From Wendy Boswell,
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RSS, a simple technology that makes content come to you, can be used literally hundreds of different ways to simplify your life. Here are just fifty different things you can do with RSS. Not sure what RSS is? Read my article titled RSS Feeds and How They Work.

The RSS Fifty - News and Information

• get sports scores from ESPN
• be ready for anything with National Weather Service Alerts
• get content from the New York Times
• Newspapers: UK National Newspaper Feeds and U.S. Newspapers with RSS Feeds
• monitor Stocks
• keep track of Flight Delays
• stay on top of NASA Breaking News
• listen to The President of the United States radio addresses
• monitor Earthquake alerts
• subscribe to Feeds and podcasts from the Australian government

The RSS Fifty - Entertainment

• The Hype Machine: you can subscribe to any individual artist's page
• Subscribe to iTunes
• Yahoo Music is frequently updated
• Sony Music offers a TON of individual artist feeds
• Get music info straight from VH1
• Read articles from Rolling Stone
• Subscribe to any subject or user at YouTube
• NPR offers multiple RSS feeds for programs, topics, and member stations
• Tapestry Comics: a huge directory of any Web comic strip with an RSS feed.
• Apple movie trailers: be the first to watch the next new trailer

The RSS Fifty - Shopping

• RSStalker tracks price changes at Amazon
• Use RSSAuction to create customized eBay search feeds
• Sub to any search at Craigslist
• View your subscribed Craigslist feeds via the Craigslist desktop widget
• Track that deal you just scored with SimpleTracking
• Find travel deals at Travelocity
• Find travel deals at Orbitz
• Subscribe to a variety of different shopping categories with Yahoo Shopping
• Get the latest Black Friday information
• Grab a good deal at Fry's Electronics

The RSS Fifty - Technology

• All your Apple feeds in one place
• All your Microsoft feeds in one place
• Subscribe to ANY tag at del.icio.us, from DIY to Geek.
• Get the most interesting photos from the last seven days at Flickr
• Subscribe to any list that looks interesting to you at Listible
• Get the most popular downloads of the week at PCWorld
• Find out what CNet has been up to
• Download the latest software updates at Version Tracker
• Get the latest technology news from CNN
• See what's happening at Techmeme

The RSS Fifty - Misc.

• Discover new cocktail recipes at Drinknation
• Have Betty Crocker deliver a Recipe of the Day
• Create your own RSS feed for sites that don't have them with PonyFish or FeedYes
• Check out the latest British gossip
• Subscribe to a wonderful variety of various history feeds at The History Channel
• Find out what's new at the Library of Congress
• Subscribe to MTV podcasts
• Celebrate Christmas year round with My Merry Christmas feeds
• Research categories at iVillage
• Get the latest updates on migratory birds

There are a lot more uses for RSS than just fifty, but this is definitely a good start! More will be added periodically. Still not sure about this whole RSS thing? Here's a few articles that will help:

More About RSS

• What is RSS: a short and sweet explanation
• What are RSS Feeds?: Find out what feeds are and how they work.
• 10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With RSS Feeds: Just a few more ways to use RSS.
• The Best RSS Readers on the Web: My picks for the top three.

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