Business Wire Expands RSS Industry Feeds to 18 Industries, adds Personalized RSS Feeds for Media.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Business Wire today increased the number of RSS feeds from five to 18 different industries, added RSS feeds for Multimedia and Hot Topic news, and added a personalized RSS feed capability for its Press Pass media registrants, it was announced by Laura Sturaitis, vice president of new media development. "The RSS feed innovation that we are most proud of is that PressPass registrants can now personalize their own custom Business Wire headline feed to mirror their own specific news interests and view then view those headlines via either timed email delivery or on their RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. reader," said Sturaitis. "They can also get Hot Topics, a feed of releases from Business Wire members on key subjects in the news, and news from upcoming tradeshows, via RSS." "Enabling RSS for PressPass registrants' personalized news interests creates an infinite number infinite number a number so large as to be uncountable. Represented by 8, frequently obtained by 'dividing' by zero. of possible news feeds in 13 different languages, allowing our users to get exactly the news they want when they want it" said Mark Wehrmeister, Vice President of Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . In November 2004, Business Wire was the first commercial newswire to provide RSS newsfeeds in five major industry-specific sectors. Industries covered by Business Wire include: automotive, communications, construction & property, consumer, education, energy, entertainment, government, health, manufacturing, natural resources, philanthropy, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , retail, sports, technology, transport and travel. Reporters and editors can be alerted to news releases with multimedia content and get free and unrestricted use by adding "Smart News Releases: News With Multimedia" in their RSS reader. They can also get custom news views of Business Wire news releases via email or RSS by signing up at http://www.BusinessWire.com. RSS is an acronym for Real Simple Syndication and allows news consumers to pinpoint content of personal interest from multiple online news sources, including major news organizations, weblogs, and news-oriented community web sites. RSS technology provides a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. platform for users to gather RSS-compatible content from divergent sources based on their own individual news profile. The news reader program refreshes the available information at regular intervals, delivering the current composite newsfeed A collection of discussions or headlines that are published for distribution to the general public. See newsgroup and syndication format. direct to the user's desktop. The need to search individual websites for relevant news is eliminated as RSS automates the process through its advanced filtering and forwarding technology. About Business Wire Business Wire was founded in 1961 by chairman/CEO Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most executive. The company's multi-channel delivery network, with access to some 60 international and national news agencies, financial information providers and Web-based news services throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , the Middle East and Africa, provides real-time, simultaneous access to key audiences -- the news media, trade publications, institutional and individual investors, business-to-business decision-makers and consumers. Business Wire electronically disseminates some 1,000 full-text news releases daily to the media, the Internet, online services and databases, and the global investment community in 150 countries in 45 languages. Business Wire has 24 U.S. offices, Frankfurt, London, Stockholm, Brussels, Sydney and Tokyo offices, and reciprocal offices throughout the world. |
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