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RSSmeme Under Maintenance; API Coming Soon

May 9, 2008 – 11:51 am

RSSmeme is undergoing some maintenance (apologies for any errors that crop up from time to time).  I am currently gutting everything from the views to abstract things much more.  The end result is you will soon be able to see any page from RSSmeme in a different context.
To the untrained eye everything will look the [...]

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RSSmeme In Everyone’s Language (for real this time)

April 28, 2008 – 4:36 pm

My last post, RSSmeme In Your Language, was a bit misleading.  I had a small problem sending unicode to Google to detect languages.  Any language that could not be encoded from unicode to ASCII was not being detected.  This is a big deal because that includes languages like Chinese; China accounts for more page visits [...]

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RSSmeme In Your Language

April 23, 2008 – 8:52 pm

The number 1 feature request by far has been for me to add language filters to RSSmeme.  Detecting language is no easy feat.  I didn’t want to half ass this feature; it needed to be solid and elegant.  So I waited, and waited, and waited.  And then, yesterday, Google announced their REST Language API!  Finally [...]

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Who Is Using Google Apps? FriendFeed API Analysis

April 21, 2008 – 7:03 pm

Who is using Google Apps for their email?  FriendFeedStats is now a pretty large database of users so I wrote a quick script using the FriendFeed API to compile a list of Google Apps users by checking the MX records for everyone’s blog.
Some heavy hitters make the list including FriendFeed, Mashable, Lifehacker, Perez Hilton, kwiry, [...]

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RSSmeme + FriendFeed = Personalized RSSmeme

April 18, 2008 – 2:38 pm

A big problem in the field of link aggregation is tailoring the results to an individual user.  RSSmeme doesn’t have an account system.  You don’t need to make an account to get involved; you just share and I hope it stays that way forever.  How then can we make a customized view for individual users?
I [...]

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