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22 Mar 2007 Tags:  

xFruits – Doing More With Feeds

From the web site xFruits is described as:

“…a free online service offering to every user the possibility of:

  • Enriching your home
  • Enlarging your blog’s functionalities
  • Creating, generally, your information system from the RSS feed

XFruits makes possible the Mashup RSS creation in a very simple way thanks to the Composer. You can assemble the bricks together so as to build your own feed-based service. “xFruiter” service’s users are referenced.

xFruits has been thought of as from its origin to be upgradeable and modular, and thus, to allow a developer’s community to take part in the project. Our ambition is to create dozens of new bricks!”

It can aggregate many feeds into a single feed, convert RSS to email for an email alert of new posts (and vice versa - a feed for unread email in your inbox), RSS to voice to turn blog posts into podcasts (some restrictions here - more at vocalfruits.com), create an OPML list of your RSS feeds that can be converted to web for mobile, convert RSS to PDF, convert RSS to a web page, and combinations thereof.

Do more with your feeds
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9 Feb 2007 Tags:    

Where’s Web2.0?

There are probably a whole lot of Web2.0 collections out there but go2web20.net is certainly the most Web2.0 of them that I have come across. There’s a whole lot of time-killin’ potential if you’re planning on visiting.

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8 Feb 2007 Tags:   

A Series of Pipes

Over the past week or so I have been getting re-acquainted with my Yahoo account ever since Flickr decided I needed to tie my two accounts together. Lo and behold I discovered their mashup service Pipes. I can’t help but think that the name is a wink to Ted Stevens’ tubes - which still makes me turn my head in shame each time I hear it (full context here).

Despite my novice programming skills and lack of desire to read the directions, I was able to cobble together a local search for coffee within 10 miles of a user-provided location - all within about 3 minutes.

More interesting than what individual users can do is that Pipes lets you view the inner workings of Pipes created by others and clone them into other modified mashups.

So maybe there are some tubes in there somewhere. See also: Dapper - the data mapper

Yahoo-Pipes

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31 Jul 2006 Tags: 

Making Harry Potter Much Better

Wizard People, Dear Reader - a parody on the first Harry Potter Movie - is a wonderful piece of derivative art work that tickles the funny bone. Thanks to coudal.com for the lead.

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