How to Put Clickable RSS Feeds on MySpace with Widgetbox
Free, Flash-based Service Adds Any Blog to Your MySpace Page
Widgetbox (www.widgetbox.com) allows you to create a flash-based RSS widget, called a blidget, that displays entries from any blog on your MySpace profile. When you create or find an interesting blidget, Widgetbox's Add to MySpace function adds "buttons" to the blidget that allow readers to open the links.
To add an RSS feed to your MySpace profile by using Widgetbox, follow these steps (If you are adding a widget that someone else created, skip to step 7.):
1. Go to www.widgetbox.com and create a new account or log in.
2. Click the Make a Blidget button, which is on the left side of the page at the time of this writing.
3. In the Your Blog URL field, enter the URL of the RSS feed of the blog that you want to appear on your MySpace profile. (You can enter the blog's URL instead, but it's faster to enter the RSS feed if you know it.)
4. Adjust the width, color, and title of the blidget to coordinate with your MySpace profile. The wider version fits in the About me or Who I'd like to meet sections of the MySpace layout.
5. You can choose the title, an image for the header, and tags and a description that will help other Widgetbox users find your blidget.
6. Click Publish Blidget.
7. On the next page, click the Add to MySpace button (or the larger Get Widget button, and then Add to MySpace).
Note: You can't simply paste the code into your MySpace profile if you want the links to be clickable. When Widgetbox puts the blidget on the page, it adds extra code to create buttons that will open the links.
8. Enter your MySpace email address and password. Widgetbox needs them to edit your profile.
9. Choose the section of your MySpace profile where you want the blidget to appear. You can always change this later, and it might be easier to add it to an empty section and then rearrange it.
10. Click OK.
The Widgetbox blidget appears on your MySpace profile, at the bottom of the section you chose in step 9.
To move the blidget to a different part of your profile, log into MySpace and cut and paste the block of code.
To read an item from the RSS feed, click the item on the list and then click the black button on the bottom right of the blidget.
Widgetbox, which launched in 2006, calls itself "an open web widget marketplace and syndication platform." Blidgets available in the gallery cover topics including humor, music, news, and technology.
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- Create free, clickable RSS feeds for your MySpace profile.
- Share your blidgets and subscribe to others' blidgets.
- No coding required.
16 Comments
Post a CommentAh, thanks I've been looking for this. If its free (did you mention one way or another?) I'll try it. I find it tricky with the whole rss feed, sometimes its hard to get info to put in other than the url. I figured it out on twitter & my website but myspace has had me stumped!
Did what you said and it never worked%3F The URL for MySpace I take it the string is the one that is on your MySpace page%3F That%27s the one you paste into Widget URL to connect MySpace with the RSS feeds%3F
Thanks worked like a charm was the only reason I was bothered with myspace anyway
If it is no longer free, you could alwys utilize one of the many RSS applications on myspace.
Unfortunately, I don't think it's free any longer and will not let you publish unless you pay the monthly fee. I could be wrong.
Thanks for the info. I never would have gotten my widget up without your article!
Thanks for the info. I'm going to print this out and give it a try later!
Great. Thank you!
Jeff -- Click on the item you want to read, and then click on the button on the bottom right of the widget to open the page.
The widget hows up fine, but the links aren't clickable.