We’ve just added RSS feeds to every player’s profile page. Most people won’t understand what these are for, or why we’ve added them so I thought I’d write a little bit about it. Eventually I hope to create a whole page about RSS feeds to educate anybody who cares to learn about the magic of RSS.

To put it as simple as possible, RSS allows you to take all of the information you want to know and bring it all together into one place. All you need is an RSS reader - whether you use Netvibes, Pageflakes, Google Reader, Yahoo!, or you make your own. Once you have a reader, you can set about importing all of the news articles and information you want from any RSS enabled website, and the result is your own sort of newspaper, with only the information you want to see.

For example, on Netvibes, I import digg news, sports from The Toronto Star, stock news from TheStreet, and tech news from TechCrunch (among other things). That in and of itself is very handy and cuts down on the number of websites I have to visit each day, but I use RSS for something else as well…

On Netvibes, I also have a personal tab, and I use it to track my information at various different websites I am a member of. I use it to list my 43 Things, my Gmail, my eBay auctions and my personal blog. Well, now I can also use it to track Poker Underworld comments, stories, strategies, and winners. I can also be specific about it - I can track MY details, or I can track a friend’s, or the entire site’s. This gives me an easy way to be notified when things are happing at Poker Underworld even when I’m not actually at the website. I find RSS very handy and hopefully a lot of our players will as well.

Now if we could only get the site live… so much to do!

Ryan
The Poker Underworld Team