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As I mentioned previously, many people have asked me about releasing the source code for various MySpace feed services. Back when I first created the blog service, it was actually released under an open source license. That was a mistake. The code was written to work on my specific server, and most people downloading it […]
Over the past few days, many people have noticed some problems with the MySpace feeds. That’s because over the past few days I’ve been experimenting with potential ways to speed up these feeds. Some of these experiments have been less successful, some breaking the feeds altogether. But I think I’ve come up with some successful […]
A few different people have notified me about a bug in the MySpace Comments RSS Creator that caused some comments to not show up in the feed. The problem was with comments that had “Currently Online” notices in them. This was kind of difficult to track down because it only showed up when the people […]
Pei Huang helpfully pointed out that the MySpace RSS Creator wasn’t working quite right on some blogs. Apparently some blogs have the time at the top of each post and others have it at the bottom. The tool would work on both, but the post times would all be wrong when the time was on […]
Playing Here is a website I made based on the MySpace Events Feed Creator. It uses the same process to index MySpace pages for events, but instead of creating feeds by band, it creates feeds by state, city, and venue. It also has a microformatted web interface, email subscriptions, and JavaScript includes for the events. […]
What was previously the MySpace Events RSS Creator is now the MySpace Events Feed Creator. As the name change suggests, Atom feeds are now an option. Also, there are now two styles for displaying the event information: “Standard,” or what everything was before, and “Simple,” which removes all redundant information (e.g. MySpace user name is […]
By request, MySpace Events RSS Creator does exactly what the name suggests, growing (completing?) the family of MySpace RSS creators here on Make Data Make Sense. As an added bonus, the events are marked up in hCalendar format, so they can be easily imported into various calendar applications. Please point out any problems or potential […]
Feed2Podcast is a neat service that takes RSS feeds, runs them through a text-to-speech engine, and produces podcasts. This service is now combined with the MySpace RSS Creator here on Make Data Make Sense to produce podcasts of MySpace blogs. Standard data access formats (even RSS) allow for this kind of mixing of services. MySpace […]