JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs. So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. It reflects the lessons learned from our years of work reading and publishing feeds.
Source: JSON Feed: Announcing JSON Feed
A node.js river-of-news aggregator.
Google Code project page for PuSH.
Extensible Resource Descriptor (XRD)
“This document defines Extensible Resource Descriptor (XRD), a simple generic format for describing resources.”
“This document presents an extension that allows activities on social objects to be expressed within the Atom Syndication Format.”
“This document presents a base set of Object types and Verbs for use with Atom Activity Extensions.”
“This document presents an extension to the Atom Syndication Format that defines how media objects such as photos and videos might be represented in Atom and allows additional metadata to be published about linked media representations.”
“coreylib is a PHP library for accessing Web service APIs like Twitter. You can use coreylib to explore APIs, cache their content, create mash-ups, and style the output.”
Excellent list of resources/links/specs relating to Atom and AtomPub.
I’ve just updated the code for FeedGrowler so that it supports custom icons for each feed that you are monitoring. All you need to do is include the full path to an icon/image file as the second argument when you call feedgrowler.php (or in your crontab).
Custom icons for a WordPress feed, and a Twitter search.
This version also supports Atom feeds (in addition to previous RSS 2.0 support).
Check out the latest FeedGrowler.