Tag Archives: RSS

Happy birthday, blog!

It’s not every day you turn 3-years-old. In fact, it’s only one day ever, and that day is today for no.stupid.answers.

There have been a lot of posts I’m particularly proud of. Coming up with the Contributor Corner was a great thing, and ever since we’ve worked to introduce you to one contributor a week, fresh from the Answers.com community (thanks, Crystal!). The Chimpmanzee column is one of my personal favorites (it’s all you, Nirel!). And once we started highlighting poetry from the community, well, things got a little more inspired around here (kudos, Matthew!).

There are a lot of ways to get no.stupid.answers. You can continue to come directly to the blog, of course. You can also ‘Like’ the Answers.com page on Facebook, so the posts will show up conveniently in your news feed. There is the RSS to subscribe to, or even easier, the no.stupid.answers email.

A big thanks to all our blog writers, as well as the Answers.com engineers, staff and contributors who are constantly giving us what to write about!

Take your answers further with WiseStamp.

Here’s a new way to get more mileage out of your contributions on Answers.com: Show off your latest answers in your email signature with WiseStamp.

WiseStamp is about making your email signatures into dynamic representations of you and your work. Every time you email friends, family or colleagues, you can showcase your latest answer, most recent contribution, favorite category – any kind of dynamic information that is available through RSS! In addition, you can add your social profiles, links and images to further customize your email.

As a category expert, you spend valuable time answering questions; broadcast your Answers.com contributions and profile every time you email a client, colleague or potential customer. The signatures can be as professional or as fun as you prefer:

WiseStamp is an add-on for Firefox, Chrome, and Flock browsers as well as Thunderbird and the following webmail clients: Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, Hotmail, and Google Apps.  WiseStamp makes it simple to add its feature to your email tools so you can get started designing multiple signatures for the different kinds of emails you send.

Once you have the add-on installed, you are given all kinds of options for what you want to share in your signature. For the Answers.com-specific content, all it takes is an RSS feed (and there are lots more to choose from). You can also use an Answers.com badge or show off your profile with a clickable Answers.com icon.

Learn more about how to set it up with the step-by-step directions.

“We are very pleased to partner with Answers.com and provide the Answers.com community with WiseStamp’s effective solution,” says Josh Avnery, WiseStamp’s CEO. “Answers.com users are true knowledge lovers and WiseStamp gives them a new exciting and efficient way to share their passion. Answers.com users can now bring their interests, questions and answers into their daily email interactions in a simple and functional way.”

Got any questions about using WiseStamp? Check out the FAQ.

Get your answer fix in real time.

Did you know you can subscribe to a real-time feed of newly-composed answers? Every new answer written on WikiAnswers will be sent automatically straight to your RSS reader, for your reading (or editing) pleasure.

Here’s how to subscribe to the feed:

1. Go to the New Answers page and click the RSS icon at the top-right:

2. Then, select which RSS reader you wish to view the feed in:

3. Finally, click “Subscribe now” and you’re all set.

Or, simply click here to go straight to the subscription page without viewing recent answers first.

Now you truly have all the answers.

New widget! Get hungry! Food Word of the Day.

Here’s an equation I’d like you to ponder:

Words + food + new day = get hungry every morning with a new food word every day

Not good at math? That’s ok, I’ll spell it out instead:

L-e-a-r-n a n-e-w f-o-o-d w-o-r-d e-v-e-r-y d-a-y.

It can all be yours with our brand new widget, Food Word of the Day, accessible from Facebook, our RSS listing and the Widget Gallery. Feed your Facebook profile, personal homepage or RSS reader with gourmet words and then show off when you cook dinner (or order in).

Get ready to get hungry!

Food Word of the Day logo

Dapper makes the widgets go ’round.

On the Answers.com Widget Gallery, which you have undoubtedly visited and used at least 742512346062 times by now, you may have noticed that we used RSS to build the various widgets.Dapper

And that’s where Dapper, “The Data Mapper,” came in and swept us off our feet. Dapper “aims to make it easy and possible for anyone to extract and reuse content from any website.”

Essentially, you can take content from anywhere on the web and create your own RSS feeds, flash widgets, Facebook applications, and more, using Dapper’s step-by-step process.

We worked closely with the Dapper folks as we developed our own widgets, and by ‘worked closely,’ I mean bugged them with questions and showered them with compliments.

So, thanks Dapper guys, for “feeding us” our menu of Facebook apps and Blogger, Vox and HTML widgets!

Buddhism Facebook app from WikiAnswers

Hey, it’s WikiAnswers on Facebook!

P.S.: Get a Dapper-inspired Facebook app of no.stupid.answers and read us from your profile.

Presenting: the Answers.com Widget Gallery

Widget Gallery

Ahem! Announcement! Attention, please!

Now you can proudly display your favorite questions and answers by topic on your blog, website, desktop, Facebook, personal homepage and more.

Generate your own Answers.com and WikiAnswers widgets to embed in your favorite platforms with the brand new Widget Gallery.

Personalize your widgets to display:

Word of the Day | Wine Word of the Day | Today in History | Technology Q&A | Environment Q&A | Health Q&A | Law Q&A | Sports Q&A | Travel Q&A… and more.

Are you a tech blogger? Display updated technology Q&A on your blog’s sidebar. Sports fans can get the latest sports questions delivered straight to their personal homepage. The nutrition-conscious can feed their Facebook with healthy-diet Q&A.

Widgets can be customized to appear on:

Blogger | WordPress | Facebook | iGoogle | Netvibes | Yahoo | Apple Dashboard | Vista | RSS | Windows Live… and more.

See the full Widget Gallery.