Posted October 6th, 2008 by andrew
Hey Everybody,
I didn’t get around to posting last week as I ran into some other things that tied me up for most of the week. On Friday, I started working on an easy way to add feeds from your favorite social networks. I just finished off the first 10 and thought I’d go ahead and make them public so you can check it out and let me know what you think.
Now, when you’re adding feeds to your projects, you have options. You can enter the whole feed URL into the Blog URL input box and add it…OR…you can just enter your social network’s username, and FeedBite will get your feed for you! That means instead of having to log on to your network, find your RSS page, click it, copy your URL and paste it in FeedBite, you can just put your username in the appropriate field, click add…and IT’S DONE! Simple as that!
Some of the things I will be working on next are being able to have pictures imported with your feeds, posting your own post to your FeedBite feed, adding comments to your posts, and also having a friends network system so you can follow your friend’s feed activity!
Leave comments and let me know if you have any other ideas that you think would work out well on the site.
Andrew
Posted September 19th, 2008 by andrew
Hey everybody,
Just giving you a little update of a couple features added today.
First, I added a FeedBite Title input field for you to fill out when editing your profile. This title will be used on your public page instead of your username being posted. It allows you to be more specific about what your public feeds are related to.
Then I did several things to make the sign up and activation process a little easier. Now when you sign up, in the email you receive, there is a link to activate your account automagically, or if you are of the ‘old-school’ type, you can go through the manual process.
Next week, I’ll look at getting a Friends network added to the site so you can follow your friends feeds as well!
Have a good weekend!
Andrew
Posted September 18th, 2008 by andrew
I’ve been working on the site for most of the day today and I got some cool features working. Now, when you are logged in, the members’ top menu navigation will remain on the top of the page no matter where you go on the site.
Also, users can now upload a picture without having to crop it to fit our size restraints, I wrote a little script that will take your picture, no matter what size it is, and I create a 50×50 thumbnail out of it, so you don’t have to mess around with things.
I also got all of the buttons and links that you can find working!
This afternoon, I installed this WordPress blog so I can keep you guys up to date on a regular basis, then I tackled a cool little feature in the member’ top menu nav. Now, you can click the View Public Page in the nav whenever you are logged in, from wherever you want on the site, and it will automatically bring you to YOUR page, providing you with another ‘easy-access’ button to get to the page you want, when you want!
Tomorrow, I’ll be adding a feature that provides each user with the ability to enter their own Feedbite Title to be displayed on their public page, instead of their username being shown. I’ll also be cleaning up some of the registration process to make things easier for people to sign up.
Anywho, gotta run…almost 5!
Until next time,
Andrew
PS - let me know any features you would like to see added and we can talk about it.
Posted September 18th, 2008 by admin
FeedBite is designed to allow you to keep up with current news and events from friends, family or just people you are fans of.
What sets FeedBite apart is that not only can you create Publicly accessible pages but you can also display your feeds on any other website using our PHP or JavaScript includes. That means you can keep some feeds private to display on your websites only and others can be public to be displayed at FeedBite!
We have lots planned for FeedBite and we always intend to keep it FREE… so please help us out by spreading the love and telling others about this great service.
Sign Up for your own FeedBite account now and get started sharing your favorite RSS Feeds with the World!
Make sure to check out our blog at http://www.feedbite.com/blog to keep up with our latest plans and share with us what you would like to see added.
