tag:,2008:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4739- 2008-12-03T22:32:52Z Comments for Feedburner releases API into the wild Movable Type 4.23-en tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4739 2006-02-09T08:42:25Z 2007-12-16T23:15:58Z Feedburner releases API into the wild Feedburner, inaugural winner of the R/WW Best Web LittleCo award in 2004 (current holder is 37Signals) has just released the final stage of their FeedFlare rollout. FeedFlare is a set of web services plug-ins. I wrote about it in December when they released stage 1 and at the time I called it "interactive RSS". In... Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Feedburner, inaugural winner of the R/WW Best Web LittleCo award in 2004 (current holder is 37Signals) has just released the final stage of their FeedFlare rollout. FeedFlare is a set of web services plug-ins. I wrote about it in December when they released stage 1 and at the time I called it "interactive RSS".

In a nutshell, FeedFlare enables publishers to add a bit of 'social context' to their feed, with things like 'Email this', Technorati data, del.icio.us tags and more.

With the release of the API, Feedburner has invited external developers to create any third party plug-in to the Feedburner system. As they put it:

"The really big idea, however, was always the notion of providing a universal framework/API to enable any third-party web service to integrate with a publisher's content, without concern over what content management system the publisher is using."

Feedburner has come up with 101 ideas for external developers. The top 5 I want to see developed are (in no particular order):

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One thing I'd like to see added to the FeedFlare program is a central place where developers can submit their web services. I can see myself adding a number of these services to my feed and site, especially if they're one of the above 5.

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4739-comment:36929 Comment from Peter Cooper on 2006-02-10 Peter Cooper http://www.petercooper.co.uk/ Can you see this potentially going a little bit nuts? That is, someone who thinks all these tools are cool ending up using 10 different pieces of flare on their feeds and bulking it all up?

People who have ads in their feeds already force me to reconsider, and with a giant pile of buttons it adds another reason for users to unsubscribe.

I may be proven wrong, but if I want to add something to Digg or del.icio.us, I'll already be on the actual page the feed item is pointing to, not in the feed.

I think the Flare is great for metadata, such as seeing how popular it is, or who linked to it, etc.. but not for the 'action' stuff.

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