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Welcome to Premier Cru
's RSS Feed Center
Premier Cru is pleased to offer its inventory listings through an RSS feed.
If you
're familiar with RSS, go ahead and drag the XML links below to your
aggregator. If the previous sentence was completely meaningless to you, read on...
RSS stands for
"Really Simple Syndication"
. It is a standard means for computers to
update each other as information changes. Let
's say that you like to read the financial headlines
on Yahoo! News. You might go there once a day and read the news. The great thing about the web, though,
is that many news
articles are added all day long. To keep up with them, you would need to revisit Yahoo! News many times
throughout the day and see what
's changed. Lots of times, you'd go and nothing would be new; other times
there would be something new and interesting.
With RSS, Yahoo! provides a
"feed"
of anything that changes on the site. If you have the right program on
your computer (called an
"Aggregator"
), your computer will check the feed periodically and alert you when
something has changed.
Now, let
's imagine that in addition to Yahoo! News, you also follow Reuters, the BBC and some special
weblogs. Virtually all news sources provide RSS feeds, so you can follow developments on many websites,
as they change, very efficiently, in a single program. Some refer to RSS as
"Tivo for the web"
.
RSS is not only for news, though.
Craigslist
,
a listing service for classified ads, provides RSS feeds so you can subscribe to, say, job postings or
rentals in a particular neighborhood. Amazon provides RSS feeds of some of its product categories.
And, now, Premier Cru provides RSS feeds of its new inventory.
For more information (and a better explanation of RSS), check out
this page
.
To use RSS, you
'll need an aggregator. The simplest to use is a web-based aggregator such as
bloglines
. You can also include RSS feeds in your
"My Yahoo!"
account. If you
're more advanced, you
can try a PC-based aggregator such as
sharpreader
for windows or
Net NewsWire Light
for the Mac (scroll down the page from the full version to
the
"light"
version, which is free).
IMPORTANT NOTE
- Premier Cru is a wine store, and our staff is composed of wine experts.We
're not computer tech
support people. While we
're very happy to be the first wine retailer to offer RSS feeds to our customers, we're not able to
provide any help in setting up an aggregator and/or using RSS. If you have any questions about RSS, answers can be found on the web
or from your local teenage computer whiz. If, on the other hand, you need a recommendation for a great burgundy at an equally great price,
by all means call us!
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Available RSS Feeds
Once your aggregator is working, follow its instructions to subscribe to one or more of the feeds below.
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All New Wines
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New Australian Only
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New Bordeaux Only
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New Cabernet Sauvignon Only
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New Champagne Only
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New German Only
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New Italian Only
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New Red Burgundy Only
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New White Burgundy Only
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New Rhone Only
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New Port Only
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New Spanish Only
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New Robert Parker 100 Point Wines Only
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