Create a Personalized Flash RSS/Atom Reader
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006If you have a FeedBurner account, you can use the new Publicize/SpringWidgets service to publish your feed in a Flash-based RSS/Atom Reader. This gives you the ability to drop an embed tag into any HTML page or as a widget in social sites like MySpace.
As an experiment I put one on markwoodman.com, and I like the results. Here’s a screenshot of a smaller version:

This example has small dimensions, but you can specify any length/width you like. (The one on markwoodman.com is much wider.) If you would like to play with the SpringWidget interface, you can use my widget as an example.
The widget skin provided through FeedBurner only gives partial text of each item, but in a widget environment, that makes sense. Clicking on an item will take you to the corresponding page, or you can click on the embedded RSS icon to take you to the FeedBurner feed. Good stuff.

