Really Simple Tracking - Platial offers geoRSS Feeds

This is a really simple way to keep track of the multiple maps you care about, the people you think are posting interesting stuff, as well as a way to see when someone else adds a Place to one of your open maps, without having to visit all the various pages.

To use the new feeds, look for the RSS symbol on any Platial member's "Places" page, ie: platial.com/hive/places or on any "map" page, ie: platial.com/map/2878#Go_Skateboarding. Depending on the type of feed reader you use, you can either drag the icon into your reader, or right click the icon to copy the "link location" and paste that in (for info on choosing a reader, see below).

From that moment on, the reader will simply keep track of anything new from that user or that map. Most feed readers let you group multiple feeds into "folders", so you can group all your own open maps into one folder, and all your Platial buddies in another.

To find out more about RSS in general, or to find an RSS feed reader to use, check out some of these links:

Wikipedia article on RSS
and on news aggregators.

Here is a very large list of aggregators you can use. It includes both online and desktop version.

The fastest one to setup and that works well with our feeds seems to be the new google reader, but bloxor also seems very robust.

Ok, have fun!!