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!
I haven’t made a formal feed posting API but many people have reverse engineered the Add Feed page to essentially create one. One thing that was missing doing it this way however was that you would not be able to assign ownership to your feed. I’ve made some changes to the Add Feed page to allow ownership and thought that while I was at it I would make a more formal post on how to add feeds via REST.
While this isn’t a formal API, mainly because it doesn’t return anything, it will at least serve the basic purpose at this point in time.
Basics
Send a POST request to: http://www.feedagg.com/add_feed.php
Variables
FeedURL (Required)
Tags (At least one required)
UserName (Optional)
Example
http://www.feedagg.com/add_feed.php?FeedURL=http://example.com/feed.xml&Tags=tag-1 tag2 tag3&UserName=example
Notes
At this time there isn’t a response from the server but that will be coming in the future.
Given the nature of this there will be limited support of this feature for the time being.
Today I’ve added some new features to your feed management pages:
- The ability to add tags.
- The ability to remove tags.
- The ability to delete feeds.
- 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!