About mySyndicaat

mySyndicaat is a news mastering tool that allows you to retrieve, filter, mix and monitor content from remote content sources available on the web. Collected content is cached by mySyndicaat and can be retrieved later on either by using mySyndicaat content viewer, or by subscribing to is using any RSS 2.0-compliant RSS aggregator.

Once you have registered to use the service, you start by creating a feedbot. FeedBots (i.e., feed-robots) are the means by which you specify the sources that you want to monitor. In most instances, they are RSS- or Atom-compliant feeds. Alternatively, they can be publicly available search engines that return their search results as RSS feeds.

You create a feedbot, by clicking on "Create FeedBot". After providing your own unique feedbot name, you can specify feedbot-wise filtering conditions. By means of filtering conditions, you apply simplified boolean conditions to content retrieved from the web. Only content that match filtering conditions is saved by the feedbot.

In many instances, you can simply create a feedbot to combine and (time-wise) splice multiple feeds together. Considering the number of RSS feeds available on the web, mySyndicaat is a convenient productivity tool in that it reduces the number of RSS sites to monitor and provides a unique interface for syndication content browsing.

Once your feedbot name and filters are specified, you proceed by selecting the content to import. This is done by clicking on Add New Subscription (just under the feedbot filtering entries).

Each subscription requires a unique name, a content type (out of a list) and either a feed URL, or a search string. In the case of feeds, you can also supply your own subscription-specific filtering conditions.

mySyndicaat is provided free-of-charge for web users for personal and non commercial usage. However, there are some limitations.

For the first 60 days of service, you are entitled to create and use up to 20 feedbots (channels). Each feedbot can combine online content from up to 20 subscriptions (feeds or content sources). To allow stress tests of opml files and reading lists, some of above restrictions may not apply for opml imports and reading lists (only during the initial 60 days of free service).

After the initial 60 days of free service, you are entitled to use 5 feedbots (channels) each combining up to 5 subscriptions (feeds). No reading lists will be supported for free users after the 60 day initial period.

After the initial 60 days of mySyndicaat service, your configurations will not be removed. Only the aggregation of feedbots and subscriptions exceeding above limitations will become inactive. Should you wish to subscribe to our premium service, online aggregation will be active again based on your configured channels.

mySyndicaat stores collected posts for two months. Older posts are automatically eliminiated every day. This procedure only applies to free accounts.

Once you are finished specifying all of your subscription entries, you just save your feedbot. mySyndicaat takes over by automatically retrieving the content from the sources that you specified based on the refresh frequency that you entered in your feedbot.

After a few seconds from your feedbot creation, you can view the retrieved content. To do that, you need to select "FeedBots" on your left hand side. A list of your available feedbots is returned to you. Select your feedbot and click on "View Content". A feedbot content view window opens over mySyndicaat home page. Content is displayed in pages of 10 items each.

You can also view subscription-specific content. To do that, expand your import and click on View Content within the subscription definition.

You can clean-up a feedbot by removing all of its content or by removing older content that you no longer wish to keep (see Subscription, or FeedBot More Actions..)

To conclude this short summary of mySyndicaat features, you can manage the entire lifecycle of a feedbot by creating it, editing it and eventually (if you wish so) by removing it.

Each feedbot is provided with its own personal and authenticated RSS 2.0 feed. You find the URL of your feedbot RSS feed either on the right hand side of your feedbot definitions, or in the RSS icon on the content view window that displays the content of your feedbot.

All of your feedbot RSS feeds require authentication (the same user id and password that you use to enter MySyndicaat).

If you wish your feed to be public for anybody to view, please let us know and we will be happy to do it for you.

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Toronto, Ontario

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CANADA

Telephone: 416-781-1440

E-mail: info@kipcast.com

Support: support@kipcast.com