myFeedz Development Blog

Every now and then you find yourself exploring a specific subject. Whether it is related to researching for a new project or just killing some time reading on a favorite topic, myFeedz has a feature called connections that helps you wander around the articles in our system.

However, it’s not as visually appealing as the flash mashup we saw over at the PhilterBlog, the myFeedz Tag Viewer. Phil writes about all things Flash, Flex and, recently, Apollo. In one of his recent experiments, he used the myFeedz API to build a very eye catching visualization of myFeedz’ connections, by allowing users to drill down on related tags while keeping the browse history in sight. It also has nice features like saving tags to favorites for later reading and automatic scrolling of tags and articles to fit all that info on the screen.

Efforts like Phil’s prompt us to improve the API’s performance and encourage us to work on new features for myFeedz. His sample stirred a lot of discussion over here, so make sure you check it out!

Renaun Erickson has created a mashup using the myFeedz API and Ely Greenfield’s FlexBook component. Check it out! It’s an interesting proof of concept, although it cannot compete with the Fresh sample application for the newly-released Apollo. But then again, Fresh is an RSS reader, while myFeedz is an RSS leafer.