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2008

FriendFeed Blog: Simple Update Protocol. FriendFeed infamously poll RSS feeds on the 43 services they support millions of times an hour in an effort to keep their content as real-time as possible. SUP is a new proposal by FriendFeed for a sort of “master feed” of changes to a site—instead of hitting the Flickr feed for each of their users they would just poll Flickr’s SUP feed every minute or so to find out who had uploaded a new photo, and only retrieve the RSS feed for those users.

# 28th August 2008, 12:16 pm / friendfeed, sup, feeds, atom, rss, flickr, polling

Flickr Developer Blog: API Responses as Feeds (via) Flickr API calls that return a “standard photos response” (e.g. flickr.photos.search and flickr.favorites.getList) can now output eight different feed formats as well, including Atom, RSS flavours, geoatom, geordf and KML. Error codes are returned as X-FlickrErrCode HTTP headers.

# 25th August 2008, 10:20 pm / flickr, apis, feeds, kml, atom, geordf, rss, geoatom, http

Film + Food & drink | guardian.co.uk (via) The Guardian’s publishing system supports tag intersections based on the URL; this page shows all film stories that also mention food. There’s even an RSS feed.

# 23rd August 2008, 11:18 am / intersection, feeds, guardian, rss, tags

My Universal Feed Parser was conceived as a weapon against what I considered the gravest error of XML: draconian error handling. Recently, someone asked me to implement a switch that makes it not fall back on lax parsing in the case of an XML wellformedness error. I said no, not because it would be difficult to implement, but because that defeats its entire reason for being.

Mark Pilgrim

# 5th August 2008, 10:52 pm / draconian, feeds, mark-pilgrim, python, universalfeedparser, wellformedness, xml

New feeds for Project hosting on Google Code. Finally! I’ve been wanting these ever since Google Code launched. Should make it much easier to integrate personal projects hosted on Google Code in to tumblelog style sites.

# 21st July 2008, 9:45 pm / google-code, feeds, tumblelog

2007

Updates to template_utils. James Bennett’s Django template_utils library now provides tags for consuming external RSS and Atom feeds. Combine with template fragment caching for an instant mashup written just using templates.

# 10th December 2007, 3:25 pm / james-bennett, django, templateutils, rss, atom, feeds, universalfeedparser, python