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.
jQuery extension to fetch a rss feed and return it as JSON object
How to use Facebook with a feed reader
URL tricks to get at RSS feeds from various parts of Facebook
Pretty awesome looking news aggregator based on Drupal.
“Real-time feed parsing in the cloud for web-developers”
A few different people have asked me recently how I created the activity stream/life stream you see in the sidebar of Dented Reality. It’s actually really simple, and all it does is load up the feeds from a few different locations, combine them in date order and then output them on my page using an HTML “UL” (unordered list). Based on the source of each feed, it also adds a CSS class to each list element (LI) so that I can add an appropriate icon. Here’s the complete code that I use, and then I’ll explain some parts of it, and some of what makes it tick: (more…)
Pull the contents of a feed into a WordPress install and re-post the contents as real posts within your install. Easily abused, but might be good for internal “Planet” style sites.
Get hulu content back on boxee, despite it being “removed”
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.