Fark Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Fark Services

Back to top of FAQ

• Fark Services
  • What is FarkIt™?
  • What is Fark This®?
  • What is the Fark Newsflash service?
  • What is Fark on PDA?
  • So you'd like to do a headline swap...

---

Fark Services

What is FarkIt™?

The FarkIt™ button is an easy way to get news articles on your site linked to Fark. By including either our easy-to-install script (which includes a button image), or manually using your own image, you can link directly into Fark's submission service. More Info on FarkIt™

What is Fark This®?

Fark This® is just another way to refer to FarkIt™.

What is the Fark Newsflash service?

Want to get newsflashes the moment we post them? Subscribe to Fark's Newsflash service and you will receive an email containing a link to the Newsflash article. Fark monitors all of the news websites simultaneously so you don't have to. Be the first in your office to tell everyone else what the hell is going on when a story breaks.

If your phone or pager allows SMS messages to be sent via email, we can send the notices to your phone or pager, too, if you enter your SMS email address.

To activate this, go to your MyFark profile, and go into the edit mode by entering your password at the very top of your profile. At the bottom, you'll see a Subscription section, where you can enable the News Flash emails.

When you enable a subscription, it only stays active for one year -- you have to go back and re-enable it each year. The dates are displayed on the profile edit screen. (This is so that in the rare case where your email address changes and the old one gets assigned to someone else, we won't get as many complaints wrongly accusing us of spamming.) We will probably add a way to select subscription duration, and a notification of a pending expiration, in the near future.

Be sure that your spam filters allow email notifications from Fark.

What is Fark on PDA?

Fark has a slimmed down version of Fark designed for mobile devices -- Palm, Pocket PC, cell phones with HTML (not WAP) browsers, etc. You can find it at http://www.fark.com/pda/.

For TotalFark subscribers, there's a pda version at http://www.totalfark.com/pda/.

So you'd like to do a headline swap...

Fark Headline Swaps are easy to implement. For our side, we need from your organization a logo 30px high by up to 275px wide (but no smaller than 100px wide). We also need the URL of the RSS feed you'd like us to publish.

To include Fark's headlines on your site, simply use the following RSS feeds:

Main Page: http://www.fark.com/fark.rss

Sports: http://www.fark.com/sports/fark.rss

Business: http://www.fark.com/business/fark.rss

Geek: http://www.fark.com/geek/fark.rss

Showbiz: http://www.fark.com/showbiz/fark.rss

Politics: http://www.fark.com/politics/fark.rss

Music: http://www.fark.com/music/fark.rss

Video: http://www.fark.com/video/fark.rss

And our logos: