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- stisaac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Although http://www.feed43.com is more advanced and established, it is still a great idea. (Digg breaks the link and I don't know how to fix it)
- gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Interesting idea, though "which email addresses track your site" would be pretty valuable information to the page owners, I wonder if that's their biz.
- simX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This is inaccurate. The title implies that you will be able to get an RSS feed for any site that doesn't have one. Instead, the site simply sends you an e-mail whenever the page changes. That's not RSS, and it's not what I want, either.
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Dugg down as spam.
Also, if it's an RSS feed that's missing, why the ***** would I want to recieve an e-mail each time the page is updated.
Give me an RSS feed. Without my e-mail being submitted.
This is ridiculous. - onnoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Don't worry, we hate it when people mess with our email addresses, so we will always respect the privacy of the Follow That Page users. If there might be any change in the terms and conditions, we will let our users know via email, so that they can opt out if they don't like it.
- thread, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5How about building a site-parsing script using nothing but a fancy ajax interface? Turn any page into an RSS feed. Access others' scripts. This service looks awesome.
http://www.dappit.com/ - deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6...to harvest and sell e-mail addresses.
Isn't subby spamming?
/dugg down - dizzyG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not quite the same as an RSS feed, but Leopard's new "Web Clip" should be pretty handy for keeping updated with websites.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/dashboard.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why should a full feed be provided? Most rss readers have the ability to "click on a link" to read the full story.
It's the website owners' decision on how they will serve their content. You get to decide if you're going to look at it, not how. - DooDooFace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Who are you petitioning, every site on the web? Shouldn't you just send a request to the appropriate site?
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Don't worry, we hate it when people mess with our email addresses, so we will always respect the privacy of the Follow That Page users."
Unfortunately, those who do mess with people's e-mail addresses would make that same claim.
It is part of their deceptive ways.
So how can one trust such a claim, offered without proof? - protocoI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This definitely used to be a feature in Internet Explorer 5 for OS X. I used it all the time, and it told me when a page updated with a popup, alert sound, email, and would check up to every minute if need be.
Has noone yet made a decent app/plugin to do this (the popup/alert/etc, not the email)? If it exists, I'd love to own it! - Sparks123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Sounds to me a great idea!!
- danglerman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3i like this idea, but from my expreience, these RSS feed distrbutors that aren't directly from the website usually end up messing all the formatting up, which makes it very unusable and non-reliable
- muzzi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2make sure you sign the petition against partial feeds while you are at this kind of thing - http://www.fullfeeds.com/
- ioannusdeverani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty neat.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Advertise your site by bad mouthing it, that's awesome!
- tpaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1First thing I thought was ... why not create a third party RSS feed instead of emailing me the updates. Most sites that don't have RSS are old school and still allow you to signup for email updates. I prefer google reader to getting even more emails.
Thanks for the link, i'll check these guys out. - hanslope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Isn't this just google alerts and the like, I have used several other services just like this, nothing new here.
- colinm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks like it would generate lots of false-positives. From the FAQ page:
"How does Follow That Page handle rotating banners and random content? They are regarded as changes. We’re working on a way to ignore them, but probably the remedy will depend on cooperation from the webmaster."
I wrote a program called WebMon ages ago that checks for page updates and allows you to specify static text before and after the bit you're interested in (e.g. to monitor a page containing "The latest version is 1.2. You can download it here", you'd specify "version is" and "You"). - Darhazer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can use "Website watcher" to monitor all web-pages you want.
(this is a stand-alone application, not a web-service) - rectagon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Well, digg you own site works sometimes.... it's just gonna encourage others. :(
- keesj, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2yes you do
- cjakeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sounds very similar to www.ChangeDetection.com which is a reliable and free service - very useful for monitoring Job Vacancy pages :)
One weakness of ChangeDetection is that you can't see a list of pages that you've requested. - JuyLe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Great for mobile-review.com which really lacks a rss feed.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2no he doesn't.
:-)
(and maybe 'follow that page' will change their name to 'the harvester' ) - onnoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Harvester? I'm not going to sell the email addresses of the Follow That Page users. It says so in the terms of use; you may sue me if I break my own rules. My name is Onno Zweers, and I suggest you google a bit to see if I still seem such a kind of person. I detest spammers and their habits.
- garraeth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1supernova17 is one of those douches who has no life outside digg.com and submits w/ friends the lamest articles.
Marked as spam.
Can we mark users as spammers? - onnoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"So how can one trust such a claim, offered without proof?"
How can I prove it?
I hope the terms & conditions speak for themselves. - choda, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Don't digg yourself to toot your own horn.
-1 for spam
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