Sep. 13, 2010
A year ago, FeedMagnet was just a concept with a lot of potential, but nothing to show for it. We've come a long way since then, and we thought we should mark the moment by bringing everyone up to speed on the whirlwind that has been this past year for us.
Jun. 29, 2010
Sometimes where someone is can be just as important as what they are doing or saying. Many of our social media sources, including Flickr and Twitter, provide geodata (latitude and longitude) for updates, letting you know where the photo or tweet was recorded. With our latest updates, FeedMagnet now knows what to do with that data.
In addition to tracking check-ins from Gowalla and Foursquare, we're storing geodata given to us from Flickr, Twitter, and other sources. Its up to you how the location information gets displayed. It can be displayed in text form (e.g. "in Austin, TX") or by plotting updates on a map.
Jun. 15, 2010
One of the benefits of software-as-a-service—in addition to not having to maintain servers and continually purchase upgrades—is the continual rollout of new features. For FeedMagnet, many of those new features come in the form of new content sources, and our two new ones are the fun, location-based, Gowalla and Foursquare.
Jun. 7, 2010
You've been able to pull blogs into FeedMagnet since the beginning—really anything that has an RSS feed can be pulled in. The trouble with Tumblr is that it is often much more than blog content. In addition to several text update formats, Tumblr lets you post photo, video, and audio updates.
Our latest integration lets you add Tumblr sources natively rather than through RSS—which means we recognize all of those different Tumblr sources and handle them appropriately. The end result is a better looking FeedMagnet output when Tumblr is involved.
May. 11, 2010
Just a week after Facebook launched their new Graph API, we released support for Facebook as a FeedMagnet content source. You can now run searches across all public posts in Facebook or pull in all of the public posts from a specific user or group of users - just like you could already with Twitter and Flickr.