RSS is cool, but…

~ Kevin Remde

…here’s what I really want:

Yeah.. I finally understand RSS.  I’ve been having a fun couple of days finding RSS feeds to interesting news sites – and even better, blogs of my coworkers and counterparts around the world. 

As I was reading through some of the Microsoft Employee blogs (again, because I’ve subscribed to them) I thought… “Hmm.. this is cool because you are notified when something is new.  Kinda like being a part of an email alias.  But… even more like emails generated by a rule from a sharepoint site…”

Then it hit me:   I want SharePoint to do RSS!  Simple.  Give me a little orange “RSS” link on any / all sharepoint pages I can copy/subscribe to so that I’m notified if something new shows up!  And while we’re at it – let’s just use SharePoint as a home base for our blogs, too.  Why not?!

Okay.  That’s my wish.  You folks build it for me or let me know where I can get it if it’s already available.

Kevin

UPDATE

Thanks to some great feedback, I see that my wish has been granted even before “I thought of it first!”… <sigh>

Here’s a great summary of solutions on Daniel McPherson’s blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/danielmcpherson/archive/2005/01/31/363746.aspx

Also a resource that Jim Duncan shared about how Collutions, Inc. does it on a public SharePoint site. 

http://dev.collutions.com/blogs/sample

 

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Kevin Remde President - CMIT Solutions of the Twin Cities West Kevin has held positions such as Sr. Technical Evangelist, Software Engineer, Information Systems professional, and Information Systems manager. He loves sharing helpful new solutions and technologies with his IT professional peers, and is passionate about helping people and businesses succeed through the intelligent application of information technology.

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