Good day everyone!  I'm Jeff N Marquis at the business desk and I have a very powerful little gem to share with you.

This article recently came across my desk and I thought that with the holiday season, it would come in great handy for those of you who are inclined towards buying from eBay.

Enjoy!

 

 

 

Use RSS to Track eBay with fEEdBaY

 

By Michael McCarty

 

Thursday, November 29, 2007

 

eBay has got to be the hottest place on the net for finding great deals on just about anything. I love to surf the eBay site just to see what's up for grabs at any given moment.eBay does have a lot of links and other material to wade through. This is especially a problem when you're seeing their site through the eyes of JAWS or Window Eyes. Well, life is about to get a lot easier for those of us who love to shop eBay.

 

I'm happy to introduce you to fEEdBaY, where you can keep track of listed items on eBay through RSS technology.

 

RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is technology that allows certain programs called RSS readers to download new content from an RSS feed to your computer. RSS feeds are often found on blogs or forums and contain the latest posts to that blog or forum. An RSS feed can also be found on news sites and contains the latest articles found on that site. Just like an email program such as Microsoft Outlook saves you time by checking for new mail for you and downloading it so that you can view it, the RSS reader checks for updates for you and as soon as it sees an update, it will download it to your computer and can notify you by a popup message or dialog, etc.

 

The first thing you'll notice about the fEEdBaY site is that all the standard eBay catagories are listed. Simply click on the catagory of your choice and you'll be presented with another page full of RSS feeds.

 

The next section of note is their listing of the most popular feeds. Want to see what others are interested in? Simply add one of these links to your aggrigator and you'll be informed within minutes.

 

Now, if that weren't enough, there's a "Create a Custom eBay Search Filter for RSS" link that does exactly what it says. Enter your search Keywords, choose the number of results, the eBay catagory, and click the search button. You'll have a chance to preview the feed and if you like what you see, you can add it to your news aggrigator or or RSS reader. How cool is that?

 

Click this link to start tracking eBay with fEEdBaY:

 

http://www.feedbay.net.

 

Posted by Michael McCarty at 11:44 AM

 

http://fredsheadcompanion.blogspot.com/2006/02/use-rss-to-track-ebay-with-feedbay.html
 

At the business desk, I'm Jeff N Marquis wishing you a very pleasant evening.