Feed Discoverer

News Radars (or RSS Mashups) are subject-specific RSS-based information channels. They allow aggregating the Web articles, news, blog and message board posts, press releases, bids, newsgroup threads, images, audio and video.

There are no limitations on the Radar’s subject. It can be as simple as “HDDVD” or a bit more complicated as “high-end HDVD” or as complicated as “HDVD or Blu-Ray” or even a bit weird as “HDVD - Toshiba”. The Radars can be used to monitor a best deal on eBay, to see how is your competitor doing, to keep track of your industry’s most recent trends, to observe how the Web is buzzing upon a new music album, blockbuster movie or cool gadget’s release or just look for new job positions in your area. The list of Radar applications is very long to mention all of them.

However, you may ask - “It is all sounds good and all but how can I create these Radars, should I understand RSS or look for feeds all across the Web. I have no time for it or don’t know how to do it”.

We realized that you may have those preservations and delivered Feed Discoverer - an online tool, which makes the Radars creation almost as easy as just a regular Web Search.

Feed Discoverer is a RSS feed meta-search engine. In order to retrieve most relevant feeds, it is using MSN/Live.com API. Because the feeds are created in different formats, the tool categorizes all the returned feeds under four different categories:

• Feedburner Feeds
• Feeds
• RSS Files
• XML Files

All you need to do is specify a keyword or key phrase, which represents your Radars’ subject, generate and preview the feeds, select those which you need, and then publish your Radar.

There are several advanced features – privacy, inclusion and exclusion filters.

The feeds can be also added to existing Radars created through Radar Wizard and/or Radar Admin tools.

The whole process will take no longer than several minutes.

See Using Feed Discoverer below for more detailed description of Radar generation/update.

The service is free and all you need to do is to register.

Start using Feed Discoverer now!

Using Feed Discoverer

Feed Discoverer allows you to create or edit your own radar in several simple steps :

1. Enter radar’ search keyword or phrase, e.g. swords or “archeological discovery”+ Greece , and click Preview button
2. Four types of feeds will be generated for your radar by default: Feedburner Feeds, Feeds, RSS Files, and XML Files.
   Select desired mix of feeds by checking or un-checking checkboxes beside each feed.
3. You can preview each feed by clicking its link and reviewing the feed items in a separate window.
4. Review the results to ensure your selection criteria finds what you expect. You can modify search criteria at any time and click on Preview button again to refresh the results.
   Once you are satisfied with the quality and relevance of returned feeds and you are creating new Radar, you could click on Publish New Radar button on the bottom of the page. A pop-up page for entering your radar description will be displayed.
5. Enter radar name and radar description, check Non-Viewable Radar checkbox if you would like to make the radar to be visible only for you. You could specify which items will be added to your radar by defining word(s) that must be present in items of the feeds that you have selected. For instance, if you selected adsense as a keyword for your radar, however, would like to see only those feed items, which contain earnings keyword, enter earnings into Including all the words field. If you would also like to include the feed items with maximize keyword, you could so by entering earnings, maximize into the above feed through comma.                                                   Alternatively, you could exclude some items by specifying them in Excluding all the words field. For instance, if you don’t want to include in your Adsense radar those items, which contain CTR and eCPM keywords, you could exclude them by entering CTR, eCPM into the above box. Note: Only single words separated by comma can be entered in Including all the words/Excluding all the words filter.
6. After at least Radar Name and Radar Description fields are filled, press on Save button. Congratulations, your radar is now created! message appears. To access your new radar, click on My Radars link located on the top menu bar. You can also access your published radars from any RadarFarms page by clicking on My Radars links in the menu. Once the radar is created you can modify it’s description, add or edit RSS feeds, and attach them to your radar using RadarFarms administration module. To access it, click on My Admin link located on the top menu bar.
7. If you would like to add the returned feed items to your existing Radar created by using Radar Wizard and/or Radar Admin tools, click on Update Existing Radar button on the bottom of the page. A pop-up page for editing your radar description will be displayed.
8. Edit radar name and radar description or keep them, and click on Save button. Congratulations! You successfully updated your Radar message appears.

Please note that inclusion-exclusion and privacy filters for existing radars can be specified only using RadarFarms administration tool. To access it, click on My Admin link located on the top menu bar.

You could add multiple feeds using different keywords. For instance, if you have “Adwords” radar, you could initially find and select feeds under “Adwords Costs” key phrase and add them to the above radar and then find and select feeds under “AdWords Campaign Management” key phrase and also add to the radar using the Update Existing Radar pop-up page.