Joomlatools: "It's even more frustrating when I see a Joomla! 1.5 site that doesn't have proper feeds. J!1.5 makes it so easy, and still some people manage to mess it up."

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Few features are as essential to modern Web browsing as feeds. With the rise of social networking and file sharing sites, feeds have become the only way for many people to keep up-to-date with all the sites that interest them. Certainly feeds are more efficient than resolutely clicking dozens or hundreds of bookmarks one after another. To satisfy the need to feed, developers have written dozens of Firefox add-ons to help you view both classic feed formats and sites that lack a feed.

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I'm looking forward to evaluating the new FeedAPI module for Drupal. Though one feature I haven't seen in any of the aggregators I've seen so far for Drupal...a way to snip the original RSS feed. Some sites provide you the entire post in the RSS feed with no teaser. This may be great for the reader, but I'm not sure everyone is happy to see their entire post on someone else's site.

From time to time, I've hacked the core to get me closer to how I would like the content from an RSS feed to display at my site. There has to be another way and perhaps FeedAPI could by my solution...

Development Seed: FeedAPI 1.0 Released -

After being in development for about seven months, we released FeedAPI 1.0 nearly two weeks ago! This is really exciting for me and everyone else who has been craving a more flexible aggregator for Drupal.

"Get innovative with the well-known Really Simple Syndication format's associative properties and emulate the functions of a simple relational database. Use RSS elements and attributes such as items and guids to create a neural-network-like mesh of related data, and use RSS channels to store contact information and meeting information, much like a personal address book and calendar."

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"Microsoft recently announced “FeedSync” (refer to the article cited below), as the evolution of its previous work known as Simple Sharing Extensions, or SSE. My initial reaction is that this announcement is somewhat of a "one off". Microsoft has not articulated any coherent vision on XML feeds and the end-to-end management of feeds in general and this announcement does not clarify its strategy."

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"I think there’s a lesson here for us as we think about helping more people get the full benefits of the Web. RSS is a fundamental technology that is changing and broadening the way everyone can find and stay up to date with information that matters to them. Yet awareness of RSS is minimal."

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