You may be asking yourself... how do I use RSS feeds with my Pogoplug?

This is a very neat little tool that can make it quite easy for you to share photos and other things quickly and easily.

First of all, when you hover over a folder in the Pogoplug web app, you should notice a small RSS icon (the orange colored icon) that you can click.  If you are already in a folder, clicking the "Subscribe" button in the action bar at the bottom of the screen will do the same thing.  A dialog will open with a "Subscribe to the contents of the folder:"  link, and a "show url" link.  Clicking the first link will open your browsers RSS reader, and the second will simply show you the RSS link for your folder.

Now that you know how to use it, you may be asking what it is.

RSS is a really easy way to "subscribe" to a list of content that changes frequently.  Think about a news site that has headline news, or a store that updates its prices. 

In our world, we care about the content that you want to share and let people know when it's been updated (i.e. you added a new photo, dropped in a new video, ....) 

A really good example of how to use this is with a digital picture frame.  Imagine giving Mom a picture frame, and having it automatically display photos from one of the folders on your hard drive, thousands of miles away. 

Many of the digital photo frames use a site called FrameChannel to aggregate the content that is displayed on the photo frame.  If you go to FrameChannel (even if you don't have a digital photo frame), you can set up a user account for free and play around with RSS feeds from your Pogoplug.  Check out the Pogoplug icon in the "Photosharing" area (we are between Picassa and Smugmug).

 If you are worried about security... don't be. The url for the feed is not generated until you actually request a rss feed for the folder. 

It uses a 22 character random url with about 100 possible choices for each character, so 100 to the 22nd power....  It's a big number :) 

In addition, the public url is not actually going direct to the Pogoplug, but is directed against the Pogoplug service - which means we can shut off urls at any time, further increasing security. 

Also just like they have for sharing folders, where there is a simple checkbox for sharing/unsharing a folder, we'll be doing the same for RSS feed urls.