FeedoStyle is a new service that allows people to pull any RSS feed into a stylized module on a web page. The idea is to allow blog and other website publishers to include new content directly onto their site in a very easy way.
The service is easy to set up and does not require the creation of a user account. The style and size of the module/widget is customizable – I’ve included one below with the memeorandum feed.
They offer a number of pre-defined feeds and, if you choose your own content, it will attempt to autodiscover the feeds for you. I’d like to see it offer the ability to include multiple feeds in a module, though, instead of having to create a separate module for each feed. Ideally, I’d like to add any number of feeds and select the number of items/posts included from each feed source.
FeedoStyle is also providing tools to use it on Ajax desktops/home pages like Netvibes and Pageflakes. While this grows the audience for their product, I don’t think many people will go to the trouble of integrating FeedoStyle into their online home pages since those tools are already included with the services.
Update: I had to remove the FeedoStyle script above and replace it with a static screenshot. It was causing performance issues.
Update: Adam Green points me to Grazr, which also allows OPML files (multiple feeds). And FeedDigest is a popular service which I will be reviewing once they’ve finished their next version. Still others are mentioned in the comments.
Are we to assume if we use it that the script will cause us performance issues also ?
What exactly did it do to your site/blog ?
Bummer, a mate of mine showed me his new startup last night that was doing much the same thing.
Arrington … Check yo damn e-mail, foo!!
Typical web2.0: great idea, poor execution (especially under heavy load)
I prefer Google Reader Sharing because I can accumulate multiple feeds and share them on my blog.
With that being said, I like the easy look-and-feel customization and display options. And the creation of homepage widgets for netvibes and pageflakes doesn’t hurt either.
It does look like a good idea but it has its fair share of issues…
The horizontal banner that it creates does not seem to work… Gives an error on line 110.
It seems to have tons of repeats too. See:
ISS Crew Return Safely – Live Punjab
ISS Crew Return Safely – Live Punjab
ISS Crew Return Safely – Live Punjab
ISS Crew Return Safely – Live Punjab
New Photos of Mars Show Craters, Gullies – ABC News
New Photos of Mars Show Craters, Gullies – ABC News
New Photos of Mars Show Craters, Gullies – ABC News
New Photos of Mars Show Craters, Gullies – ABC News
That is a bit annoying…
I do like http://www.techcrunch.com though. You seem to find all of the latest stuff…
sam
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Was it causing performance issues with you or couldnt feedostyle handle the traffic?
The problem that led to me removing the script: the page load was hanging on their server. It’s in beta so I am certainly not judging them. I like the service.
I use http://www.feeddigest.com for some months now.Works fine, has a lot of features.
Perhaps not as “fashion” and 2.0 as this.
But definitively better…
“I like the service?
Do you mean you like the idea? Who likews a service that doesn’t work?
“… the ability to … add any number of feeds and select the number of items/posts included from each feed source.”
FeedDigest.com has been around for a while and has these features.
Three short remarks:
1. feedostyle has serious performance issues. Over the last 7 days, it was down more than 3 days. Over the last month, it was down half of the time.
2 The idea is very old. Sites like http://www.feedonsite.com and others like rssdigest have been delivering this service for a long time now, with great performance.
3. when a feed is badly formed, the whole thing collapses
Concluding: old idea, bad execution.
This is not exctly a new thing but you have done a good thing for introducing us FeedoStyle. This was many readers like me have got to know about it. FeedoStyle is still in its beta version and that is why it is natural that some problems will occur. HOwever, if they can oevrcome the problems then it has a good prospect.
Thanks for the FeedDigest support folks. We’ve spoken to Michael in the past and asked him not to profile us until we launch our next version. We’ve been very focused on scalability and being fast, and now serve between two and three million digests per day, but as a small company this comes at the price that we have to grow slowly and steadily.
We’re happy to see tools like Feedostyle enter the fray, as there’s always a requirement for different levels in the market (we’re not greedy!)
Is this not the same as Feedburners bit of JavaScript for displaying feeds on web pages?
It suffers from the same performance issues of holding up the display of a page till it fetches the feed from feedburner and the JavaScript can execute.
Performance issues, you don’t say? Good thing it’s only in beta.
This is great, I have been asking for something like this all over the net. They should build a library of shareable templates. They also need to allow images to be displayed. They could do this by linking to a RSS altering service like Feed43 where you can add an image tag when recreating a RSS feed.
Echoing what others said above, the problem with services like this is scaling. Big thumbs down on relying on third parties to serve content on the page.
Yep, old idea…
http://www.feeddigest.com/
http://www.howd...ices/feedsweep/
http://www.rss2html.com/
http://www.feedonsite.com/
http://jade.mcl...icopa.edu/feed/
http://www.rss-...javascript.com/
http://www.feedroll.com
But, they have added some nice UI flourishes and options for displaying feeds in different ways.
EVeybody and their brother has a startup doing something with RSS today. Nothing new here.
I just install it here. It works fine for me.
Our ajax website/blog management system already has this built in. Its such a simple feature to implement that I am suprised an entire service is based on it. Am I missing something?
I was looking for something like FeedoStyle…but it didn’t work out like I’d hoped. It worked great in Firefox and froze like a popsicle in IE.
I’ve been using FeedDigest for a couple of months and find it works very well.
As for the scrolling feature looks like some scripts[url=http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/rsspausescroller/index.htm
]here [/url] might do the trick.
RapidFeeds MySite Launched in January this year does the same thing.
It also allows any one to add a Feed to their website by just clicking an +MySite button similar to +MyYahoo.
…and the +MySite button is also visible on the content panel of the re-syndicated feed which helps to spread the source feed viraly.
I like the customization options on this one. Perhaps not as advanced in terms of feed manipulation, but the module appearance is great. Here’s a quick tip on using Google Reader’s features with an app like Feedo Style to make a “related content” module:
http://thegoogl...ent-module.html
By Google search, I came to this post. How, is FeedoStyle doing now?
We have taken ownership and have fixed many useability and performance issues (finally
).
I hope you will revisit this tool and find exciting uses.