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Updated Sites Module
This Updated Sites Module allows other sites to ping your site when they have created new content. You can then display a "recently updated sites" list based on the sites that send you pings.
The module will accept either a standard Weblogs.com style ping (which is most common) or an Extended Ping.
There are two areas of information for this module: