Tag Archives | syndication

Mix Multiple Feeds into One

Jun/10 in Online Apps

Mix Your Feeds with FeedMingle

FeedMingle is an interesting tool that will combine multiple feeds into one to produce a combined RSS, Atom, JSON, or widget.  This can come in handy when you need to track multiple feeds, however you would like to have them all in one general location. 

The tool itself is easy enough to use.  No need to login for now.  All you do is plug your feeds into the web site, and you are done.  For example, I merged together the feeds for the Web Hosting Show, Firefox Facts and Mitchelaneous into one super Mitch-loving feed here:

The widget that the script produces (which could be copied and pasted onto your own site or profile) is a little on the simple side – but there is still plenty of room for improvement. 

FeedMingle Widget

Overall, FeedMingle is worth giving a shot if you need to merge multiple feeds into one huge feed.  It is there to make life simpler for web designers, developers, feed readers, bloggers or anybody else who may need a new way to deliver their content.  I am very excited to see what they do with this service down the road.

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Create a RSS Feed From Any Site

Mar/25 in Online Apps

Is your favorite web site missing an RSS feed for you to subscribe to for updates?  Here is a handful of online applications that will help you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds.  Create an RSS feed for any web page with these tools.

  • Feedity – Very simple to use, and no fuss web page to RSS conversions.
  • Feed43 – For tweakers, this is the tool for you.  Check out the tutorial to see all the customizations you can do.
  • Dapper – Easy to use tool for visually creating your own RSS feed from any site out there.
  • FeedMarklet – A no-fuss interface.  It won’t scrape content but makes it easy to add your own.
  • FeedYes – Automatically generated feeds for any page on the Web.
  • Page2RSS – It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds.
  • Ponyfish – Simple web-based tool that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any web page.
  • FeedBeater – Just plug the web site URL in, and let the web site take care of the rest of the conversion.
  • FeedFire – This site will take virtually any web page and convert it into a fully formed and fully coded RSS feed.

Out of them all, I think FeedMarklet and Feedity probably have the easiest interface to get started with, and Feed43 has the most options to customize and tweak till you get things just the way you want them.  I would suggest giving them all a shot though, and see which one does to the best job for you, depending on the page you are trying to pull RSS information from.

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Mitchelaneous : Followed by More than 600 Awesome People

Aug/06 in Personal, Web Development Tutorials

600plussubscribers Just wanted to share some exciting news this morning, Mitchelaneous has finally broken the 600 subscribers mark!  I’ve been watching this one for a while, since I had been hovering in 580 subscribers to 590 subscribers for some time.

To check out every single post, be sure to check out the archives (all of them are on one single page!)  It goes all the way back to an article that no longer exists anymore.  Fun times, indeed.  If you want to go WAY back in time – check out how things looked back in 2005!

Mitchelaneous in 2005!

Not old enough?  Well happened to find a version from back in 2004 (the year the Mitchelaneous fun started here):

mitchelaneous2004

Want to help celebrate?  Tell your friends, family and your neighbor’s dog they should be subscribing!  Need some help?

Subscribe in a Reader! | Subscribe to Mitchelaneous by E-mail

Add to Google Reader or Homepage Subscribe in NewsGator Online Add to My AOL Add to netvibes Subscribe in Bloglines Add to The Free Dictionary Add to Plusmo Subscribe in NewsAlloy Add to Excite MIX Add to netomat Hub Add to fwicki Add to flurry Add to Webwag Add to Attensa Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site. Add to Pageflakes

You can also just copy and paste this into your feed reader of choice too:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/mitchelaneous

Thanks for following me for the past 4+ years!  You are the awesome 600+ that keep me going day after day and I REALLY do appreciate it.

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Alltop is all the best of the web?

Mar/04 in Online Apps

Inspired by popurls, Alltop hopes to deliver you what popurls does but do so in a way that covers more content rather than cool page tweaks. If your looking for a way to browse through a lot of news rather quickly, without cluttering up your RSS feed reader then Alltop is a must have bookmark.

Best of the Web?

From celebrities, gaming, news, photos, politics, food and more they have more than just a few topics covered well. They also seem to specialize in just bringing the best resources on a lot of different topics together in one spot.

Where a place like popurls gives you general geeky web goodness with a lot of page customization tweaks, Alltop focuses on delivering you as much relative content as they can and do so in a stylish way.

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FeedBurner Networks

Oct/11 in Hot Web Topics

feedburner.jpgI saw a “My Networks” link on top of FeedBurner that I had never seen before. Silly me, I just had to click it! This was the message sent my way via the tubes.

We can’t say, but since you landed here, we applaud your curiosity! You are one of a select group of FeedBurner publishers who can now create and discover other FeedBurner Networks. Networks is our new service (still in beta) that helps subscribers, other publishers and even advertisers more easily discover your great content.

This looks like a really interesting idea. I like the idea of bringing feeds and media together in little hubs for people to subscribe to. You can go join a network that is already in place, or you can go and create your own.

So what is to be gained by joining one of these networks?

Every participating publisher has an equal opportunity to appear on a network “landing page” that is comprised of the most recent headlines from the collective group (view an sample landing page). We encourage publishers to brand their network with a descriptive and compelling name and even include a logo.

FeedBurner provides a number of promotional tools to help participants get the word out including a network badge, chicklet and FeedBurner’s popular BuzzBoost service. In addition, publishers who are invited to join a network will also have the opportunity to submit their feed to FeedBurner’s growing advertising network, FAN.

Check out more details on this at FeedBurner.com’s Web site.

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Rojo Blows, News Alloy Saves!

Sep/19 in Online Apps

Since the new Rojo is extremely buggy, I have had to move feed readers yet again. This time around I think I have found a keeper. NewsAlloy.com is one of the quickest and cleanest Web-based feed readers I have seen in a while.

topnews_logo.gifI had no problem importing my OPML list into News Alloy, and once I did I was ready to go. You see, I like to see a long list of entries in my feed reader that I can scan down. Once I have reached the bottom, I want to be able to get rid of them for good. It is such a simple idea, I don’t know why more Online feed readers don’t provide this simple view aspect.

Another nice thing I liked about this service is it didn’t choke on my number of RSS feeds that I subscribe to.

So if you are looking for a quick and reliable way of going through your feeds, give News Alloy a shot.

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xFruits – RSS Tools

Aug/23 in Online Apps

Want to do a little more with your RSS feeds? There is no doubt that having all your content in that little syndicated bag of gold is really handy. Now with xFruits, it can be even better.

With xFruits you can go from:

+ many RSS feeds to just one RSS feed
+ RSS feed to web page
+ RSS to a mobile device
+ E-mail to an RSS feed
+ RSS feed to PDF

I was playing around with the Aggregator RSS option and made one big RSS feed out of the RSS feeds I had for Mitchelaneous, the Web Hosting Show, Firefox Facts, and Mitch’s Midgets.

After I finished that, I made a mobile edition of Mitchelaneous.

If you are looking for a few new tricks for your RSS feed, definitely check them out!

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Hosting Hoopla 2

Jul/29 in Web Hosting

I have started work on the next version of Hosting Hoopla. The past few months have been a nice trying out period, and now I’m going to take some of your suggestions and comments and work it into the Web site.

New Three Column Design – I wanted a cleaner look that had more content, but was still easy on the eyes. I have also sectioned off the front page into Inside Industry News, Outside Industry News, and Web Hosting Forums. Now all three sections can be seen evenly.

hbeta1.jpgNew Colors – I am going to keep the idea of being able to change the Web page’s CSS (and being able to save your favorite look). This time around everything is going to stay basically the same as far as layout goes, I am just going to add more colors. So far the two I have developed for this early beta is a blue and gray theme and one that looks more like the “classic” Hosting Hoopla orange and white.

If you have anymore idea on what you would like to see on the new HostingHoopla.com, be sure to leave a comment and let me know about it.

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