FeedShow

Two mistakes brings a lot of discussion about the new service Feedpass.com.

Why they are wrong:
- They make commercial use of content without any prior authorization of the original publisher.
- They have a wrong design in which anybody can claim a content and get the benefit (money) of it.

May be they should have done something like I do with FeedShow in the Revenue Sharing Program:
- No ads if the original publisher does not explicitly agree,
- Use the RemoteAds RSS extension to get the Adsense codes of the publisher.

FeedPass.com will surely be modified to address these issues…

Discussed here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/05/21/feedpass-does-absolutely-nothing/
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/05/19/feedpass-makes-rss-subscription-and-monetizing-other-peoples-co/

FeedShow already provides a way to subscribe to the revenue sharing program via the RemoteAds RSS extension module.
This method is may be to complex for some users that don’t have direct access to their RSS file structure.

This is why an another method has been implemented.
This 3 steps method is really fast and easy.

First you need a Google Adsense account. If you don’t have one, you can subscribe here :

(Note that you don’t have to include ads on your blog if you don’t want to. You can use this account only with FeedShow…)

Then, you only need to publish a post that includes the following lines:

--[Subscribe FEEDSHOW Revenue sharing program]
provider=[Google]
uid=[pub-8635701842554873]
option=[5338430085]
--[Subscribe FEEDSHOW Revenue sharing program]

Just replace the ‘uid’ with your ‘google_ad_client’. Option is ‘optional’ (!) and may be set to a ‘google_ad_channel’ (do not change provider=[Google]).

The last step is to tell FeedShow to take your post into account. You will do it on this page.

You are now ready to get your share (50%) of the revenues made by your content. You can check at this feed to see how ads look like within FeedShow RSS reader.

You can now ping FeedShow when a new post is available in your blog.

Most blogging tools include an option to ping external services such as Feedshow.
Simply add the FeedShow ping url in your tool:

http://rpc.feedshow.com/ping

This will make your blog modifications show up more quickly in Feedshow.

Note that only XML-RPC interface is available.
Please refer to specifications for more details.
FeedShow supports both “weblogUpdates.ping” and “weblogUpdates.extendedPing” methods.

Update 07/05:
The list of the latest ping received is available at this address:
http://rpc.feedshow.com/show_latest_pings