 Best Flights RSS News Feeds
Best Flights now offers RSS Emails and News Feeds for travel offers, as well as RSS information and advice.
RSS Emails | RSS News Feeds | RSS Information
It's cool, it's hip and it certainly is a hop step and jump away from the old way of finding out the news. Just when you thought you had a handle on using the Internet and all the weird and whacky terminology that it has inspired, here is the Best Flights simple version of an explanation on RSS Syndication; we believe we are the first Australian Travel company to offer travel specials via .rss feeds to news reader programs.
What does RSS do?
Faster than lightning, and there on demand, RSS provides the means of delivering the Best Flights travel news and fare alerts as they are released, straight to your own news reader program (also known as a news aggregator).
It costs you nothing, is spam free, virus free and protects your online privacy. Every time you open your New Reader you can access all the latest available specials in the system.
What do I get with RSS?
Each time we update our news feeds with a newsletter or fare alert you will be notified in your news aggregator with a series of short headlines that contain the summary of the available specials and the option to find out more if it interests you. Simply click on the link and you are directed to the webpage with the full details of the offer.
Why would I use RSS?
RSS brings it all together - under the one roof so to speak. Using your favourite News Reader you can get all the latest gossip, news, blogs and information from around the world on the one program. You're in control - and choose what you want to receive.
The time saver... no need to wade through all the spam emails to reach those travel updates. If you've ever experienced problems due to email viruses, lost mail, or spam filters that have black listed your emails then this is a solution will get you the goods when you want to access it.
We look at this as being yet another tool in our toolkit for the delivery of our great specials to our customers. So if you've already got a news reader, or would like to try it out... give it a go, it's fun and simple to do.
What does RSS Mean?
RSS is short for Rich Site Summary - Really Simple Syndication or RDF Site Summary, an XML format for syndicating Web content. Basically it is a format for marking up content that is read in suitable programs that can then react to the information received.
Popular in the weblogging community a news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favourite weblogs/news feeds by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them... weblogs? blogging? What's that??? Weblog is, literally, a "log" of the web - a diary-style site, in which the author (a "blogger") links to other web pages he or she finds interesting using entries posted in reverse chronological order. Some of these sites have become popular for daily review ... a look into the life of a particular publisher and their thoughts.
Links to RSS News Readers
If you haven't already got a favourite News Reader installed on your computer you can find plenty of free ones to use:
- Headline Viewer - A Windows application that lets you see news headlines from a configurable list of Headline Providers
- SharpReader - Windows-based desktop aggregator; many features.
- Syndic8 - A community effort to gather, validate and search feeds with lots of other information.
- NetNewsWire - A newer, standalone desktop aggregator MacOS X.
- Radio Userland - Hybrid desktop/Web aggregator and weblogging tool. Windows and Macintosh (7.5.5+ and OSX).
- News is Free - An online news reader, RSS Directory and news search engine.
- Apache JetSpeed - An Enterprise-class Java Portal that supports RSS.
- AmphetaDesk 0.93.1 - A windows, Linux and Mac OS 7-9 and later Freeware news aggregator.
- NewsMonster 1.2.2 - A really cool Freeware news aggregator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
- BottomFeeder - Freeware news aggregator for Windows, Mac, Linux.
- HotSheet - Is a JAVA 2 solution for Windows, Mac OS, Solaris, Linux and other platforms running the Java VM
- MyYahoo! - Web-based aggregator.
- Bloglines - Web-based aggregator.
- Firefox - Browser with integrated RSS features.
- NewsGator - Web-based aggregator and Microsoft Outlook integrated aggregator.
- FeedDemon - Desktop aggregator.
- Pluck - IE integrated RSS aggregator.
- SharpReader - Desktop aggregator.
- YouSubscribe - An Outlook integrated aggregator.
Valid RSS Formats
 There are at least seven different versions of RSS currently available, however many interrelate and most news readers are able to view the content appropriately.
Advanced RSS Users
For advanced RSS users please choose your aggregator from below:
http://www.bestflights.com.au/rss/bfnews.rss
http://www.bestflights.com.au/rss/lccnews.rss
http://www.bestflights.com.au/rss/bcnews.rss
http://www.bestflights.com.au/rss/banews.rss
http://www.bestflights.com.au/rss/bctnews.rss
http://www.bestflights.com.au/rss/fdnews.rss
You can right click the RSS graphic above and choose the "copy shortcut" option from the menu which you then paste into your news aggregator program, or simply type the address out and don't forget to label to your news feed as being Best Flights, Best Cruises, Best Adventures, Best Coach Tours or Best Flights Domestic as it applies.
Help Desk
Having problems? Send an email to webmaster@bestflights.com.au and our IT Help Desk staff will try to assist with your query. We appreciate that new technology can be daunting at times and we like to help!
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