Let Us Design a Custom - Continually Updating - News Webpage for Your Website! | Saturday, Jul 4, 2009
FAQ for Everyone
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Q. How do the News-Jumper sites work?
A. We import the stories of the top news websites and blogs for any given topic and display the headlines of the five most recent stories. When you place the cursor over a headline, we display part of the story so that you can decide if you’d like to read it. To read the story, click on its title and you are taken or "jumped" directly to the website with story of interest. To go to the home page of the site, click on its domain name.
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Q. How often do you update the feeds?
A. Approximately every forty minutes. RSS feeds are, in almost all instances, free services and they take some time for the entire feed to load. When we refresh our cache we are only retrieving the newest stories. But "hitting" servers for RSS feeds too frequently can be a performance burden on the sites providing the RSS feeds. So we try an strike a happy medium for updates and forty minutes seems to be a good timeframe.
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Q. How do you decide which sites and blogs are in a topic?
A. We rely on several sources: results of Google searches, review of the sites’ and blogs’ content, and researchers
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Q. How do you decide on the order?
A. We decide based on the sources available to us.
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Some sites and blogs are relatively unknown but provide such high-quality information that we feel it’s important share their information.
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We also follow the Rule: If it's interesting or funny to us - other people will probably enjoy it as well.
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Q. Some of my favorite sites are not included, how do I get you to add them?
A. Please send us an email, and we’ll consider them. Please note: if your favorite sites don’t provide an RSS feed, we cannot import their stories. And please, tell us what topic you hope to see them in.
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Q. Why does the order of feeds sometimes change?
A. If our server cannot get a site’s stories in a reasonable time, we skip it, and go on to the next one.
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Q. Couldn’t I build my own custom aggregation using a feed reader, customizable home pages, Net-News-Now, etc?
A. Yes, you could— but we can put a page together for you in a very short period of time - a couple of days and then link it to your website. Much easier. And a lot less expensive.
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Q. How do I suggest an additional topic?
A. Please send us an email.
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Q. How can I advertise on an News-Jumper site or sponsor the whole thing?
A. Please send us an email.