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All your friends have RSS feeds- are you feeling a little left out? How can you create a unique RSS feed that’s free, doesn’t require you to sign up for anything, or requires a Computer Science degree? Here are ten (or more) ways to get an RSS feed for free, using existing web services. I have these suggestions from an older post on the 3spots blog and selected a few that fit the above criteria.

Search results given in RSS format- many search engines provide the ability to retrieve a search in RSS format. When you subscribe to the feed, you will be automatically informed when something new comes up on the topic you suggested. While the regular Google search does not do this, the blogsearch and news searches do allow this format- which is what I mean by “or more” in the title.

1. Yahoo
2. Live Search
3. Blogdigger: Shows blog feeds and let’s you subscribe to search results.
4. RSS Micro

   Notification

5. Reminderfeed: Create a reminder message that will be delivered by feed.

   Webpage notification- if your site does not have its own feed or you want to watch another site, you can use one of these services.

6. page2rss tells you when and how a website changes.
7. RSSxl Beta creates an RSS 2.0 feed from a webpage based upon the search criteria you give it.
8. feedity creates an RSS feed from a webpage.

   Mix a feed from other existing feeds, or using the services above, to create your own feed.

9. FeedJumbler: Merge/splice several RSS or Atom-based feeds into one combined RSS and/or Atom feed.

Please accept my invitation to suggest your own services that allow you to create a unique RSS feed (considering the criteria: free, no login and no programming) in the comments below. You an keep track of this list using the social bookmarking sites below.

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