Using the powerful engine of PHP Link Directory, NewsTopica brings a whole new concept, allowing you to create your own news or blog aggregation site.

Create Categories - you can create categories for news or blog topics. You may import multiple feeds into one category, and then sort them by date, pagerank, hits or alphabetically.

Import Feeds - Feeds are imported, and sorted by age. The more recent news appears first.

Front Page - For each category, you can decide if you want stories to appear on the first page (or not), and decide how many.

Setup Cron - You can setup a cron to import news stories as often as you like. You can also run a cron to delete older stories.

Just like in any typical community, internet community trends often define what is current and popular at the time. Shortly after the website boom of the 1990’s various website promotion related trends appeared. About as fast as they were developed, many were thrown out and forgot about. About the same time, a new type of technology was coming into play, known as RSS.

RSS actually stands for Really Simple Syndication. Surprisingly, RSS feeds have been around for over 10 years, but have never gained popularity until recently. The recent boom of internet blogging seemed to push RSS into the spotlight.

RSS allows a website owner to post news and information to their readers in the form of a title, short description, and a link to the full text. This...
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