RollerWarehouse have created a ‘ticker’ for their customers (who fall mainly in the youth category) to be pasted into the myspace.com profiles—check out the ticker here—the news highlighted link directly back to the RollerWarehouse weblog.
They haven’t stopped there, as anyone who has it on their site will be able to get a 5% doscount on their purchases. This little development has already given the online skating store a significant increase in sales.
Fantastically simple and effective.
Reproduced from Phatgnat
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Great idea. In case you don’t know, myspace does not allow javascript and many other types of code to be used on their pages. By wrapping the RSS feed into a flash player these guys were able to get past the limitation.
Because of the huge number of bands using flash for video on the myspace pages, I doubt the company will block this in the near future.
Again, great idea.
April 3rd, 2006 at 7:29 pm
MySpace will shut thsi down so fast.
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Thanks for the comment Andrew. I was really amazed that no one else is doing this. At least no one I could find.
And to Jessy, well I’m just keeping my fingers crossed!
Rick D.
Roller Warehouse
April 4th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Hey guys just an update- the news ticker is still going very strong! We just passed 1000 myspace users that have loaded the news on their page!
Rick D.
Roller Warehouse
September 14th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Well, they finally shut it down. After 2 plus years. And they deleted our myspace account. We had over 9000 friends. Ouch.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:13 pm