Building proprietary feed parsing is a pain and with FeedProxy for Feeds you don't need to.
Driven by the same translation services powering Cliqset.com, FeedProxy translates feed data from over 80 services into persistent Activity Streams compliant Atom feeds. Forget worrying about understanding proprietary feed formatting and learn a single, open standard for expressing what people are doing around the web.
via feedproxy.cliqset.com Cool - there's a bunch of people already doing this.
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via notify.io
In about 30 minutes I was able to get a website I maintain notifying me when certain things happen using a single line of Ruby code:res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(NOTIFY_URL), {'text'=>'Somebody is looking at that page.', 'link'=>'http://example.net', 'title'=>'Website', 'api_key'=>NOTIFY_API_KEY})Very cool - I'm going to add this to a few other sites where it makes sense. I've always wanted Growl notifications when certain things happen on sites I manage - this is the best way I've seen to make it happen.
PostBin lets you debug web hooks by capturing and logging the asynchronous requests made when events happen. Make a PostBin and register the URL with a web hook provider. All POST requests to the URL are logged for you to see when you browse to that URL. via postbin.org
Superfeedr is the brainchild of French developer Julien Genestoux, a leading authority on the emerging crop of applications and systems based on delivering data with extremely low-latency. The project is the evolution of Notifixious (which I've previous profiled), which sought to help content creators by making the distribution of RSS- and Atom-based feeds currently in use more expedient. via jasonsalas.com
via slideshare.net This is super old (in web years) but super good.
So where did they go wrong, and how can you avoid making the same mistake?
It’s simple. Never ask people what they think of your product or idea.
via entrepreneur.venturebeat.com Interesting.
I like webfinger for a couple/few reasons:
1. It reminds me of finger - which was cool. Sort of an old school twitter/blog before the web.
2. It got me using OpenID again, which I've had an account for forever but:
I could never remember which browser I installed the certificate in. I could never remember the URL. 3. It can help to group a person's online identity together - at least the parts that you want to show.
Prior to the Vancouver Games, no Winter Olympic athlete had been killed during an event. But the 1964 Games in Innsbruck were overshadowed by the deaths of two competitors before it began. via news.bbc.co.uk That's not a great record to have.