FeedAgg Blog

We’ve had a few site issues today that we are working on.  Everything should be back to normal soon and running faster by tomorrow.  Thanks for your patience.

By popular request, I’ve added a new bulk feed addition form here: http://www.feedagg.com/add_feed_bulk.php

Feeds can be separated by either spaces or commas, just like tags.  These seem like the most common but if you use a different type of separator let me know.

Note: The tags you add will be applied to all the feeds you add through the bulk uploader.

This weekend there were a couple bugs in Twitter posting that were discovered.  I’ve made the changes, and things should be working now.  If you spot any problems let me know!

Wouldn’t it be great if you could update your twitter feed when you update your RSS/XML feed?

We thought so too.

Now when you look at your feeds list you will see a link for “Twitter.” When you click that link you will be taken to the 3 step setup process to integrate into Twitter.  Enter the Twitter username you want to post to, authorize, then finally select your update frequency. From there we will check your feed at the frequency your specify and post any changes to your twitter account.

For those worried about handing over your Twitter password to another web site, worry not, we are using the OAuth protocol to verify against Twitter so you don’t need to give us your Twitter password.

If you haven’t been to your user account control panel in a while you should stop by.  I recently made some pretty significant changes.

1. A new look.  The old look was getting cramped and needed an update.

2. Feed Stats.  A lot of them.  Some of the stats available allow you to see what browsers people are using, what search strings people are using to get to your feed, and then what links people are clicking to leave your page.

3. Twitter Integration. Another post will follow detailing this more.

I’m really hoping that these changes will greatly help our publishers promote their feeds.  Give me some feedback and let me know what you think!

Today I’ve added some new features to your feed management pages:

1. The ability to add tags.
2. The ability to remove tags.
3. The ability to delete feeds.
4. The ability to change feed urls.

Check it out here.

A couple of weeks ago I quietly added a basic article publishing feature that probably would be classified as an alpha.  After watching a handful of users interact with it I’ve made some changes and today I am releasing an updated version that I think is safe to call a beta.  You can reach the publisher under your account page.  Let me know what you think.

I’m closing the poll since the results have been pretty stable ever since the first few days.

Here are the final tallies:

Changes will be coming and thanks to everyone who voted! Stay tuned for updates on FeedAgg’s development road map. If you are interested in beta testing new features, please let me know.

One of the primary goals of FeedAgg is to rate feeds and provide new feed discovery to its users.  To that end, today you may have noticed we added a small Related Feeds section to feed displays to facilitate the finding of new feeds that may interest you.  We are extremely excited about this since it goes a long way in achieving our primary mission.  Additionally, the underlying technology behind this is also going to allow for more site enhancements in the future.

UPDATE: Had to remove it temporarily.  Will be back after I fix a couple issues.

I figure with the changes coming to FeedAgg.com that it was time to improve the communication with our users.

As you know, we’ve had a poll running on what sort of improvements you would like to see on FeedAgg.com. I’ve been watching the polling and I’ve already started working on some underlying plumbing to enable those improvements.  I pushed out the first of those changes yesterday and you should have noticed a site-wide improvement in page load times.  Now that the underlying plumbing is in place I’m going to begin development on the bigger features and hope to have some of them up in the next few weeks.

In the mean time, keep an eye on this space and be sure to let me know if you have any suggestions!