Fedafi - Wordpress Plugin for RSS

Okay after a great deal of sweat (equity) we’ve released the new version of Fedafi. With a whole new bunch of features.

As well as being able to create, manage, market and track RSS feeds Fedafi now just just as good a job with feeds created elsewhere.

You can now style and track your blogs RSS feed right on your own site, no need to use someone else’s domain name. Just enter your feed URL and you’ll get it styled, with full instructions to all visitors on how they can use the feed, including one click subscribe buttons for Pageflakes, Netvibes, My Yahoo, My Google, Windows Live and Excite Mix.

The cool stuff doesn’t stop there. As well as tracking subscribers to your blog feed it will also track clicks on every outbound link. This means you can see which articles, headlines and links are popular. Giving you the metrics to fine tune your blogging content.

Take a look at a Wordpress blog feed thats been Fedafi’d here.

For those who don’t want to, or don’t have a website to install Fedafi on we have released a hosted version. You can use a sub-domain of a generic RSS domain name that we supply or use your own domain name at no extra cost.

All in all Fedafi puts control of your RSS back in your hands.

We have just launched a video blog at http://vlog.fedafi.com

The vlog will cover news about Fedafi, input from Fedafi users and general news and events happening in the RSS and Podcasting world.

You can subscribe through iTunes here

At present you can watch me talking about the birth of Fedafi and a short vidoe from a Fedafi user.

Topshop, UK high street fashion outlet have just launched their first podcast - cool stuff!

This is a ‘down the line’ marketing use and great to see their extension into podcasting, issue 1 is very TV advertising influenced but getting some good reviews over at iTunes:

Great idea…fab idea…these podcast things are fab

However it seems their approach isn’t perfect yet, biggest complaints seem to be:

• Too fast
• No prices

The too fast complaint is however qualified with ‘I had to watch it a few times’ - I guess Topshop won’t complain about that too much

Go straight to the itunes feed here.

Okay so you’ve got a podcast feed, now you need to tell the world and iTunes is a good place to start.

First thing to get on with is getting a .mac account, without it you can’t add a podcast to iTunes. However, you can do this during the add process, be aware you’ll need a credit card handy as iTunes requires one to create an account.

Let’s get started. First thing to do is fire up iTunes and hit the ‘Music Store’ link in the left panel, you’ll now see a menu like this:

Click the ‘Podcasts’ link and you’ll now see this:

Hit the ‘Submit Podcast’ link. Now you’ll see this screen which asks for the URL of your podcast feed.

Add in your URL and hit ‘Continue’

NOTE: At this point you’ll be asked for your .mac account details and given the chance to create one if you don’t have one.

You’ll be given the chance to view your podcast details and then you are done. Apple will send you a few emails, review your podcast feed and as long as the content meets their specification you’ll be added and then you’ll see your feed in iTunes, like this:

You can check out our documentation podcast feed in itunes by clicking here.