Useful Tuesday : RSS Feeds Anytime with Ponyfish

Published on Tuesday, June 10, 2008

What happens when you want updates from a website that doesn’t have an RSS feed? If there is a certain site you go to and you’d like to know when the page is updated, Ponyfish can help. Here is how I’ve used it.

I like Digg but I never really log in, who has time to log into so many websites everyday? Not me, not you! But I do visit some sections of Digg regularly to browse the top stories. So as an example I went to PonyFish and plugged in http://digg.com/security and went through the next steps until the feed was created. Now maybe there is a feature in my Digg account that can send these notifcations, but I want to do this my way.

If you’ll remember back to our last Useful Tuesday, I introduced IMFeeds.com. So I sent the feed to the RSS bot.

Next Tuesday I’ll be discussing RSS again and will let you know how the Ponyfish service is working. It almost seems too good to be true! Visit Ponyfish to see all of the sites that other users are creating RSS feeds for; it’s amazing which popular sites do not have RSS yet on their homepages!