Building a better RSS Feed
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"Feed Your Reader" Firefox Feed
Extension
"Feed Your Reader" Firefox Feed
Extension
09/20/2004 10:22 AMWhen Firefox add
ed RSS support, I had mixed reactions. On the one hand, I was
excited by the boost RSS would receive by being supported in a popular
browser. But on the other hand, for obvious reasons I wasn't wild
about how Firefox built RSS into the browser without enabling users to
choose an external RSS reader.
So, I was glad when several FeedDemon customers talking about building an extension to enable FeedDemon
to take advantage of the new Firefox RSS features.
Michael Koziarski rose to
the challenge and created F
eed Your Reader, a Firefox extension that enables you to subscribe
to feed in FeedDemon - or any other RSS reader that supports the feed:
// protocol. Which means that even though the extension was
designed with FeedDemon in mind, it's not specific to FeedDemon.
Initial tests show that it also works with NetNewsWire on the
Mac.
Once this extension is installed, you'll see an additional "FYR"
icon in Firefox's status bar right next to the existing RSS icon.
Clicking the FYR icon displays a menu of auto-discovered feeds, and
clicking one of these feeds will display FeedDemon's "New Channel"
wizard to subscribe to it.
Details on Feed Your Reader are h
ere, and the project page is here. If you're viewing
this in Firefox, the download link to the XPI (extension) is here
.
XML-Feed-0.05
XML-Feed-0.05
01/01/2005 06:44 PMXML-Feed-0.02
XML-Feed-0.02
07/30/2004 07:06 AMFeed
Feed
07/30/2004 02:08 PMThe Need for Feed(s)
The Need for Feed(s)
04/07/2005 05:02 AMFor online newspapers, news aggregators like Google News are a mixed
blessing: They can generate big traffic, but maybe they're also
stealing a bit of thunder. Some newspapers are about to fight back
with services of their own. By John Gartner.
XML-RSS-Feed-1.05
XML-RSS-Feed-1.05
04/29/2004 12:37 AMSorry about the RSS Feed
Sorry about the RSS Feed
05/05/2004 10:32 PMI'm still learning how to work the plumbing in here. I was supposed to
put something somewhere to get a full RSS feed. So all my posts have
been truncated. I will fix that soon.
XML-Feed-0.01
XML-Feed-0.01
06/02/2004 07:19 AMFeed you
Feed you
11/25/2003 10:24 PMWow, that's what
I call feedback! It's a shame pretty much everyone hates the new
design but I like it so it stays. I've taken a few tips
though and tweaked the link colours a bit, as well as making a few
other small changes such as a darker green for the header and a 1em
margin around the page.
In an attempt to satiate the voracious appetite for RSS displayed by some of
my visitors I've set up two new feeds: Blog comments and Blogmarks. I don't
use an aggregator myself so I'd appreciate feedback on how well they
work. I've also put together a blogmarks archive - no
search engine yet, but it's on the list.
Feed 0.6.4
Feed 0.6.4
04/08/2005 12:00 PMFeed is a RSS and Atom news reader, with the latest version released
in February 2005. The developer wrote this application because all of
the existing freeware RSS readers were more of a "hybrid between
iTunes and a web browser," and he wanted something that was more like
an email client.
The application is described as being "simple and familiar" including
a single window interface, and it lives up to that claim. Because
Feed is designed to work like a mail program, individual articles are
displayed directly in Feed.
The latest version of Feed now features drag and drop support,
allowing the user to drag text and URL clippings directly into the
Feed drawer from any application. Adding links from other
applications is simple, and any feed or article can be dragged from
Feed to another application that accepts Text or URL clippings. The
application also features audio notifications allowing the user to
choose any of the built in sounds to play when a new item becomes
available. Articles can be bookmarked in the feed list with a simple
command or by dragging the link to the Feed drawer, allowing articles
to be grouped for later reading or to save an article indefinitely.
The user has the option to completely customize the way feeds are
managed and displayed with the drag and drop interface. Feeds can be
grouped into folders and then display all articles in the group
together. The application currently supports all versions of Atom and
RSS allowing the importing and exporting of existing RSS feed
subscriptions in the industry-standard OPML format.
System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Pros:
User-friendly
Drag and drop
Free
Cons:
No help available
If your company has a product you would like Spymac to review, please
send an email to news@spymac.com.
XML-Feed-0.04
XML-Feed-0.04
01/01/2005 12:54 AMItanium, .NET Feed Off Each Other
Itanium, .NET Feed Off Each Other
10/29/2003 03:29 AM
Intel is targeting developers with the help of its longtime Wintel
partner Microsoft help to propel its 64-bit enterprise gamble.
the Atom feed
the Atom feed
05/12/2004 01:30 AMgoogle.com/googleblog/atom.xml
track this
site | 4 links
Feed-Find-0.03
Feed-Find-0.03
09/07/2004 01:29 AMRSS Feed Observations
RSS Feed Observations
09/01/2004 01:40 PMYesterday D. Keith Robinson asked for opinions on RSS, and today he posted a summary of the responses.
feed your eyes!
feed your eyes!
06/15/2004 12:40 AM
netdiver, a new media design
portal and digital culture magazine. If you care at all about
webdesign, you should see this.
(Though I found it through
random surfing, it was also an answer to an
old question of mine.) Upgraded the feed.
Upgraded the feed.
03/15/2003 08:20 AMSo, I just upgraded the feed to MovableType version 2.6.3, hope I
didn't break anyone's blog (besides my own; Something...
How to track an RSS feed
How to track an RSS feed
08/31/2004 06:59 PMAccording to the HTTP specification, RSS/Atom aggregators should
obey the HTTP
301 Moved Permanently header by altering the stored
subscription URL
for the feed they are attempting to retrieve.
This behaviour can be used to track repeat aggregator hits
to a feed, in essence the equivalent a setting a permanent cookie. The
first time an aggregator hits the published feed address, a 301 header
is served redirecting that aggregator to a new URL incorporating a
unique ID. The aggregator permanently changes the stored subscription
URL, meaning
future request to that feed will carry the unique ID that was assigned
the first time the feed was retrieved.
At its most innocent, this could allow people to track
their number of unique subscriptions - although the value of this
would be severely diluted if people started deliberately subscribing
to the same redirected feed URL. I'm sure there are more insidious uses for this
as well.
Maybe aggregators should prompt users when a feed has
permanently moved, to prevent them from being tracked without their
knowledge.
Feed Your Reader
Feed Your Reader
09/20/2004 08:13 AMMichael Koziarski: Once you’ve installed FYR you’ll see a
new Feed Icon () in the status bar, that behaves just like the live
bookmarks menu. However, instead of opening the bookmarks menu,
selecting an item will launch your Feed Reader. [via Nick Bradbury]
Cool! Wishlist: allow an option to support
http://www.bloglines.com/sub/
instead of feed: instructions on how to remove the current icon,
making
this a replacement instead of an addition replaceable icon - to me it
makes sense to display the icon of your feed reader instead Is the
source to this extension available?
RSS feed back up
RSS feed back up
03/15/2003 11:29 PMDon’t ask…...
Feed-Find-0.01
Feed-Find-0.01
08/18/2004 07:10 AMNecho 0.1 Feed
Necho 0.1 Feed
10/28/2003 11:06 PM
I've gone ahead and started fiddling with a
Blosxom plug-in and
flavour templates for an outgoing
NECHO 0.1 feed.
Here it is.
I'll be making an initial necho plug-in and flavour template bundle
available for all Blosxom users shortly.
Update: Dave Walker's apparently
done
preciselly the fiddling I did, releasing his
flavour.necho files
for use in your own Blosxom blog.
"Your RSS Feed is broken.."
"Your RSS Feed is broken.."
06/05/2004 04:19 AMFeed Has Moved!
Feed Has Moved!
10/28/2003 11:07 PMRSS 2.0 feed is at
http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss
Pop culture will feed itself
Pop culture will feed itself
10/28/2003 11:07 PMThere's a football team in Massachusetts called the New England
Patriots. There are a group of women called the New England Patriots
Cheerleaders who dance...
Shut up and feed me!
Shut up and feed me!
08/20/2004 02:26 PM
Catch
and Release As I find this nearly impossible I have great
confidence that the mefites will quickly master this.
It beats
working. Fun Flash Friday RSS Feed Information
RSS Feed Information
06/09/2004 06:54 PMWFIE-TV,IN-57 minutes ago ... There are a number of different News
Readers available; click on the Google link below to find links to the
most popular products, many of which are free to ...
Feed-Directory
Feed-Directory
09/14/2004 05:36 AMFeed-Directory.comhttp://www.Feed-Directory.com/
Feed-Directory.com is a complete directory of syndicated
feeds. With over several thousand feeds in its database,
Feed-Directory.com is one of the biggest feed directories on the web,
and every day several thousand more are added. The complete internet
is crawled by a special feed spider that tries to identify RSS and
Atom feeds. This process takes several weeks, and is never finished.
This has been added to Directory Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Feed: protocol
Feed: protocol
02/01/2005 08:54 PMIn
Reall
y Simple Subscription, FeedDemon developer Nick Bradbury suggests
using the
feed: protocol to make subscribing to RSS and Atom feeds
easier.
I agree.
Nick also says that the solution is not perfect, and I agree with that
too. But it does work and it has broad support in existing
aggregators.
It’s just not used on the web that much yet. But, if it were
used, we’d have really simple subscription today, since
it’s already supported in so many aggregators.
(Someone will ask, “Why not use MIME types?” Answer:
because aggregators need the URL of a feed, not the content, in order
to subscribe.)
Sometimes I think the whole issue is just that we haven’t agreed
on a graphic. Nick posted a “Feed” graphic on his post.
Last year,
Bryan Bell made a
few: perhaps one of these would be good?
I think that orange should not be used, to avoid confusion with the
orange XML graphic.
How To Post to a Feed
How To Post to a Feed
04/16/2004 07:47 PMSuppose I want to use one of the blogging APIs, for example, the
under-development
Atom
Publishing Protocol, to post an entry to a blog or whatever, with
the expectation that this is going to show up in my syndication feed.
Suppose that the entry includes some pictures or movies. Should be
easy, people do this all the time, right?...
+1 for Feed URI Scheme
+1 for Feed URI Scheme
01/22/2004 02:12 AM
On the issue of whether to introduce a new URI scheme to allow
one-click feed subscription,
in spite of W3C Technical Architecture Group's position against new
URI schemes, I
am adding my vote to Dare
Obasanjo's proposal which is already in fairly wide use.
While I understand
W3C TAG's position, a less than ideal solution is better than
expecting the world
to accept the right solution.
If you are unfamiliar with this issue, Jon
Udell has a post with links and words.
Update:
I should note that neither schemes address the need to support
multiple aggregators
at the same time. I thought about writing a general feed
subscription management
plugin for IE but haven't found the time yet.
RSS feed fixed
RSS feed fixed
04/09/2004 11:51 PMIt was brought to our attention today that many of our RSS readers
were getting old stories only. This was due to a complication with the
host a week or two back. We apologize for this. Everyone should now be
on the same page.
Like Pixels? Check out
MacDesignAtom Feed
Atom Feed
03/06/2004 01:55 AM
A few people mentioned that my rss feeds were broken even though they
passed through the validator without errors, so I mangled them a bit
tonight and also added an atom feed while I
was at it. Atom is the
result of the rss flamewars a few months ago and, while I couldn't
care less about XML, atom does appear to have a saner format. I also
tried out Shrook since
I've not been entirely happy with Netnewswire and found that I really
like it much better, especially the iTunes style of organisation and
navigation of the feeds.
New feed locations
New feed locations
01/28/2004 07:42 PMImportant: Most of the feeds on this site has moved to the /files/
subdirectory. If your aggregator is well-behaved, it...
Feed-Find-0.04
Feed-Find-0.04
01/01/2005 12:54 AMFeed Your Head
Feed Your Head
12/30/2004 05:16 AMPodcasting is DIY radio for programmers and listeners alike. Will
it save us from corporate radio? Or further isolate us inside our own
miniature media worlds? By Dan Kennedy, Boston Phoenix
The "feed" URI scheme
The "feed" URI scheme
01/16/2004 01:04 PMDare Obasanjo recently posted the final draft of the "feed" URI scheme, along with a request for comments on the draft.
The feed URI scheme is designed to simplify identifying and
subscribing to syndicated feeds, and I'm planning to fully support it
in the next build of FeedDemon. My thanks to Dare for taking the time
to create this document.
Like an RSS feed for video
Like an RSS feed for video
04/21/2004 09:06 PMAlan from demandmedia.net has a SMIL powered
videofeed. The good part is: it addresses the scanning problem (video
is hard to scan).
It works like a TV channel with a forward button: if you get tired
of a particular video, just click the next >| button and you are taken
to the next video within seconds. I like how he uses SMIL to add some
text above the videos within Realplayer.
It's kinda like an RSS feed for video: 
DemandMedia SMIL Videofeed
(PS: feel free to copy this button if you like it.)
The third video right now is a short history of the internet. Kinda
cool.
RDF Feed Verification
RDF Feed Verification
02/01/2005 09:26 PMI added code to the FeedValidator to take advantage of rdflib to
validate that feeds that are based on an RDF based feed format (0.90,
1.0, and 1.1) are, in fact, valid RDF. Example.
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