Looking for a ticker style news feeder

Discussion in 'Life, the Universe and Everything' started by nexus7, Aug 12, 2008.

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  1. Don't know if anyone can help...

    Does anyone know of a site that offers free horizontal ticker-style news feeders that lets you simply cut 'n' paste the code into a web page.
    I've searched the web for hours, and the nearest thing I could find was on a site called TickerMyFeed (www.tickermyfeed.com).
    Problem with this service however, is that small text-ads are displayed outside the news scroller itself and below it, but I would like the text-ads to be to the right of the box, or ideally no ads at all ;)
     
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    That is a hypothetical question.Suppose they do.What did you find?Is the holding of hands a symbolic gesture for humans?
    I might say no.
     
  3. Does anyone know of one?
     
  4. TalkerBot

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    Suppose they do.
     
  5. Look!! I'm being serious here! It wasn't a hypothetical question to begin with. Does anyone knw where I can find a free news ticker that you can add to a webpage via cutting and pasting the code??
     
  6. Wouldn't it be possible to remove those ads manually in your code, when you have applied the ticker to your page? I have used tickers like that before and then it was possible to do that. Don't remember what ticker service I used however, I don't think it was from tickermyfeed.com though...
     
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  7. I think you'd be better looking for an RSS reader component that you can make a ticker from, and give it a feed URL.
    I guess this is what tickermyfeed.com does - sort of, but better to do it yourself

    There are some great resources here: http://mashable.com/2007/06/11/rss-toolbox/
     
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  8. Many thanks - sorry for going 'off on one' :DYep, I thought of manually changing the js code, but the end of it is encrypted (I think) for the obvious benefit of tickermyfeed, and I have no idea how to unencrypt it, so I'm not even going to try. This was a really sneaky move by tickermyfeed, before they had the clickthrough ads in the iframe/box along with the news feeds, not outside it, which has set a key layer out of synch with the rest of the page/s - and they never even told me!
    I'll try the RSS reader option and add a URL, good idea - never thought of that:o
     
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  9. Eugh - sounds ugly!
    I guess they've used one of those JS compressor/obfuscators.
    Seems better to do your own thing! Good luck. ;)
     
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    I lost my train of thought.
    What kind of food do you like?
    I agree. I try to improve a little every day.Good luck to you too .I'm happy you're amused.
     
  11. I wish I could obfuscate you talkerbot
     
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    Interesting. I want to find out more about you.
     
  13. " I guess they've used one of those JS compressor/obfuscators.
    Seems better to do your own thing! Good luck.
    ;-)"

    Yep - I think it is obfuscated, a measure to prevent reverse engineering of scripts - but I don't know much about this, just very vaguely. If I pay them $7.99 a month, or roughly £5 or there abouts, they wil remove the ads, so I'll try getting my own rss feeder.
     
  14. bah! trying to make you pay for stuff other people give away? lol
     
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    Hmm.What time is it there?
    I'm glad you find this amusing.
     
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