Student Jason has written several articles introducing Snap Shots. Recently, he sent me an email saying that Snap Shots has added two new features: RSS Shots and Profile Shots. These functions respectively preview the RSS output of a third-party webpage and someone's profile on MySpace.
Currently, Snap Shots already provides various Shots including PreviewShot?, WikiShot?, MovieShot?, StockShot?, VideoShot?, PhotoShot?, ProductShot?, AudioShot?, and CompanyNewsShots. I have introduced their detailed functions before; you can refer to this article for more information.
RSS Shots offers a feature to preview the RSS output of a website. When the link points to the homepage of a webpage with RSS output, such as the index, the RSS Shots preview will show the RSS previews of 2 to 4 of the most popular articles from the entire site, like here (if unable to preview, see the image below):
If the link points to a specific article, then RSS Shots will display the title and content of the article in RSS format.
This leads to a problem. Since all the Shots codes are in the same format, the only difference lies in the URL they point to, and there is no indication in the code what kind of Shots it is. Therefore, situations may arise where we hope to preview the webpage image, but it might turn into an RSS preview instead, or when we want to do an RSS preview, it might become a webpage preview. This issue not only appears in RSS Shots but also in some other Shots, making it a problem that needs to be resolved. So, I estimate that future codes will definitely include codes to distinguish between different Shots.
Profile Shots provide a function to view someone's profile on MySpace from a third-party perspective. Although it currently only supports MySpace, I believe it will gradually become compatible with other community websites in the future.
The method to add the codes for the above two new features is the same as before.
Additionally, Snap has newly added a traditional search function. Previously, search results were split into left and right windows, with text results on the left and image previews on the right. Traditional search only shows text results, similar to Google. Users can freely switch between the two modes.
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