#feeds

What is RSS?

I got an email from someone in relation to FeedBlendr, asking me what RSS really is, and what you’re supposed to do with it. He liked my reply so much that I thought I’d share it here for anyone else who’s having a bit of a tough time understanding all these acronyms (although admittedly I did use another one in my definition, but what the hey?);

“So basically RSS is a way for websites to make their content (normally time-based stuff like blog posts or news) available to people in a machine-readable format (a dialect of XML)”

Hope that helps someone (else) out there!

FeedBlendr – Custom, combined news feeds for the masses

I’ve just released a project I’ve been working on, called FeedBlendr. Basically it allows you to create custom feeds by combining any number of existing RSS or Atom files into a single one. It’s got some funky AJAX-checking on URLs, and soon it will have some slick integration with FeedBurner which should allow me to do some very cool things with it.

Check it out and see if it’s useful – hopefully when combined with some other things I’m working on it’ll allow you to mash feeds up just the way you want them.