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MyMSN RSS Is Finally Here

MyMSN eagerly anticipated RSS reader feature launched this morning. Here’s the information page. Interestingly, the page actually points out the other RSS reader products out there, like RSS Bandit and NewsGator, in case users want to use them, and gives tips on how to add feeds to them. Here’s the subscribe URL:

http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=http://sample.com/rss.xml&tt=CENTRALDIRECTORY&ru=http://sample.com

You can also search for feeds, and its quite clear that MSNSearchBot has been crawling for feeds, since every site I searched for is already available. Just enter the site’s name in the search box. Anything you search for becomes listed as a search RSS feed, if you want it. You can choose to display 1-5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 headlines, and to only show headlines from the last 1-7, 14, 21, 28, 35, or 365 days. Oddly, MyMSN is currently showing headlines from a week ago. MyMSN is caching the feeds somewhere, and needs to update the cache, since it seems to be missing recent posts. You can choose to display headlines and summaries, or headlines only, with summaries when you roll over them. Each feed box says “Copyright 2005″ in the bottom left hand corner. I appreciate that.

Here are some screenshots:
MyMSN RSS in action
Adding an RSS feed

January 18th, 2005 Posted by Nathan Weinberg | MSN, Blogs | 3 comments