A feature was recently implemented in MediaTicker which, though subtle, is a very cool addition to the software. It’s an example of where we might take the product in future versions, and an example of how Roxio will integrate web services into it's products in the future.
The latest version of MediaTicker (2.1) allows you to subscribe to premium KodakGallery albums using RSS. Although Kodak only generates one RSS feed per premium subscriber, we’ve tweaked our RSS parsing code to pull out the relevant stuff and display it in MediaTicker.
Here’s how it works:
- You sign up for an account at www.kodakgallery.com
- Then you sign up for a “Premium” account - $24.95/yr. Only “premium” accounts have RSS feeds of your gallery. So getting a premium account is the only way to publish an RSS feed of your gallery.
- Then you create albums, upload photos and “publish” the albums to your “premium” home page. Your home page has a static RSS feed associated with it – the content is updated any time you create and publish a new album, but the URL doesn’t change.
- Copy and paste the RSS feed into MediaTicker's "Options" window, click Add Feed and then OK. Each album you publish shows up as a thumbnail.
- Click a thumbnail in the ticker to go right to an album and view all the pictures.
- Since MediaTicker checks for feed updates every 30 minutes, any time you add a new album it will show up in MediaTicker in 30 minutes or less (you can also hit “F5” to refresh the ticker manually).
Download the latest MediaTicker here.
Visit KodakGallery here.
Tags: kodak , mediaticker , photo , RSS