RSS feeds now available to help relatives of the victims of the Tsunami tragedy to trace missing people.
January 08, 2005 (PRLEAP.COM) Technology News
Feedfire.com, a Cheshire UK based provider of RSS [Rich Site Syndication] 'scraping' facilities have today released the following 'scraped' RSS feeds in order to help propogate the information so desperately sought, by family and friends of the missing or deceased in South East Asia.Previously, no RSS feeds were available and it is intended that the utilisation of the technology which carries information effortlessly around the Internet, will help people in their searches.
The following feeds have been created:
From English language webpage:
Victims from Tsunami in Thailand- http://www.phuketitcity.com
FEED: http://www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=004204
From Thai Language webpage:
http://www.disaster.go.th
FEED:
http://www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=004206
From English/Thai language webpage: Narenthorn EMS Center -Tracing Victims of Tsunami disaster
http://www.narenthorn.or.th
FEED:
http://www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=004208
Feeds are refreshed hourly and will remain in place until further notice.
Furthermore, a donations RSS feed from the DEC Tsunami Earthquake Appeal webpage has been created and this is available at:
http://www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=004168
RSS users are encouraged to propogate both the tracing services and the donations feeds, as widely as possible.
FeedFire.com
http://www.feedfire.com/
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Feedfire.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Portrayer Publishers of Cheshire, UK. Involved for the last 6 years publishing in both traditional and electronic media, their titles have focused on academic publications catering for highly niched educational markets. RSS scraping is heavily featured on their corporate website and it is borne from this, the idea that all users of any level should be able to create their own RSS feed, simply, quickly and easily with extensive features built-in to the feed.
Contact Details:
Mike Barlow, MCIJ
Portrayer Publishers [Members of the Chartered Institute of Journalists and BECTU
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