RSS Feed Web Widgets

As more and more people start having their own personal web publishing platform – their blog, web widgets have also started to rise in popularity.  Why?  This very blog (at least for now), has 2 web widgets:

  • Meebo (Chatting Platform)
  • Gymniee (Weight Charting Widget)

Dynamic content is very important for websites nowadays.  Visitors like to see new content once in a while… or minimally… search engines like to see fresh content once in a while.  :P   In fact, just to sort of SEO my company website, I have included a dynamic portion at the footer to showcase the latest blog entries of our company blog (which was also started recently for more or less the same reasons…)

I was thinking.. wouldn’t it be much easier if we can just put RSS feeds on the website for dynamic content generation?  i.e. when you go to my SEO page, I will have a small widget box to stream out content from RSS feeds consumed from SEOChat.  I believe such widgets are already available.  However, problem is… I am not able to choose the feeds I want to show on my website.  It is all too automatic.  What happens if it just shows some trashy article that I do not want to be associated with?

But it will be even nicer say.. if I have a way to bookmark it directly into my website’s rss feed.  Heck.. why not just write something that can interface with your delicious account so that it can retrieve all the articles that have been bookmarked with certain keywords… and expose it as a rss feed on your website? 

It will be so convenient.  I read a cool Web2.0 concept.. tag it on delicious.. and all my web visitors will be able to see it on my website.

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