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.

Although Teaching Hacks first posted this in Jan of this year it really is worth a look. They have put together a 32 page PDF that is great run through of RSS and how it can be used.

Download here

Along with the Lite version (free) released today we have also made a few changes/bug fixes, the main changes are:

• License keys can now be updated on the config page
• The tools section now allows for the creation of chicklets
• The header now shows license type
• Config update now stops if admin password not present

Today we’ve launched a Lite version of Stream Distribution for FREE.

The lite version comes with a few restrictions but hey what do you expect for free

• It can be used for your internal business purposes only, in other words you can’t create feeds for other people whether you charge for them or not.
• You are limited to creating/managing just one feed
• You are limited to just one Lite license per legal entity (person/business)
• You provide valid personal/contact details at time of order

Check out the full details here and now there’s no excuse for not trying it.

It was good to see an RSS evangelist is alive and kicking in the education system here in Scotland. Ewan McIntosh posted today:

I took over the project last year, creating the public website and getting a 1000% growth in the number of ‘community members’. I was frustrated at not being able to introduce half the new technologies I had wanted to - notably RSS feeds on Early Years, Primary Education, ICT… - but am determined that when SSDN does bring these technologies along modern linguists will be the first ones using them

Keep up the good work Ewan!