RadarFarms Press

We are always trying our best to enrich your user experience at RadarFarms. Therefore, we would like to introduce several new features we just implemented at our site.

From now on, the site visitors will be able to filter the Radar items by type:

The visitors could filter the Radar items by the following filters:

• Web - Web site content
• News
• Blogs
• Video
• Forums - user generated content platforms, such as, forums, Discussion groups, answer boards and others
• Bids from eBay
• Articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications

See, for instance, what Blogs and Video filters bring for Nica Real Estate - our most popular Real Estate radar:

We also introduced a new version of Radar Wizard - our toll, which allows creating Radars for virtually any imaganable subject in thirty seconds for any visitor regadless of her/his technical skills.

We added three new sources:

• MySpace
• RSSMicro - best RSS Feed search engine
• Torrents - from one of the best Torrent Search Engine - Torrentz

In addition, if you would like to make your Radar to non-viewable for others, just check Non-Viewable Radar checkbox:

If you still find Radar Wizard a bit initimidating :-), just register and we will create a Radar for you!

Feed Discoverer, another innovative tool by RadarFarms, is a RSS feed meta-search engine. In order to retrieve most relevant feeds, it is using MSN/Live.com API. Because the feeds are created in different formats, the tool categorizes all the returned feeds under four different categories:

• Feedburner Feeds
• Feeds
• RSS Files
• XML Files

All you need to do is specify a keyword or key phrase, which represents your Radars’ subject, generate and preview the feeds, select those which you need, and then publish your Radar.

There are several advanced features – privacy, inclusion and exclusion filters.

The feeds can be also added to existing Radars created through Radar Wizard and/or Radar Admin tools.

The whole process will take no longer than several minutes.

The numbers are staggering. Most pay-per-click advertising is aimed at 1-2 word search queries. Yet, over 80% of web traffic comes from highly-specific, “long tail” (3 words or more) search queries. Meaning, your competition is paying fiercely for the attention of less than 20% of web users.

Our Radars, on the other hand, attract massive amounts of long tail traffic. Advertising on 77Radars gets you the attention of very valuable web users. Learn more…

77Radars are News Radars we give special love and attention to, because we think they’re particularly important topics. Choose a radar you like in the cloud and become its Sponsor.

Think you can do better? Click here to create and sponsor your own News Radar.

Welcome to our new RadarFarms site! We are committed to make your visitor, News Radar owner and sponsor experience informative, entertaining and rewarding.

The site also features our new advertising service – 77Radars – which allows online advertisers to tap into unprecedented power of Long Tail search (odd search queries with 3 and more keywords) which greatly overpowers in both volume and value traditional generic keywords covered by pricey Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click offering.

If you are interested, you could read more about the Long Tail Advertisng approach and visit our 77Radars page.

We noticed that our widgets are getting more popular and implemented by several portals and blogs.

The first implementation was by Palomino Innovative Systems. The following sites also feature oour portable content:

SecondSlice - the Virtual World Marketing Magazine run by our marketing partner One Up Marketing - implemented Second Life Marketing radar with Tag Cloud at its home page:

Healthcastle - a portal, which offers nutrition tips, book recommendations and a vitamins and minerals guide and also features a discussion forum with questions answered by dietitians online. It embedded our Healthcastle radar: 

Rucku - rugby’s first virtual clubhouse - features our Banned Commercials radar

Team Technologies - a world class engineering firm focused on micro and nano solutions - hosted our Nanotechnology radar

Rayan’s Blog also features our TMZ.com Videos  radar.

If you would also like to use our widgets, you can use our RadarWizard tool or contact us: mailto:support@radarfarms.com.

As we promised, we kept working on this tool and delivered new exciting features such as more advanced selection criteria, ability to add feeds to existing Radars, Firefox support, dynamically generated Widgets and new Feed Types - Forums, Images, Amazon and Bids.

For detailed description of Generate Widget functionality see our previous post.

The new version of Radar Wizard  makes Newsmastering much easier and you can test drive this tool. If you need any help, you can use our online Help (the link is located at the top right corner) or you can contact us at: support@radarfarms.com.

RadarFarms added Tag Clouds to its Widgets and successfully tested them at our another site ITDynamo.com. The Tag Clouds were implemented for JobExposer, Soft Skills for Techies, Resume Mastering and Interview Prep for Techies Radar Widgets.

The Radar Widgets, implemented in July 2007 through our Radar Wizard self-service, are for free, however, the Tag Cloud add-in is for a small one-time fee and will be produced upon you request. If you are interested in producing and hosting the widgets, please contact us at: mailto:info@radarfarms.com.

Tag Cloud is a weighted list of content tags/keywords for a specific radar. They bring a lot of value to the widgets by boosting Search Engine Ranking for a site hosting the widget,  adding search capabilities and giving a cool Web 2.0-like look to the host site. 

We just added four new feed sources to Radar Wizard:

• Amazon
• Bids (eBay)
• Images (Yahoo Images)
• Forums (Omgili)

This way you can generate News Radars, which also include the best books, best bargains, pictures and  forum’s buzz on a subject of your interest.

New version of Radar Wizard tool developed and hosted by RadarFarms.com allows generating Widgets.

Radar Widget is a snippet of code that can be embedded in any HTML or PHP page on your site or blog to display fifteen (15) most recent items from your radar, which is hosted on RadarFarms. 

Embedding the RadarFarms widgets into a web site or blog is very simple for any webmaster or blogger:

If you don’t want to embed a widget into you web site or blog or don’t have one but would like to monitor a subject of your intesrets right from your dektop, you can save the widget script as a HTML file using Notepad and run a desktop Widget:

It allows you keeping up with news without going to our site or using a RSS reader:

RadarFarms releases a first set of Blidgets!  The idea behind blidgets (a short for bl[og w]idgets) is to enable promotion of a blog on web sites, other blogs and social networking destinations like MySpace. A blidget is basically a wrapper around an RSS feed.  The blidgets are enabled by Widgetbox - an online marketplace that connects widget developers and widget consumers. The RadarFarms blidgets will provide their subscribers to the ability to embed and display the bits of our content (Radars) anywhere and everywhere. At this moment, our site features 13 blodgets: 

• Farms Voice is incorporating our news, blog postings and research articles. The blidget is at home and group pages (e.g., Web 2.0 Radars, Showcase Radars or Private Radars pages) – see screenshot below:

• Web 2.0 Business

• Web 2.0 Social Revolution

• AdSense Secrets, Tips and Hacks

• Japanese Swords

• Pink Floyd – Is There Anybody Out There?

• AC Milan

• Nanotechnology

• Interview Prep for Techies

• Salsa Multimedia

• TMZ.com Videos

• Banned Commercials

You can embed any of those blidgets into My Space, Facebook and other popular social networking, blogging or personalized sites or just plug into any 3^rd part site by clicking “Get Widget“:

We will keep adding Blidgets to most of our radars. If you want to create Radar and/or get your Blidget contact us at: support@radarfarms.com.

In the meantime, we have already a first subscription for our Banned Commercials blidget at: http://rucku.elgg.org/keny/profile/.