Tag: FEED

Feed2JS is a handy service that will let you embed any RSS or Atom feed in your web site or blog. All you have to do is paste in the URL of a feed and Feed2JS will give you a snippet of JavaScript that will display the feed on your page. Feed2JS is pretty configurable, letting you choose how many items to display, whether it will show full items or just headlines, whether or not to strip HTML from ...

Continuing on our obsession with RSS today, comment 87 from James on my RSS Readers: Sound Off! post got me thinking. If anyone out there does not use RSS, why not? What don't you like about RSS, or what makes you not want to use RSS? Living in a very saturated tech world myself and being an IT administrator, I use RSS as a part of daily life, and don't really understand why you wouldn't use it ...

SocialMail is a handy service from Big in Japan that will turn any e-mail inbox or mailing list into an RSS feed. It's pretty simple: you sign up and get a unique @biggu.com e-mail address. Then you can put that e-mail address on a mailing list or forward messages from your inbox to it and they'll automatically be posted to an RSS feed. The latter functionality can be handy if your company has a ...

I'm glad Google didn't wait too long on this one. A week after the release of Google Calendar, they've released the API that will allow third-party developers to build tool for interacting with it. The Google Calendar Data API includes functions for fetching a calendar's feed, adding events, and requesting events based on date range. So far it's pretty basic, and I think we can expect it to be ...

Development on the somewhat unpopular Google Reader doesn't seem to go at a furious pace, but every couple months they drop a new feature into it and usually it's at least marginally cool. Yesterday was such an event, and the feature they've added lets you share selected items from the feeds you read with your friends. Now each label in Google Reader has a "make public" option, and when ...

Feedo Style is a service that lets you create a custom scrolling news box  from any RSS feed that you can embed in any web site. Setting it up is really easy. You just enter a feed URL and then tweak the box's appearance to your heart's content (well, almost—the style options are a bit limited, but if you have a knack for CSS I imagine you could add your own tweaks in your site's own ...

Yes! Google Video has added RSS feeds so you can keep tabs on new videos matching the keywords of your choice. It's alpha right now, so there's no direct links to feeds and you'll have to get to them the hard way. The URL looks something like this: http://video.google.com/videofeed?type=search&q=guitar&num=20&output=rss You can change "guitar" to whatever keyword(s) you want ...