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Feed Direct now provides the free newsfeeds previously available from Moreover.com. The newsfeeds are basically the same (although the customization has been streamlined a bit). The main difference is that the feeds now include 1 text ad at the top, related to the subject. Feed Direct obtains the ads from Google. You don't get a cut of the ad revenue, but you get a good free newsfeed. Unfortunately the feeds have more repeated headlines (the same AP or Reuters story from different "sources") than one would like. News 4 Sites currently has 119 javascript newsfeeds to choose from. The appearance is user-configurable, and the feeds are also available in other formats (RSS, PHP, ASP...). They look good. Topix, which claims to be the Internet's largest news site, has 300,000 micro-targeted news pages you can have headline feeds from. Unfortunately, the appearance-configurable javascript feed boxes for your website only include 3 headlines. Topix also offers a news search box. The New York Times now offers their own free feed of top news headlines. This feed is operated for the Times by Moreover.com (a former provider of multi-source free news feeds) and includes all of their configuration options, allowing a very good looking custom newsfeed. There are 18 categories to choose from. Free News Feed offers a single, easy to use, free world newsfeed. It looks pretty good, is partially customizable, and no registration is required. Reuters offers, to individuals and non-profit corporations, for use on non-commercial websites only, free RSS newsfeeds. As of this writing, News Clicker is up for sale, but their feeds continue to be available. News Clicker offers free feeds that can be configured to match your website's look. They also offer very nice looking configurable Java applet news tickers, which is their strong suit. They require registration and a password. EuroTV offers java applets that list the prime time TV shows nightly for France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Germany, and Switzerland. The lists are static (they don't scroll). The Financials provides over almost 50 free javascript feeds, giving daily market closing prices and charts in general and specific categories, and you can choose any of 5 sizes for each. If you click on a particular listing, the accompanying chart changes to that item. The links DO open in new windows. These financial feeds are not customizable, but they look good. The Financials offers customization and cobranding options for a fee. Barchart provides a free stock quotes java applet that looks like a newsfeed (non-moving), with customizable stocks, size, colors, and fonts. You can take the code right off of their page, but they ask that you register (with your email address only) in case there are changes in their program. Barchart also has a cobranding program that offers many pages of free financial content for your website, you must email them to get information about this program (response is swift). In addition, Barchart.com offers 3 free financial tickers: a stock ticker, a stock index ticker, and a commodities ticker, that you can use together or separately. See the Free News Tickers page for more about these. Mag Portal offers very nice looking and fully configurable feeds of online magazine article headlines and summaries. Once you register, you can get as many feeds as you like by simply changing the code number in the feed. News Index indexes headlines from 300 daily newspapers. They offer a Java applet ticker that displays headlines from a custom keyword news search that works fairly well, but not quite so well as one might hope. News Trawler is a news search engine that searches numerous daily newspapers. You can place the engine on your website, but you must select no more than 15 of the newspapers to search from. |
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