Get an RSS drop box for your blog at Badger
Badger allows you to create your own collape/expand RSS widget, these look similar to feed display boxes in start pages.
Basically it is an RSS to Java re-syndication badge, but the fancy thing about it is that you can collapse/expand the box.
For more re-syndication techniques see here, widgets are the go for this type of thing at the moment, but sometimes RSS to Java blends in nicely to your website or blog.
A tool like Badger could be used at the end of each post, to perhaps show Technorati inlinks, or perhaps the latest posts in your blog.
A more static tool is RSS2GIF.
I’d like to create a collapse/expand badge for a bunch of links, I could use these for my blog sidebar…neaten things up. Otherwise follow the 3spots post on java expand/collapse coding.
RSS to the side, what about including text in a badge, great idea if you want to go off in a tangent in a blog post, just expand to read the tangent, or leave collapsed to ignore it, see sidenote for an alternative.
Other similar tools are Bitty, Grazr and LinkBlox (pity this doesn’t collapse/expand).
Back to RSS…
Now imagine if you could have as many Badgers as you like on your own website, well of course you can using a Public startpage like Pageflakes.
Similar display pages are SpeedyFeed, FeedRaider, Bozpages, Njuice, Spotback, yourmini’s, and more.
Here’s my Badger, for some reason my blog has problems handling java.
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I think you mean RSS to Javascript, not Java. Or maybe I’m missing something.
Comment by Matt Terenzio — February 27, 2007 @ 5:56 pm
I assumed RSS to Java, RSS to Javascript and RSS to JSON are the same thing, is this correct?
Comment by Johnt — February 28, 2007 @ 2:40 am
Hey, thanks for the link! I’m going to guess that your template is struggling with Badger’s CSS; you do have quite a few widgets on your sidebar.
Comment by Kent Brewster — February 28, 2007 @ 3:57 am
Ahh. I see.
RSS to JSON and Javascript is the same. You are correct.
However, Javascript and Java are not the same.
Javascript most notably runs inside browsers as a client side language people put in their web pages. First developed by Netscape.
Java is a language developed by Sun used for many things including server side programming, mobile phones and desktop applications.
Comment by Matt Terenzio — March 2, 2007 @ 1:05 am