Simple Feed Analytics with Charts
Posted: May 25, 2009 Filed under: Service Updates 2 Comments »In a continuing effort to enhance the Feedity user experience, we have released a nifty analytics feature for our users. The analytics charts appear on the ‘My Feeds’ page to depict your feeds usage (quota balance) and highlight the most requested feeds for your account.
The analytics charts will appear for all Premium and Pro plan users who have created 5 or more feeds.
Under the hood, among other things we have fixed a few bugs and improved the performance of the Feedity parser. More analytics and other new features are in the works, so stay tuned guys!
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RSS Stimulus
Posted: May 13, 2009 Filed under: General News Leave a comment »Its been busy for us here at Feedity. Despite the global economic downturn, we are seeing a decent growth in the usage of data delivery solutions. The New Features Poll gave us an insight into what you (our users) want. We are planning to launch some new useful features in the coming weeks. What we are also planning ahead, is an overhaul of our Feed Builder module, so that it’s more interactive and easy-to-use. We’ll post more on that in the coming weeks.
There has been a common consensus among the data liberators that government web sites should focus on RSS, not redesigns. What’s exciting to see with the new US government, is its keen interest in opening up all sorts of data and statistics to the general public. For example, the implementation instructions [pdf] for the new US Stimulus Bill require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS:
For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS) of the information so that content can be delivered via subscription.
The document is clear to state that the items in the feed can’t simply be unstructured text, but have to be reusable structured data. A proposal (and guideline) such as this, is a great effort. It should be followed by all government agencies (and even in the corporations), around the world, to keep the public informed.
Feedity Labs, and a New Features Poll
Posted: February 13, 2009 Filed under: General News, Tips & Tricks 2 Comments »In December last year, I wrote about our plans on launching a simplified social exchange for Feedity users to share ideas, concepts, and experiments with Feedity-generated RSS feeds, along with general feature requests. This month, I’m glad to announce the launch of Feedity Labs. Take a look, and share your ideas.
Planning ahead, we are also looking to hear from Feedity users about the new features we should be aiming at. Please take a few seconds to complete the poll (below), and tell us how you would like to see Feedity evolve.
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You can also checkout a lot of cool and popular RSS feeds we have hand-picked in our Featured Feeds section.
Database Maintenance – February 11
Posted: February 10, 2009 Filed under: Maintenance Leave a comment »This is to inform Feedity users that our service provider will be applying a service pack to the database server. The maintenance is scheduled for: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Pacific time.
During this time our application service will remain off-line, and all RSS feeds will be unavailable.
Our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Update: The outage has been pushed forward to 10pm-11pm Pacific Standard Time.
Website and RSS Optimization
Posted: February 8, 2009 Filed under: General News, Service Updates 1 Comment »Thanks to everyone who has been following us on Twitter, and those who have been providing us their valuable feedback.
As some of you may have noticed, we have updated the Feedity website a bit. These are small changes, but they are geared towards improving the overall usability of the application.
To start with we have a new navigation for easier access to the main functions. Under the hood, we have optimized all the media files (JavaScript, CSS, even images) so that the application loads faster and provide a more seamless experience to the end-users.
Another important change that we have made to the RSS feeds generator, is to improve the interoperability with the widest range of feed readers by implementing GUID and Atom-link as per W3C recommendations. This change will make your feeds more portable, self-contained, and easier to cache.
In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be making more of these granular optimizations to enhance the application in terms of performance and stability.
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