Here’s one of my favorite applications for RSS feeds… Online stores that use them to present new products in their online catalogs. For huge stores this isn’t very practical, but for specialty stores, it can be a lot of fun, especially if the store also has wishlist capability, like Think Geek does.
Archie McPhee: http://www.mcphee.com/mcpheeproductfeed.xml
Think Geek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/thinkgeek.rss
Threadless T-Shirts: http://threadless.com/rss/weekly
(Website: http://threadless.com)
Mule Design: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheFeedStore
Oddica: http://www.oddica.com/catalog/rssfeed.xml
There are a couple of product review blogs that basically do the same type of thing, that I also keep in my shopping RSS reading list, like these:
Mighty Goods: http://www.mightygoods.com/atom.xml
Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/index.xml
Mad Professor: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MadProfessor
And then there are the online shops I WISH had a feed, but they don’t:
Knock Knock: http://www.knockknock.biz/
16 Sparrows: http://www.16sparrows.com/
Hats In the Belfry: http://www.hatsinthebelfry.com/
And speaking of sites in general that really need to have RSS feeds —
IndianapolisMusic.net Events Calendar: http://www.indianapolismusic.net/events_day.php
