I have gotten a few comments on the speed of some of the effects on vine, so I’ve updated some of the JavaScript so that some of the effects load a little fast. These effects includes:

• Increased hover effects on article lists and decreased the amount moved.
• Increased pop-up speed of Digg-It
• Topics and subtopics pop up faster

Small updates, but hopefully improves on the overall experience.

I’m reworking the Digg It tool to be a little more prominent when active. I’ve gotten comments that it’s not easily visible when active on the normal page. Below is a preview of what it might look like:

The updated tool should be up tonight.

I have added the ability to submit articles to Digg directly from vine.

On the right of each item below you will see a small rectangle (it will darken when you hover over it). To digg the news item, just click it and a small guide will help you through the rest.

This is just one more step to create a site that plugs into the web community.

It’s been a while since I’ve done any major upgrade to one of my biggest projects, feedProcess. Which is why I’m happy to announce a brand new, standalone feature to feedProcess called vine.

vine is an all in one RSS haven, here you can find all your informational needs. The start page lists the more popular feeds, ones that most people read on a daily basis. To get deeper all you have to do is choose your specific topic from the drop down menu. Each topic has its own sub category that nails down on exactly what you want.

The project is currently in beta, though it is mostly finished I want to take this first week of launch to nail out any final bugs. So if you find any bugs, please let me know by emailing me at feedprocess [at] gmail [dot] com or commenting on this post.

So what are you waiting for? Visit vine now.

Just a quick note to let everyone know, Get Picked is now live on feedProcess.com. This is where you can submit your favorite (or own) RSS feed to be shown on the front page.

All feed will be viewed and cleared before it will appear on the front page, so please wait roughly 2 days for the url to appear. Some feeds may not be approved, since no email is entered you will not be notified whether your feed has been approved or not. So just be patient and look on the front page if your feed appears.

May Update has been delayed for June. Mainly because some of the features needs more testing so I can get rid of some of the bugs that are still present.

I would like to take this time to ask for some feedback and possible features you guys want to see in the next update. As previously discussed, I will be working on the back-end support and some interface updates here and there. I also have an announcement to make about a cool new feature that will be added, but I’ll make that closer to the release!

Hopefully I can get this update out the door so I can start working on some of my other projects and maybe even the next major update to feedProcess.

As I work hard on the next ‘big’ update to feedProcess, I decided to get out a quick post discussing some possible features and interface changes that will be out with the dubbed, May Update. All the features listed below aren’t final and might not even make it, but I do hope most of them do!

Back-End Update:

• Stronger podcast support: I love the podcasting community, so having a reader that supports a wide variety (by that I mean -all-) podcasts is crucial. I’m hoping to open up the support for all podcast feeds, video or audio.
• feedProcess Mobile: Browsing from your portable device? Well I’ve got you covered, feedProcess will automatically detect your device and change the style of the site to fit your needs. This will include ripping all images and creating readable text on that little device of yours.
• Fast meets steroids: The RSS rendering engine will definitely be optimized to give you the fastest speeds possible.

Interface Changes

• Feed Posts: Changes will be made to the way you read the RSS feed, from new controls to a new design.
• Podcast Controls: Podcast controls will be extended, downloads, listen and view. Watching your video podcasts will also be presented in a much nicer format!

That’s all I can spill for now. If you have any features you’d like to see, please post in the comments!

I’ve updated feedProcess tonight with some small new features and some design tweaks here and there. The major difference you might (and should) notice is the slight new layout of the content, it’s placed inside a neat little white “box”. Instead of having the wide open space on the page I decided to narrow it down so that you focus on the content provided via the feed, it also gives the site less of an “empty” feel.

One of the bigger features is support for two new podcasts feeds, but not just audio feeds, but video podcasts! The first podcast are supported via two formats, including Quicktime and DivX. The two feeds that are now supported:

Podcast Name: CommandN
DivX Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/command-n/xvid
Quicktime Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/command-n/h264

Podcast Name: muzikDEN
Quicktime Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/muzikDEN-h264

So definitely be sure to check them out! Great video podcast.

I’ve also updated the RSS parsing script to deliver the content to the page with less system resources, you might not notice anything since the optimization was more geared towards lowering resources on my web server (thanks again Site5).

(if you don’t notice the changes, please Ctrl+Refresh)

With a fairly recent release of Script.aculo.us 1.7.0 beta 2, I decided to finally update! A lot of new features have been added since the previous version I’ve been using for feedProcess, hopefully the new features didn’t bring up any new bugs. So if you do notice some bugs please send me an email or post in the comments. I would really love to make the transition to the new library as painless as possible.

The new 1.7.0 beta includes something that might come in use for future features, especially the morphing effects. I’ve setup a quick single page showing what the Morph feature could do. If you have a good idea on how to implement this, I’m open to all ideas.

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Just wanted to notify everyone that the feedProcess Tour is up. It’s not exactly a big tour, just a quick highlight of some of the current features.