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Using Feedburner Awareness API
Feedburner’s Feed Awareness API (read this article at Burning Questions also), allows developers to integrate feed stats to their applications. It gets even better if the feed you are using is a Feedburner “PRO” account. Then you can have views and clicks per item.
Here (look down the page, where this blog is syndicated) is a small example of using the API together with MagpieRSS from PHP. Notice the “views” and “clicks”? They are read using the Awareness API.
The code for the example can be downloaded here: fb_awareness_api_demo.phps.
UPDATE 2005-10-27: I put together a page with all my FeedBurner related code
The “Personal Mall” Concept
Yesterday I set up Things I Bought, which is what I call a “personal mall”. A personal mall is a personal website presenting items the owner (or blogger) actually bought and used. Those things may be diverse in a way: books, gadgets, t-shirts, you name it. On the other hand, they are the items bought by a certain person, which means that people of similar interests may possibly like them too.
You could say that this is not something new, sites like gizmodo exist for a while. But the editors of such sites rarely BUY the things they review. This is why they may review things that cost $20.000 -do not expect to see anything like this at Things I Bought!
Opening an account at Commission Junction, Amazon and other on-line shops with affiliate programs is easy (plus you get the commision when you buy things!), then open an account at Blogger, and your private mall is up and running!
I expect to see more bloggers opening “personal malls”.
Remember you read it here first! 
- 2005-06-16 21:06
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FeedBurner – Awareness API
I have a couple of cool uses in mind…
Alex Bosworth’s Weblog: Ajax Mistakes
Worth reading: Ajax Mistakes.
Most of it comes down to “respect your users’ habits”, which is a great point by itself, but Alex goes on and points out some other usability issues too.
- 2005-06-16 13:06
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Lotus Notes 6.5.4 on Linux
I’m so happy! I finaly found a way to run Lotus Notes 6.5.4 on Linux!
Originally, I tried VMWare, which worked, but it slowed down my laptop. I actually had to run 2 operating systems simultaneously, I had to set up samba so that the hosted WinXP environment where I ran Notes could se my Linux filesystem and get arround some networking problems due to our complex network at work. It worked for a couple of days, but this was clearly not a solution.
Yesterday, I upgraded to Fedora Core 4, and I decided to give CodeWeavers CrossOver Office a try.
Oh, my God! I just started the Lotus 6.5.4 installation, jusl like I would do from windows. Then I set up my account details, replicated and… loiva!!! Speed is comperable to a native Windows installation.
I guess wine will soon be able to do the same thing, probably it already does with some tweeking. But I do not care for $39.95 that CrossOver Office costs.
Click to enlarge screenshot:
MD5 is dead
As shown in MD5 Collisions, it is (relatively) easy to construct 2 documents that have the same MD5 hash. Which means, that you should not trust MD5 as a digital signature.
- 2005-06-15 11:06
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firefox enhancements
Here are two firefox enhancements I found lately.
- hCalendar greasemonkey script, allows you to add hCalendar events in any textarea (!!!) [nice demo on waht you can do with greasemonkey too.]
- del.icio.us extension, it allow you to easily add a page to your del.icio.us bookmarks.
- 2005-06-13 17:06
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del.icio.us + filetypes
Niall Kennedy notes that del.icio.us del.icio.us now allows users to browse tags by media types.
I guess this makes sense now that podcasting is so hot. It looks like a lot of people distribute “rich media” using RSS.
Nice.
- 2005-06-13 12:06
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