 02 Member No.: 8 Region Association: None |
Olav,
we send out a email every time somebody lists something new in classifieds. It is up to the users to turn this function on. It sends you every new post and the description with a link to the actual post in case they posted pics. I have only looked at the classifieds 8-10 times over the last 14 months. I'm usually scanning them for porn pics otherwise I see every post thru email. It is called "email notification" and you can even "watch" certain area's of the classifieds and not all the sub topics. I like your idea, but it appears we are already doing something similar. B |
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| olav |
Feb 8 2004, 07:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Retired Members Posts: 1,107 Joined: 28-December 02 From: Los Gatos, CA. USA Member No.: 34 Region Association: None |
Brad,
I'm familiar with email notification. RSS is a way to syndicate your classifieds. So, for example, if someone has a news reader they can aggregate porsche classifieds. It's a publish/subscribe type mechanism. Rather than having a scattered set of emails you always see the RSS syndicated ads in one place too. Also, with email notification you have to be a member. With syndication you don't and thus can increase exposure yet another way. One benefit is another site could subscribe to your classifieds RSS feed and potentially drive traffic to the 914world.com site. I would like to subscribe to the RSS feed and while I am browsing my RSS subscriptions I can see the all the ads with the pictures and all depending on the RSS format that is used. Right now, I have a news reader that I subscribe to many web site feeds so I can at a glance see such things as yahoo news, slashdot, new york times, etc. If I see an interesting article I click the link and to to their site. It's an non competing mechanism with email notification allow another way to get at data from this site while promoting it. I don't know if you know about RSS but it is going to be more common in the future and I thought it would be great if this site would be an early adopter. Another benefit to RSS feeds is your potential audience can increase. Other web sites could subscribe to your feeds and drive traffic to the club. Goto www.bloglines.com and check out that site. It's a web based RSS aggregator. A well known site, Craiglist offers RSS feeds of all their listings and I subscribe to the job ones. I instantly get to see all the new jobs that are posted and click through on interesting ones. Keep it in mind to the future anyway. |
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| Gint |
Feb 8 2004, 08:26 PM
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Mike Ginter Group: Admin Posts: 16,082 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Denver CO. Member No.: 20 Region Association: Rocky Mountains  |
I'll look into it.
In my spare time. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) BTW, I got an opportunity to try your shifter Olav. Works great (standing still anyway). What throw reduction is your rennshifter? |
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| olav |
Feb 8 2004, 09:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Retired Members Posts: 1,107 Joined: 28-December 02 From: Los Gatos, CA. USA Member No.: 34 Region Association: None |
Hey Gint,
The RSS would be easy just like the classifieds page for the ads except RSS. RSS Info The rennshift is 30% reduction. I think it's perfect. Can't wait to get im my car again. It's been about 5 months. |
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