Somehow, I thought it wouldn’t be long before the “mashups” began to appear that harness the use of Yahoo! Pipes and various feeds, in order to create instantly useable widgets.
This one, which takes any feed and outputs it as a badge that can add some news feed to a blog or website has one main advantage over the many other methods that can be used to create such output, in that it is easy to pre-populate the form with details for your feed and thus provide a link so that people can get a badge containing your headlines.
Use this to promote easy syndication of your feed.
Even better, is that it also promotes your feed virally, because the link at the bottom, which says “get this for your page” is also already pre-populated with your values.
Users can alter those values, of course, but they can also easily change the background, link colours, etc., to blend in with their sites.
All you need to do to offer this to your visitors is to go and create a badge, using your site and feed details, then put it on your site. You can also copy the link location from the badge once you’ve made it, to be able to provide people with a simple link to be able to get a badge for your feed.
Badger | Via BoingBoing
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