- New release DVDs feeds… for New Zealand release dates
- New release movies feeds… for New Zealand release dates
- New release New Zealand CDs (Amazon wouldn’t stock most of them, and they’d be imports and have later release dates)
- New release magazines (especially New Zealand ones I read) with feature article highlights
- New clothing items at my favourite stores (saves me going to the mall to see what’s new)
- Trademe feeds for search terms (our version of ebay)
- Latest news feed for the NZ Herald (their RSS service is overly complicated, doesn’t include breaking news and has only 40 words in the excerpt)
While much focus went into providing multi-language sites, many services are still very much US or North American-specific. I’d love to be able to find New Zealand RSS feeds but unfortunately we’re still a little slow off the mark.
When Outlook 12 comes out with a built-in RSS-reader, RSS will hit mainstream internet users – even if they don’t realise they’re using it. Perhaps then, companies will realise that RSS feeds are like the next generation newsletter.
your thoughts
Hagrin
Great topic – never thought about this until you brought it up.
Blogger comment feeds are my #1 wanting. Comment feeds are extremely important when being a webmaster and trying to control comment spam and content on your web page.
I also wish you could go to a web page and “design” your own RSS feeds that track changes to certain areas of a page. Therefore, you could create a content tracker for pages – especially is authentication could be securely passed in RSS so that “behind login” pages could also be monitored. I know that there are tools out there that do this, but I would like to contain everything in my RSS reader so I don’t need to keep yet another app open and running.
Great insight though – definitely spurred some thoughts.
Simon Dickson
Couldn’t help noticing the overwhelming NZ-related nature of almost everything on your wishlist? I’m a UK resident, and it recently struck me that almost all the RSS feeds I follow are US-based. And ‘buzz’ sites like Technorati or del.icio.us will always be US-dominated. There’s definitely a market out there for localised versions of these sites.
TJ
I totally agree with that DVD feed. If you keep current with torrents, you’d basically find out whats new in movies that way. They have feeds for them as well.
I found you through getanewbrowser.com
Rachel C
You’re right Simon – there’s still a need for local content, local feeds, and local versions of services — or at least encouraging people to tag content based on country (usually that’s one of the last things I would think about when tagging delicious content).
Stylewalker
How do you imagine this?
“There’s new stock!”
“Ok, I’ll upgrade the RSS feed!”
“NO, it’s my turn! You go to the shelfs!”
Rachel
Hehe.
Matthew Buchanan
Might be able to help on a couple of these: the Marbecks redesign features a bunch of RSS feeds for NZ releases of CDs and DVDs. And Village SkyCity cinemas have recently added feeds for current and upcoming releases.
Rachel
Thanks so much Matthew! I haven’t been to either of their sites since they redesigned and have added their RSS feeds now
Elsa
Try this for movies:
http://www.nzcinema.co.nz/rss/