Simplepie. Traffic. J-Startup News. 10 Ways to Maximize Your Google Reader Link Blog. I've been sharing articles I've read in Google Reader for the better part of two years. I don't know exactly when I started, but I'm fairly sure I'm nowhere near finished. And while I admittedly started sharing to a link blog without having a clear goal in mind, I'm finding that this massive shared items repository is becoming an incredibly versatile information hub that benefits me, the authors of articles I've shared, and the consumers, be they friends in Google Reader, or in many other locations. I believe that while Google Reader has grown in visibility, arguably becoming the most popular RSS reader on the Web, the utility of shared link blogs is less known.
Here are ten ways you can maximize your Google Reader link blog - most of which I'm doing, and probably didn't anticipate when I first started sharing items into the ether. 1. Do so with some regularity, and you might be surprised as to how people come to rely on your manual intervention and news discovery. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. HOW TO: Use Google Reader Like A Rockstar. Google Reader recently got a facelift; with a fresh look and features, a lot of people are buzzing about the service. Knowing that new users are signing up and veterans are looking for some ideas to make their experience even better, we have put together a quick how-to that should offer something for everyone.
Tell us in the comments about what you do to get the most out of Google Reader! History of Google Reader When RSS became a standard for publishing material on the web, the way that we received our information changed very quickly. Google Reader is robust in features, and can be used "out of the box" for those that just want a point and click solution, or tweaked so that power users can play around. Getting Started With Google Reader As a browser based application it's easy to get going; no need to download software. If you are entirely new to the world of blogs or if you want to simply expand your reading, click on the "Browse for stuff" link and go to the "Browse" tab. Drupal. Feed Icons - Home of the Standard Web Feed Icon.
30 Free Vector RSS Icons. Bored with the good old orange RSS button? How about a nice little button in 30 color variations and in vector format? Now you will more to choose from. Also working on date buttons and badges. Advertisemt To use them open/import it on your vectorial/bitmap editor of choice [Photophop, Illustrator, CorelDraw] **Update 11/1/07** Check out the second pack of RSS Vector Icons now with 3D translucent look. **Update 11/2/07** Added PNG files to the .zip Download Please select your desired download method. Like to Download Click Like to Start Your Download! 40+ Really Cool RSS Feed Icons | Free Icons.
About 5 months ago, we brought you an ultimate list for RSS Icons. 5 months later, a number of great free RSS icons flushed the Internet and the ultimate list just wasn’t too ultimate anymore. To find more cool RSS icons, we re-crawled the Internet. We’ve even looked into free icon package so we don’t missed any cool RSS icons. Here’s some really cool RSS feed icons for your blog or website. Full list after jump. Psdbox.pl Smashing Magazine Designed by Dirceu Veiga from Brazil especially for Smashing Magazine as a gift for its readers. 3D Cartoon Icons Pack FreeIconsDownload I Six different icon colours by nyssajbrown FreeIconsDownload II By icojoy FreshIcon Grunge RSS Banners 6 different colors of RSS Banners designed them based on three resources of super famous freebies. Viki Social Bookmark Iconset 17 Multicolor RSS Icon Hat RSS Icon Pixelvalve RSS Icon Blogeeks RSS Icon BarteeX RSS Icon IconTexto BrokerScience Real Estate RSS Icons Katrin Wegmann Skingcito RSS News DrinkRSS RSSIcons.ru Design Freak.
Get the Code To Run on Your Own Server. Get the Code To Run on Your Own Server This information is for web site owners that would like to incorporate our Feed2JS technology on their own site- perhaps to customize it, or just to speed up the access if they feel like a local copy is better. Below you can download the necessary script files. We provide this script as open-source under a GNU General Public License.
To run these scripts, you need a web server capable of running PHP which is rather widely available (and free). Installation That is all! The Simplest Installed Directory Structure Use this outline as a map of the simplest installation, putting all files and Magpie in the same directory. Show us your love, post a badge Brian Teller is keeping Feed2JS alive, thanks Brian (applause) github project site. Blog: Simple Update Protocol: Fetch updates from feeds faster. When you add a web site like Flickr or Google Reader to FriendFeed, FriendFeed's servers constantly download your feed from the service to get your updates as quickly as possible.
FriendFeed's user base has grown quite a bit since launch, and our servers now download millions of feeds from over 43 services every hour. One of the limitations of this approach is that it is difficult to get updates from services quickly without FriendFeed's crawler overloading other sites' servers with update checks. Gary Burd and I have thought quite a bit about ways we could augment existing feed formats like Atom and RSS to make fetching updates faster and more efficient. Our proposal, which we have named Simple Update Protocol, or SUP, is below. SUP is just a proposal at this stage. SUP (Simple Update Protocol) is a simple and compact "ping feed" that web services can produce in order to alert the consumers of their feeds when a feed has been updated. Benefits include: Simple to implement. FeedBurner Help Center - Using and customizing BuzzBoost appeara. Creating Your BuzzBoost Code Snippet To use BuzzBoost, navigate to the Publicize tab for your feed and select the BuzzBoost service from the menu on the left.
Set BuzzBoost options the way you like, then click Activate (or Save if the service is already active). Next, copy the BuzzBoost code snippet that FeedBurner generates for your feed and paste it into any webpage template you currently publish. When you view that page with a browser, BuzzBoost now displays your chosen feed’s headlines (and optional content item excerpts and date stamps, depending on your settings). Customizing BuzzBoost’s Appearance Your BuzzBoost output is marked up with id and class attributes, providing you with plenty of options for styling your resyndicated feed using Cascading Style Sheets. Here’s a dissection of the output code, along with some tips for applying styles. First, the code output as a whole.
And now, we break it down line by line. <p class="feedTitle">Feed Title Goes Here</p> Just closing things out. FeedBurner Help Center - Common BuzzBoost Styling Tricks. We've gotten a fair number of requests for similar styling effects with BuzzBoost, and it's high time we finally summarized some of the basic CSS techniques required to achieve these effects.
We have a couple of popular favorites here and we will add additional tips over time. Remove Default Bullets This is by far the most popular request. On most sites, the surefire way to remove bullets of any kind from BuzzBoost is to add the following snippet to your existing CSS stylesheet: To remove bullets just on BuzzBoost headlines and leave bullets in item content intact, try this code: Put Additional Space between Titles and Headlines If the standard spacing between post titles and headlines seems a bit tight, you may want to give the headline itself characteristics similar to a full paragraph.
This technique should work well whether or not you have chosen to display post dates. View Burning Questions BuzzBoost Source (new window) BuzzBoost Sample Applications. With the ability to republish your feed as HTML, the possibilities are endless. But if you’re looking for inspiration, you’ve come to the right place. Everything you see here is free for the taking. Check out some of our sample uses for BuzzBoost: Cross-promote your blog If you publish more than one site, BuzzBoost makes it easy to cross-promote content from one on the other.
Configure your BuzzBoost script to include short plain-text excerpts, then tweak your style sheets to match the look and feel of your blog. Feel free to copy and paste our style sheet for use in your own site. Cross-promote your podcast Plug your podcast in your blog sidebar or on any other site you publish. Publish a “mobile” edition Since BuzzBoost can output the full HTML contents of your feed, you can easily use it to create alternate editions of your site. Aggregate content from multiple feeds Combine multiple BuzzBoost scripts on a single web page to bring related content together. Feeds. Languages: English • 日本語 • 한국어 • Português do Brasil • (Add your language) Introduction to Feeds A feed is a function of special software that allows feedreaders to access a site, automatically looking for new content and then posting the information about new content and updates to another site.
This provides a way for users to keep up with the latest and hottest information posted on different blogging sites. There are several different kinds of feeds, read by different feedreaders. WordPress Built-in Feeds By default, WordPress comes with various feeds. URL for RDF/RSS 1.0 feed URL for RSS 0.92 feed URL for RSS 2.0 feed URL for Atom feed URL for comments RSS 2.0 feed The first four feeds display recent updates and changes to your site's content for the different feedreaders. To track the comments on a specific post, the post_comments_feed_link() template tag is used on single post pages like this: There are ways to modify these feeds, and these are covered in the article on Customizing Feeds. Feed.Informer Relaunches Its All-in-one RSS Toolbox - ReadWriteW. There is an infinite variety of things you can do with RSS feeds and a substantial number of those things can be done with Feed.Informer, which was formerly known as Feed Digest and just relaunched today.
This super useful service was acquired in a small, unreported deal earlier this year and today comes out of a dormant period when new account creation was limited. What can you do with Feed.Informer? You can splice feeds together, filter them for keywords and most importantly - display them dynamically on a web page with just a little bit of code. There are other services that do all of these things, but Feed.Informer is so quick and easy to use that a free account is worth checking out and a premium account may be worth paying for. We Love Feed.Informer Feed.Informer is a service I've used regularly for years and happily pay for every chance I get. It is the fastest, easiest and most user-centric way to publish items in a feed dynamically on a page. Why Use This Tool Instead of Others? Read what matters - AideRSS. Rewire the web. 360. Documentation: Sort multiple feeds by time and date.
In SimplePie 1.0, we simplified the process of merging together multiple feeds, sorting them by date, and displaying them. This method allows you to do all of the normal SimplePie stuff without requiring you to do any array hacking or anything. There are, however, two things to keep in mind about merging multiple feeds: When you mash multiple feeds together, how do you know which feed title or favicon to use? You don't. So, the object that gets created when mashing feeds does not have any feed-level data. You can still get at an individual item's parent feed data using the get_feed() method. If you're merging multiple feeds together, they need to all have dates for the items or else PHP will sort them to the top.
ReadBurner - See What's Shared on the Web. FriendFeed Friday Tips #7: Who Are These People, Anyway? By popular demand, I've been asked by other FriendFeed users to highlight how I use the popular social lifestreaming site. So far the series has covered the "Hide" function, the bookmarklet, advanced search, how to integrate with Google Talk, how you can incorporate comments and determine an item's original source. Today, figuring out who you're engaging with on the service. So far, unlike most social networks out there, FriendFeed doesn't utilize a person's profile as the central nervous system around which the service is built. There's no way to post my location, my age, my job title, my birthday, my religion, or marital status. For some, this is surely a blessing. For others, it seems like a feature gap. Filling that gap, until FriendFeed does it in the future, is a GreaseMonkey script developed by Hao Chen.
FriendFeed's stream consists of a collection of updates from disparate services around the Web, from you and your friends. PHP5 Simple XML. Use Custom Tags to Aggregate RSS Feeds into JSP-Based Web Apps [ With the abundance of news and blog (Weblog) sites growing continuously, keeping track of what’s going on can be a daunting task. Fortunately, standards such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) provide an easy way to grab content from a particular site and aggregate it into a news reader application. This means that, rather than looking for news yourself, your news reader monitors sites that you’re interested in and downloads new content as it’s published. This is a great model and many people have taken the concept to the Web by aggregating other content on their own Websites and offering aggregation services via the Web.
In this article, I’ll show you how to use JSP custom tags to implement this type of functionality as a reusable component within your own JSP-based Web applications. Although I’m assuming that you’re comfortable with Java and you have some working knowledge of building Web applications with JavaServer Pages (JSP), I won’t assume any knowledge of JSP custom tags. RSS tutorial: building and using a feed, step by step.
Building and Using an RSS Feed by Denis Sureau What is RSS? It is a format to share data, defined in the 1.0 version of XML. You can deliver information in this format et one can get this information, and information from other various sources, in this format. Information provided by a website in an XML file is called an RSS feed. Recent browsers can read directly RSS files, but a special RSS reader or aggregator may be used too. History Created by Netscape in 1999. Why use RSS? To get information or news provided by websites in a format computers can process. RSS, how it works? The RSS system to publish articles and news over the web is very simple: There are firstly some web pages, one want to be displayed by other websites.
Structure of an RSS document It is an XML file and the global container is the "RSS" tag for the 2.0 format. How to use RSS? 1 - Using RSS on a desktop RSS feeds are displayed by Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2. 2 - Using a feed on a website or Feed. Title. Language. Sorting RSS-feed by date using XSLT | Dmytro Shteflyuk's Ho. My Feeds. Magpie RSS Links: Further Information and Examples. Magpie RSS - PHP RSS Parser. List of News Aggregators. ReBlog by Eyebeam R&D. Reblog.