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Friday, 16th February 2007

Badge Any RSS Feed With Yahoo! Pipes. Smart hack from Kent Brewster. Uses Yahoo! Pipes’ JSON output plus a few lines of JavaScript to create a badge from any RSS feed.

# 8:21 am / badger, pipes, yahoo, json, rss, kentbrewster

The Zimki Plan. Zimki is a hosted JavaScript application server by Fotango. The idea is to open source it, then build a component so developers can seamlessly switch to hosting on Fotango’s server farm if they need to handle a spike in traffic.

# 3:50 pm / zimki, fotango, utilitycomputing, javascript