Fedafi - Wordpress Plugin for RSS

Steve Rubel, over at Micro Persuasion lists 35 ways to use RSS

Worth taking a look if you need inspiration - everything from recipres to finding cheap flights.

If you’ve visited a site using FireFox and seen the little orange RSS symbol appear in the address bar, like this:

And wondered what it is and how to get one for your site then read on.

This live bookmark allows visitors to bookmark the site and Firefox automatically gets updates from the site. When a user bookmarks the site it looks like this in their list of bookmarks:

As you can see it shows the Plinkd blog and all recent posts.

To achieve this you need two things:

1. An RSS feed that contains the information, such as your blog, a home grown feed or your Stream Distribution feed.
2. A piece of code in the head of your web page.

The code that goes in your web page should look like this:

<link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml” title=“RSS 2.0″ href=“http://streamdistribution.com/rss/index.xml” >

As you can see it has the URL to the XML file that contains your RSS feed.

It should go inbetween the head tags.

That’s it, now when someone visits your site they will see the live bookmark image.

Here are a couple of screens from the RSS Marketing Manager (Stream Distribution) we will be launching very soon.

It’s going to be an exciting project enabling anyone to create, track and manage RSS marketing campaigns from a really simple web console.