RSS and CSS Feedback

[jtomm]

Matt, I'm fairly familiar with RSS. Bloglines has the biggest market share by far. You need to have buttons for them. Here's how to add subscription buttons:

http://www.bloglines.com/about/subscribe

You should use one of the first two in the left hand column. Why? Because that little icon is going to be the standard from here on out:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mozilla,_Internet_Explorer_adopt_universal_RSS_symbol

I use Bloglines. A lot. But frankly, as you have it set up now, I would not use the RSS feature on Ihub as you have it designed. In Bloglines, all that shows up are the Ihub headlines, then I have to click through to Ihub. You'd be better off sending the entire post and experimenting with ads in the feed. But even that doesn't make much sense because most people will want to read more than one message, so I'd think they'll be coming to the website. Gotta do that to post anyway.

Here's something you could offer by RSS that I think would be great. A stock price alert feature. Yes, a lot of brokerage accounts allow you to set alerts, but there's usually some sort of limit on the number of symbols. If I could read about a stock on Ihub and then create an rss alert feed right within Ihub, that would be great. Something simple like:

Enter ticker symbol:

Price rises to:

Price falls to:

Click a button and it creates a feed for whenver either of those two things occur. Use Yahoo quotes because they cover markets from all around the world. I may see a great stock, but am not interested unless it gets down to a certain price level, and that might be three months from now. It's tough to remember all your target prices on a regular watch list. Frankly, I'd rather not have to look at all the prices, but just be notified whenever one hits my price target. Then I can start paying closer attention.

Just set a feed for it and then don't have to look at it on a daily basis.

Anyway, just an idea. I have no idea how tough it would be to implement.

But you should add Bloglines to your ibox on feed readers.