RSS application for Myspace and Facebook users

January 23rd, 2008

For Facebook users:
1. Browse applications in Facebook for “simply RSS” (you can do a search for this). If you don’t know how to do this, click on edit next to Applications in your profile. Next, click browse more applications. Do a search for simply RSS.

2. Click on “simply RSS” and add this application.

3. Skip the send invitation and click on “add feed to begin.

4. In the box where it asks for the URL of the feed, copy the URL http://lit114.edublogs.org for the class blog site and add /feed after .org, so it looks like this: http://lit114.edublogs.org/feed

5. Click add.

6. Voila! Updates to our class blog can now be seen each time you log-in to Facebook.

For Myspace users:
1. Go to SpringWidgets

2. In the box labeled feed URLs there will be a sample feed listed the (feed.feedburner.com), delete that and put in its place: http://lit114.edublogs.org/feed

3. Click the little blue plus sign to the upper right of the box. At this point you should see the sample feed in box to the right change to postings from our class blog site (this assignment should appear, for example).

4. Under Share Your Widget, click on the little myspace symbol (blue people). This will give you the code.

5. Copy and paste this code into your Myspace profile (for example, in your “about me” section).

6. Voila! Updates to our class blog can now be seen each time you log-in to Myspace