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Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:51:12 -0500
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There's a Popular New Code for Deals: RSS
By BOB TEDESCHI
Published: January 29, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/travel/29prac.html

FOR many people, e-mail newsletters are fast becoming the Internet  
equivalent of the Sunday paper: compendiums of useful information,  
often left unread in lieu of life's other tasks. E-mail alerts on  
travel deals, in particular, can be easy to sign up for and equally  
difficult to keep up with.

But those willing to spend a few minutes to create a personalized  
home page on Yahoo, MSN, Google or other sites now have a useful  
alternative. Recently, these sites began allowing consumers to  
populate their home pages with similar information they'd find in e- 
mail newsletters, with two added benefits: all the relevant  
information from multiple sites appears on one page, instead of  
multiple e-mails, and the information is often considerably fresher,  
with several updates a week - or even a day.

What's more, the most recent information is there whenever you're in  
the mood to check it, not when your e-mail tells you to.

Details at -> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/travel/29prac.html

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