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PlanetFlash.org

Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 15:35 CET

Last week at the Flash User Group Norway meetup, Knut showed us one of his latest projects: PlanetFlash.org. So what's Planet Flash - its like MXNA, but its up™ :)

I don't visit MXNA that much simply because lately its often down or simply very slow. Anyhow, the only advantage it has over PlanetFlash is the rating (which shows the click rate), but I can live without that. Normally I live within Bloglines (the Dev:Flash and Dev:Flex folders contain the Flash bloggers I read), but sometimes its nice with something completely different.

That said, there are a few features I'd like:

  • The "Blogs" list is cool to show what is being aggregated. However, it would be nice to have a link to the blog and another to the feed. If I see a name I don't recognize I'd like to visit their site instead of stare at some XML :)
  • The link to the feed should be correct - for example my feed is at http://paulofierro.com/rss.xml. Right now it just sends you on to FeedBurner because I like their service but if that changes in the future, I'd lose the people subscribed to the FeedBurner feed. Checking the <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" /> tag in the <head> (which I believe most blogs provide) would get the right URL
  • It would be nice to able to export the list as OPML

Anyways, just nice-to-haves :) Be sure to check it out and let Knut know if what you think of it.

- paulo

Comments:

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Knut Urdalen writes:
I've fixed (1) and (2). I'll fix OPML export later.

# April 18, 2008 01:09 CET

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Knut Urdalen writes:
Thanks for the tips Paulo :) Is your RSS-feed working? To me http://paulofierro.com/rss.xml seems empty.

# April 18, 2008 20:02 CET

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Paulo Fierro replies:
Sweet! Yeah, the feed is working but its an Apache rewrite so I guess whatever it is you're using needs to be able to follow forwarding or something. Not too sure :)

# May 13, 2008 12:23 CET

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