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Feeding Your Facebook

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These days everything we do online seems to generate a feed of one kind or another, whether its writing a blog, drafting a press release, managing a BaseCamp project or organizing a set of YouTube videos. Tools like Dapper and Feed 43 help us create feeds from “unfed” content, AideRss gives a positive tweak to the signal to noise ratio while Yahoo Pipes does, well, just about everything with everything else, while geo-tagging it on the way.

But how do you get your feeds to spread to audiences in social networks? Wiliam has an answer, at least for Facebook. It’s Blog RSS Feed Reader has the fitting, professional design you’d expect from one of Australia’s leading web design, strategy and marketing firms. This free application does more than the title suggests. As well as reading RSS feeds it can also handle ATOM and RDF data.

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The application encourages the viral spread of information within Facebook with share buttons on each feed item as well as on the feed itself. It can also alert friends through Facebook News Feeds and Mini Feeds when there are incoming RSS updates.

An important feature for businesses is the ability to embed the feed on a Facebook Page. This is ideal for a business, product, service or celebrity wanting to set up an opt-in communication with their social network fans.

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  • http://www.lukemanion.com/ Luke

    I agree with you – I use this Blog RSS Feed reader from Wiliam and it’s a great application.

    I’ve also read in their forums that they are about to launch it so you can have multiple feeds, which makes this the best RSS reader for Facebook IMHO.

  • http://www.lukemanion.com Luke

    I agree with you – I use this Blog RSS Feed reader from Wiliam and it’s a great application.

    I’ve also read in their forums that they are about to launch it so you can have multiple feeds, which makes this the best RSS reader for Facebook IMHO.

  • http://www.wiliam.com.au/ Luke

    Wiliam will be making updates to the Facebook RSS reader very soon that will allow multiple feeds.

    This has been requested many times to us and no one else seems to be doing it.

    I believe that we might also be letting people set how often it polls the feeds. (but this only creates bandwidth problems on the servers for us!!)

    Luke
    GM – Wiliam

  • http://www.wiliam.com.au Luke

    Wiliam will be making updates to the Facebook RSS reader very soon that will allow multiple feeds.

    This has been requested many times to us and no one else seems to be doing it.

    I believe that we might also be letting people set how often it polls the feeds. (but this only creates bandwidth problems on the servers for us!!)

    Luke
    GM – Wiliam

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