RSS Shot released

You might have noticed that some of the links on my blog that previously displayed a PreviewShot (image of the linked web site) now display RSS information from the linked site. This new capability is called RSS Shot and it’s the latest improvement & enhancement that we added to the Snap Shots product.

This is how it works in plain words:

  • An Expanded View would show if the link is to a specific article or to a blog post permalink
  • An Excerpts View would show if the link is to a site that has an RSS feed accosiated with it. Typically you will see 2-4 headlines depends on the size of the bubble

A more detailed & technical description is avlaiable on the Snap blog.  

The more I use it I find it more and more useful. In many cases it is faster for me to visit hover over the links on my site’s blogroll and see thier latest headlines than to launch an RSS reader (Netvibes has become really slow for me lately, not sure why). What do you think?



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About JayMeydad

Yovav "Jay" Meydad. Married+3. Lives in Los Angeles. Writes about internet, technology, mobile, football, music, travel and fatherhood. Currently works as VP of Product for Snap.com
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One Response to RSS Shot released

  1. Harrell says:

    My blog publishes RSS through Feedburner. But snapshot previews of my blog doesn’t display my blog as RSS publishing (no RSS preview). Why is this so?
    What do I have to do for my blog to have a RSS preview with a snapshot preview?

    Thanks in advance.

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