How to effectively use the Marketplace blog
If you've browsed MajorNelson.com via the site (instead of the RSS feeds) in the past couple of months you may have noticed the "Marketplace" link up in the top navigation. This links off to our Marketplace blog, which pulls data on all of the content that goes up on Xbox Live directly from feeds on Xbox.com and tags them based on all sorts of meta data we can associate it with it based on the types of requests we're making.
All of this means that you can easily use it to drill far down into the pile of content based on "Tags" we assign to it, and from there you can do whatever you like with that data like say tossing it into an RSS feed; so here are the easy to follow steps to getting all of the content you want syndicated how you want:
- Hit http://marketplace.majornelson.com
- You'll see on the top of the page the "Tag Cloud", which shows the 100 most frequently used Tags
- Start first with the region from which you want to pull content, so if you're trying to get content from the United States then click "United States", after that you can ignore any other region tags that may be in the tag cloud unless you want content only present in two or more specific regions
- Now you want to select the type of content you want to pull down, of which there are currently:
- Game Add-Ons
- Game Demos
- Full Games
- Gamer Pictures and Themes
- Videos
- Movies
- Music Videos
- TV Shows
- Xbox 360 Games
- Xbox Live Arcade Games
- Xbox Community Games
- Xbox Originals
- Based on the type of content you select there may be additional tags you can filter by, so say you chose "TV Shows" you will see specific TV shows in the tag list or if you chose "Music Videos" you will see specific artists in the list of tags
- Once you drill down far enough, if you would like to aggregate these results into a dynamic RSS feed click the "(RSS)" link at the end of the breadcrumbs; this will then show you the RSS feed constructed with the 16 most recent pieces of content that match your criteria
- Feel free to assemble several of these RSS feeds to get a list of specific content that you want to see!
Enjoy!