How To Track 50 Soul Music Websites All On One Page…

First, the link: NetInfoWeb’s SoulSites Aggregator Page

One of the things I have always wanted to do since I started this new direction for the site is to create a place where people could go to discover soul music sites and easily find out what they are talking about. Well, today that goal has partially come true!

Phase 1 of the “SoulSites Aggregator” is now ready for you.

A little background as to how this is being done (for now)…

A couple months ago I found this great service called SpotBack News. Basically, it is a personalized news website that let’s you rate news stories and customize the site to present you stories from your topics of interest. One of the options SpotBack provides, NewsSnacks, let’s you build a custom news page from sources (i.e. RSS feeds) that you supply and presents it to you in a format similar to sites like Original Signal, POPURLS, Digg View, etc. Perfect! All that was left to do now was:

1. Export an OPML file from my web-based aggregator
2. Select the initial sites to display
3. Create a subdomain (soulsites.netinfoweb.com) on my web server
4. Add a 301 redirect to the default page of the new subdomain to display the page

Now, as I have mentioned, this is only the first step towards the eventual goal. Ideally, I would want to have this service running 100% on my own server without the need to rely on an outside site or service which could disappear at any given time. So… the development continues, but this first step is the realization of a dream I’ve had for a while now. It feels pretty damn good.

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