One of the problems with a typical MySpace profile is that it’s actually pretty static except for any comments you might receive. One of the things I’ve been looking for is a way to show a RSS feed on my MySpace profile, so that I display content that I publish on this site.
There are plenty of widgets out there that will display RSS feeds. The only problem was that I couldn’t actually find one that would work properly with MySpace because MySpace won’t accept JavaScript or PHP (which is what these RSS widgets are generally written in).
Fortunately, The Spring Box, is now offering a RSS reader widget that will work with MySpace. the widget is very easy to set up, and allows you to specify the size of the resulting RSS reader widget, and of course allows you to enter one or more RSS feed URLs.
I haven’t been able to get the widget to work perfectly on my profile, and I suspect that has something to do with the widget sitting inside a div. The widget works perfectly in a non-div profile (and appears as you see in the demo above).
The Spring Box also offers other widgets, such as a clock, NFL game tracker and weather room, as well as versions of these widgets that you can download onto your computer.
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Responses to “Show RSS feeds on your MySpace profile”
November 29th, 2006 at 11:57 am
Problem with RSS Feed in WordPress.
I have a subdomain that I installed wordpress for another blog site, but the subdomain site's rss feed points to my parent site.
Can anyone come up with any suggestions?
December 10th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Hi,
I’ve checked out that page and the url you give doesn’t work any more. Has the application gone?
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:22 pm
@ Joe:
you´ll find another great tool, to show WP Entrys on MySpace here:
February 25th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
What good is an rss reader on myspace if the links in flash are disabled?…so big deal I can read the headlines from the feeds I set up but can’t link to the stories.
any way to get around this?
February 28th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Thanks a bunch. I was looking all over for this, but with the age of SEO and myspace gadgets, you can never really find anything useful.
Thanks for the time you saved me.
I owe ya one!
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March 7th, 2007 at 6:45 am
I too found the problem of links being disabled in flash as an issue. I’m currently working on getting around that by creating a php dynamic image rss reader. So the code on my page would be something like. Leaving tags out in case this board blocks them.
a href=mysite.com/showarticle.php?page=1 img src=mysite.com/article1.jpg
This would call the dynamic image, which would then read the rss feed and display the first article in the list, I could continue down the list and just change the above codes numbers, and call each article respectively, showing the text inside the dynamic jpg. The showarticle.php page would just be a forward link that would take me to the correct article. So by placing 10 links and 10 images on my page, I could essentially read in any rss feed and make each of them clickable.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Just to add to the above, i’ve now created a full working site, that let’s users customize their colors, http://www.rssonmyspace.com
November 28th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I want to put the Dilbert comic strip RSS feed on my myspace page, but it is not just text and therefore doesn’t work with the suggestions above. Am I out of luck or do you know of any alternative?
December 13th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Excellent, Social marketing is an adaptable approach, increasingly being used to achieve and sustain behaviour goals on a range of social issues, it is a very good post .
Cheers,
Andy Colleman
November 1st, 2006 at 3:21 am
Exactly what I was looking for, Thanks.