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Connect Your Feed With Google Buzz

Hey I guess you already know about BUZZ, the new google service.

This time we acted pretty fast and rolled a new feature to make it easy for you to connect your feed with google buzz, yes, it’s neat and simple, check our silde show tutorial below on how to do this.

Some notes on why to use Feedoor

  • You have a feed and want to connect with your Buzz account, the super easy way.
  • Merge many feeds and add all to your Buzz at once, don’t repeat the process :)
  • Since Feedoor supports both real-time protocols RSScloud and Pubsubhubbub you can get your feed instantly updated in your buzz time line no matter what protocol it’s using, this also includes all blogs hosted on wordpress.com
  • Since we convert any Feed to a real time feed with the help of superfeedr “real time feed parsing service” you can get your feed posts in your buzz time line almost instantly, this is really good if your feed does’t support any real time protocol.

And Now for the slide show “How to connect your feed with google BUZZ”

Feedoor Enables Realtime Feed to Any Website or Blog

We are happy to announce that Feedoor is now fully supporting real-time by implementing both real-time protocols, RssCloud and Pubsubhubbub.

Thanks to Superfeedr the realtime feed parsing service which made hard things easy, we could implement “real time” in “no time” :)

Now, and as a member of Feedoor, you can enable real-time for any feed in your account, even if that feed does not have a real-time protocol.

How Real-time “really” works?

Real-Time is “push” not “poll”, meaning, in order to make your feed “Real-Time” it has to push new posts. Instead of polling your feed every “x” minutes to check for new posts/data, Real-time aware clients and applications will subscribe to your feed and wait contents to be pushed to them when ever your feed has a new post.

How Feedoor’s Real-time Works?

If you’re managing a feed with Feedoor and that feed is already implementing RssCloud or PubSubHubBub protocol then Feedoor waits for a notification to be pushed from your original feed when it has a new content, once it’s notified, feedoor goes on and notifies back those who subscribed to your feed and pings another 17 well known feed services.

But what if your feed doesn’t implement RssCloud or Pubsubhubbub?

In this case your feed will not be able to notify Feedoor of new contents, so we need to poll your feed frequently and check for new posts, when Feedoor detects a new post it will ping feed services and real-time clients/applications. Your feed still can be converted to “near” real-time even if doesn’t implement a real-time protocols.

When the web started to go main stream back in the 1990s, there was a lot of buzz about real-time, but that vision was not accomplished until recently. Today Feedoor joins the real-time club and enables that vision to any website and blog.

Stay tuned for more great features to empower your feed.

Feedoor is Officially on the CLOUDs

Yes it’s true, it’s about the time to move to a better host and continue our plans to expand feedoor services so we have moved completely to Rackspace Cloud Hosting! A big thanks for Rackspace and their fantastical support.

What’s Next?

We will monitor Feedoor for a week or two and then start the new release of Feedoor new version with a set of new features, so stay tuned :)

Door Number 3 is Out

This is not a new version, it’s just a new added features to the filtering options.

Upon reading “Feedoor: I’m Going to Wait for Door Number 3″ Cyndy’s review about Feedoor on profy we started on updating Feedoor filtering tools and I’m glad that door number 3 is out = No more waiting ;)

With the new options you can filter posts according to specific keywords in Title, Description and author tags

You can add unlimited filtering rules for each feed, so you are not restricted to one filter

The new Filters use regex, so you can “block or show” posts that met “any or all” of the following options if it “contains or doesn’t contain” some keyword.

Even better, the new filtering system built with an instant update in mind, meaning, if you feel these filtering options lack some thing just let us know what you want exactly to be filtered and we will add it for you immediately.

Now while we were working on the Filtering feature, we came across a great service for filtering feeds called “AideRSS” and because of their great API we could add a new feature for filtering posts according to AideRSS PostRank system too.

Note: Since Feedoor has a mixing feature “mix many feeds in one” we thought it would be better to add the filtering options and AideRSS PostRank feature for each feed separately.

Feedoor Version 2.0

We are happy to announce the release of the second version of feedoor, it’s the real delivery of Feedoor.

The second version has many new features for both users and developers, we will continue adding new features to feedoor but now we will concentrate on enriching the current version with applications built on top of Feedoor API and developers platform, we will add new themes, widgets and static/dynamic doors, so if you’re a developer who want to contribute in this process we will be more than happy to work with you, you can also find documents in our Developers page

For our loyal members we added many tools

New Theme System:

Members will notice the new enhanced Feed themes, the new themes system is very fixable and dynamic, you can add widgets, doors, edit stylesheet or even write your own theme

New Publishing Tools:

Spreading the word about your feed is the most important thing, putting this in mind, we developed new tools to help you doing that, such as adding new checklists and buttons, developing a banner rotator for your posts, adding new branding feature where you can brand your feed with your own domain name

Integration Tools

A new feature added to allow Feedoor members to interact with their Feedburner account, you can merege your Feedburner feeds into a Feedoor feed and also you can burn your Feedoor feed to your Feedburner account, all with a click of a button.

We will talk about each service later with more details but for now we are waiting your feedbacks, comments or anything you want to share us, we also opened a new Getsatisfaction.com channel you can use that page to submit any question, comment, feedback and we will be more than happy to answer you :)