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Help me test an idea
Drew Kantor, Blogmaster writes:
One of the things I’m dabbling with for VARbuzz.com is a newsfeed page — a one-stop shop for Virginia real estate blogs and news.
***Update: The page is no longer working after migrating to our new host this afternoon. We’ll post another update once we have it functioning again.
I’ve created a test page: www.varbuzz.com/feeds. It shows the concept in action, pulling in the latest posts from about 10 local real-estate bloggers, as well as a lot of real-estate-related news stories from the state, courtesy of Google News.
It’s very much a work in progress, and there are a lot of things wrong. Notably, it looks terrible, but form will come after function. And I’m going to try to craft the Google News search a little better.
The page will show the last 25 blog items (regardless of what blog they come from), and the last 30 news stories. Two frequently-updated blogs have their own section on the right.
Anyway, I’d love you to check it out and offer feedback — blogs that should be included, problems you notice, or any general thoughts. Thanks!
I’m not seeing anything at the link — let me know when it is working…
A Great Idea - look forward to the feed! Value added - Matt & FAAR - ru watching?
Is working now!
Interesting way to capture lots of info quickly.
Andrew, great idea!
I’d love it if you’d include http://www.VirginiaRealEstateNews.net
Very nice! I like the idea of having so many sources together and readable…
Love the idea - how do you decide which blogs etc will be included in the feed?
Fantastic idea! I think it makes a lot of sense to aggregate all these feeds into a sort of clearinghouse. Having localized info mixed with a bit of national info is a good concept.