有些事情你大概永远都不会去用，但是还是有人罗列了这些功能。

1. 从多种来源抓取新闻。An RSS feed reader is an aggregator of numerous feeds from news sources
   (and nearly every major paper and TV news network has RSS feeds today).
   But now there are even feeds that aggregate other feeds. The new RSSmix.com lets you combine all the news source RSS feeds into one single feed so you get news as it happens.
2. 阅读电子邮件（通过 rss 阅读 gmail 邮件，这个点子不错）。Easily done with mailbucket.org. And each Gmail account has an RSS feed too. Or if you’re a user of Mailinator.com, then you’ll be glad there’s a similar service called dodgeit.com but with RSS feeds.
3. 追踪 Fedex 快递公司的包裹。Ben Hammersley says Just add your tracking number to the end of a special RSS feed address.
4. eBay 成交通告。 RSSauction.com lets you specify the type of product, its description and even the price range in their customised Ebay feeds.
5. 最新股票报价。There have been various paid services and limited unpaid ticker services around. Tim Bray made a customisable feed. Yahoo is introducing its own RSS ticker service.
6. 天气预报。Weather Underground has the weather of every city and town in the world. And each of them now has an RSS feed. Alternatively, there is RSSweather.com.
7. 媒体追踪。Services like technorati.com and pubsub.com
   offer something that’s popularly called persistent search delivery. You
   type in a search term such as your name and or your company name or
   product name and they will return the newest indexed references to you
   in a customised RSS feed. Both services scan blogs. If you want
   persistent search delivery from a broader range of sites, you have Googlealert.com.
8. 音乐，电视台节目预告。Now you have podcasts and directories like podcastalley.com that also serve the latest podcasts in several RSS feeds. And increasingly, like Comedy Central’s Daily Show,
   broadcasters are finding it effective to promote and deliver their
   shows in RSS. Videobloggers now have a community website called Mcfeedia.com that adds tags to video blog RSS feeds.
9. 别人的日程安排。RSScalendar.com lets someone
   input new events and meetings on their schedule for free. And if you
   pick up the RSS feed for that schedule, you’re always up-to-date on
   what’s going on in that person’s day.
10. 电影院预告。Quietly getting popular, a movement led by small local cinemas like City Cinema,
    rather than big cinema networks. But the bigger cinemas are delivering
    updates via email and these can be converted into feeds by
    mailbucket.org.
11. 阅读最喜欢的漫画。Many daily and weekly comic authors publish online and have an RSS feed. Dilbert of course has one. Best way to locate the feed is to type in the name of the comic into either Feedster.com or Bloglines.com
    (both are great RSS feed directories). And even if your favourite comic
    doesn’t have a feed on its website, a good comic will have someone
    somewhere creating an unofficial scraped feed. Comicalert.com has a large updated list of both official and unofficial RSS feed list of hundreds of comics.
12. 人家在浏览什么网站。I don’t mean spyware. A lot of people use online bookmarks which they make public. Places like del.icio.us, feedmarker.com, furl.net and the new wists.com are online bookmark services that create RSS feeds for each user.
13. 自动备份博客。If your RSS feed is being picked up by an online feed reader service like Bloglines.com,
    they will store all your entries on their server. Unfortunately, they
    don’t have an export feature. But at least all your entries (if you
    have full entries in your RSS feed) are safe and dated.
14. 软件更新通知。Popular software downloads sites like Download.com and versiontracker.com
    let you keep up with all new releases via RSS. So you can also be
    alerted when your favourite softwares have a new version or when there
    are better releases.
15. 得到最新的 BT 更新。As they say, if its worth something, it’s worth more illegal. Bittorrent directory Torrentspy.com
    was the first to have an RSS feed that lets its users know what has
    just been uploaded. And the online p*rn industry, being always on the
    cutting edge of online business, was probably the first to take to blog
    CMSes and use them to generate traffic through RSS feeds. I’ll refrain
    from linking to one here, but it just takes a Google search to find
    several.

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