{"id":194,"date":"2009-02-27T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2009-02-27T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T03:26:00","slug":"rss-feeds-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/rss-feeds-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS feeds on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve played with a number of Facebook applications that claim to let you import RSS feeds into Facebook &#8211; and then mysteriously fail to update them.  RSS feeds that don&#8217;t update are not overly useful.<\/p>\n<p>I finally concluded that if we wanted to import our library blogs into our (currently in demo) library Facebook page, we&#8217;d have to use Friendfeed instead.  Only when I actually tried this out, it turns out that the Friendfeed application doesn&#8217;t work on pages.<\/p>\n<p>So I went trawling through Facebook&#8217;s RSS applications again and (perhaps because this was a couple of months since I last tried) found one that seems to work:  <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.new.facebook.com\/rss-connect\">RSS-Connect<\/a>(*).  It looks clean, the display is reasonably customisable, and it works smoothly and intuitively to open\/close items when clicked and take you through to the original item on demand.  And most importantly, it really does update automatically &#8211; you even get to choose how often you want it to check for updates.<\/p>\n<p>(*) There must be a way to get a link that shows you information about the app before forcing you to add it, but Facebook isn&#8217;t intuitive to me and I haven&#8217;t found it yet.<\/p>\n<p><b>ETA 22\/5\/09<\/b> I can&#8217;t recommend RSS-Connect, aka Social RSS, any more as it frequently loads either very slowly or (more often) not at all.  This leaves me without a working RSS application again.  Anyone know of anything, or want to create one?<\/p>\n<p><b>ETA 17\/7\/09<\/b> RSS-Connect aka Social RSS is back in my good books with some caveats; see comments for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve played with a number of Facebook applications that claim to let you import RSS feeds into Facebook &#8211; and then mysteriously fail to update them. RSS feeds that don&#8217;t update are not overly useful. I finally concluded that if we wanted to import our library blogs into our (currently in demo) library Facebook page, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[173,121,130,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}