New Beta Version Available For Testing
Monday, November 27th, 2006Rather than do the trendy, Web 2.0 thing and make FeedBlendr perpertually beta, I’m going to have a limited-time version up at http://beta.feedblendr.com to test out a new version of the core engine that I’ve been working on over the past few months. This is live right now, so please check it out. New features you may (or may not) notice are:
- Updated funky design (thanks again Ray Hernandez!)
- Supports podcasts/video blogs now!
- Fancy online reader for viewing the contents of your blend, including embedded audio/video
- Mobile reader – allows you to view a blend in a lightweight format specially designed for phones/PDAs etc.
- JavaScript “export” to allow you to drop the contents of a blend into your own page and style it to suit your layout using simple CSS.
- Supports custom XML-extensions (like MediaRSS, GeoRSS etc) on the specific entries sourced from feeds which contained them
- Default output format is now Atom
- Much-improved OPML/bulk feed blending operations
- Fancy AJAX feed checking that actually works
- Much better caching/crawling engine (hopefully) to improve response times and server performance
- Whiz-bang REST/OPML/XML-based API that will allow developers to build some cool stuff with Blendr as part of it (if you’re into that sort of thing)
I’d really love it if people could try out some blends on the beta version, and let me know how it goes. Specifically I want to know about any problems you have, but feel free to lavish me with praise as well 🙂 No need to tell me that the “about”, “blog”, “tips” and “contact” links don’t work either – they will when it goes live!
WARNING: Blends created on beta.feedblendr.com will NOT be transferred over to the live version once the beta phase is complete (within a few weeks), so please only use it for testing!