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Yahoo Pipes

Yahoo Pipes: More down than up.

Yahoo Pipes is a free Internet service by Yahoo, which allows you to aggregate and manipulate RSS feeds. I use them extensively for several of my aggregation sites like Humanitarian News and AidNews, to name a few. Recently, Yahoo Pipes silently went from “Beta” to “Production”, a migration which was only noticed as the word [...]

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The best free and sophisticated RSS tools

The past few weeks, I have been quite busy working with RSS feeds. I continue to be surprised about the possibilities RSS gives us, bloggers and web developers alike. Here is an overview of the tools I discovered: From RSS feed to Javascript: Feed2JS If you want to spice up a page on your website, [...]

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RSS reversed: From Feed to Blog

We all use RSS mostly to read updates from different sites. What if we could reverse this, and use RSS to actually populate a site? Here is a story of RSS, in reverse. Maybe we should call it SSR instead of RSS… Both for work, and in my spare time, I scan the news (and [...]

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The Diagram of a Social Media Network

click for a high res view. In a previous post I explained in laymen’s terms what RSS feeds are, and what they can do for you as a reader, and as a blogger. A more technical post, described some of the technical tools I use to “transform” RSS feeds to different platforms. As my “network” grew [...]

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