“Net Pulse News”– Videos, News, Etc. Based On Hot Search Trends
I’ve just posted a new page on Chordata called “Net Pulse News“. It pulls the hottest search trends from Google Trends, and displays news, blog and video search results based on those keywords. Google...
View ArticleMagpie vs. CaRP: Which PHP RSS Script is Better?
Magpie and CaRP are two popular RSS parser scripts, both written in PHP, but which is better? I did a quick comparison, and this is what I came up with. Yes, I am the creator of CaRP, so read carefully...
View ArticleDisplaying Twitter Status In My Blog
Twitter has a widget that you can use to display your latest update in your blog sidebar or elsewhere on your website. But it’s…well, not perfect. I found that it was bigger than necessary for the text...
View ArticleCaRP Evolution Gets Podcast and Sorting Plugins
I’ve released two new plugins for CaRP Evolution this week: One for podcasts and one for sorting. The podcast plugin uses the 1 Pixel Out Audio Player (which is a WordPress plugin, but can be used...
View ArticleCaRP/WP for WordPress Adds RSS Widget Support
I just uploaded version 2.0 of CaRP/WP (an RSS plugin for WordPress) to my server. CaRP/WP works with CaRP to display RSS feed content, including Amazon.com affiliate feeds and YouTube videos, in the...
View ArticleLinContEx.com was going to be “BlogRush done right”…
A little over a year and a half ago, when John Reese announced his BlogRush service, I thought “oh, c**p,” (that word isn’t “CaRP” :-) “one of the big boys beat me to my idea.” At the time, I’d begun...
View ArticleCan Google Reader Woo Me Away From NetNewsWire?
When Google Reader debuted, there was no question — it was as bad as all the other web-based feed readers. No way was I going to dump NetNewWire for it. A few days ago, somebody (someone I follow on...
View ArticleGoodbye Google Reader, Goodbye NetNewsWire!
Yesterday, I decided it was high time to scratch an old itch, so I built myself an RSS feed reader. It uses CaRP Evolution’s MySQL plugin to store parsed RSS feed items in a database. I think this is...
View ArticleTweeting From My RSS Feed Reader
I just sent an updated version of Lobster – my RSS feed reader to all CaRP users. This revision adds Twitter support — tweet directly from your feed reader. Lobster automatically generates tweet text...
View ArticleHow to Embed One XML Format in Another
I’ve got an idea I’d like to suggest, but don’t feel inclined to champion right now. So I post it here and either come back to it later, or let someone else run with it. First, a little background....
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