Core Data

New "Top Feeds" Service Aggregates Data From Top Feeds In Each Category

Antone Roundy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:54:00 -0600

I just launched a new service called "Top Feeds" that generates RSS feeds from the content of the top feeds in each category on the site. Go to any category on chordata.info and click the subscription button near the upper-right corner of the page to subscribe. As the top feeds in a category change, you'll automatically get content from the best available sources.

While the exact formula I use to pick the top feeds in each category is confidential and subject to change, I can tell three thin...

Member Profiles Added To RSS/Atom Feed Directory

Antone Roundy — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:31:00 -0700

I've just finished a mini-makeover of Chordata, adding member profiles and a few design tweaks.

In your profile, you can enter a link to your homepage and a "bio" (or whatever you want to say to people), and if you choose, you can display a list of RSS and Atom feeds you've submitted, and a list of the feeds you've rated. The list is of course sorted with the highest rated feeds first, so it acts sort of like a "recommended feeds". You can individually mark any feed or rating "private" to prev...

Chordata Linkback Service pricing reduced

Antone Roundy — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:18:00 -0600

We've reduced the price of our "Linkback" service, which links Chordata's feed directory to your website as if you had your own directory. The service replaces the default "Jawfish" subscribe links that are displayed in the feed pages with links that point back to your site for visitors that come to Chordata from your site.

The new pricing is as follows:

1 Month: $11.97 (formerly $30)
1 Year: $119.97 (formerly $300)

Paging through categories, nofollow for lame feeds

Antone Roundy — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:23:00 -0700

I've implemented two changes to the category pages on Chordata: paging and nofollow links for low rated feeds.

Yesterday I added paging so that only 20 feeds show at a time. This will result in faster load times and less probability of really long text in one cell of the table making the whole page look out of whack. On some of the more popular categories, this is a big improvement.

Today as I was approving feeds (and rejecting some), it occurred to me that sometimes I'll approve a somewhat dub...

Do you feel the love, Ice Rocket? No? I didn't think so.

Antone Roundy — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:19:00 -0700

I recently upgraded my feed reviewing code and got caught up on approving new submissions. Then I started reviewing previously deferred submissions, and felt anew the pain that Ice Rocket (or some of their customers--I'm not certain who's to blame) has caused me. I must have rejected a couple hundred feeds about digital printing, all submitted to the "Business" category. Add to that perhaps thirty car parts and motorcycle feeds with titles that didn't match their content. At least those were ...

Category sorting update

Antone Roundy — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:25:00 -0700

One thing about Chordata has been subconsciously bugging me for a while, and today I recognized and fixed it: the sort order in the category pages. The problem was that all rated feeds were appearing before all unrated feeds. That's great for the highest rated feeds, which appear first, but I wanted the low rated...okay, I'll say it--crappy feeds to sort of fall off the bottom. So today, I updated the sort order. Now, any feed whose average rating is less than 2.1 falls to its proper place at...

Welcome to Core Data

Antone Roundy — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:24:00 -0700

I suppose an RSS and Atom feed directory really isn't complete without its own weblog and feed, so here it is. I'll announce site news here, and perhaps comment on RSS and Atom from time to time, though Info Bite is more likely to see those entries. And stay tuned for an occasional peek into the future of Chordata. I've got some interesting plans...

Okay, I'll spill the beans on one of them right now. In a few months (sorry, I've got a number of other higher priorities), Chordata will launch a...