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We realize that Feevy tips we occasionally post here are difficult to find, so we had just created the category “tips” to group tips and tricks. Now you can check this category to learn different ways to use feevy and to take advantage of yours.

At the top of sidebar you can find the latest posts of tips category. Follow this category through the RSS 2.0 and don’t forget to visit the Feevy FAQ!

OPML is now supported into Feevy to import/export your blogroll.
In your Feevy Manage, you can import an OPML file when “adding new blogs“, or export your Feevy list as an OPML with the link you’ll find at the bottom of the page.

Get OPML file from Google Reader

Fotolog is becoming one of the most popular blog services. Feevy will show as excerpt of fotolog blogs, not the texts but the thumbnail of the last post/picture… as we use to make with Picassa and Flickr subscriptions.

If you have subscribed a fotolog blog, you will see thumbnails as excerpts, as soon as the blog owner updates.

Feevy has a new FAQ. Until we will install and prepare a wiki in order to include easy and collavoratively your experiencies with feevy, we hope it will be useful for you.

First release of Feevy sidebar widget, that would people using free wordpress.com account to get Feevy in their sidebars if wordpress.com people consider interesting to add it in their system.

To test it on your ‘own-managed’ wordpress weblog:

• Download and install Sidebar Widget plugin. Your Wordpress theme need to be compatible, or you can modify it using these instructions;
• Download and install Feevy Sidebar Widget;
• Configure your Feevy widget in Sidebar Widget configuration panel.

You can add up to 9 Feevy in your sidebar (or sidebars). It would be particulary useful for people using tags.

Coming plugin: Feevy Blogroll

This plugin will insert a new panel in Wordpress Blogroll section, allowing you to manage your Feevy directly from your Wordpress admin.

More to come soon

Now, each feevy and each tag of a single feevy generates its own RSS feed. Thus you will be able to include a feevy in other feevies, to follow the selections in your feed reader, etc.

The general structure of our feed’s URIs is:

http://www.feevy.com/code/your_ID/rss.xml for the RSS of feevy
http://www.feevy.com/code/your_ID/tags/tag1+tag2/rss.xml to obtain the RSS of the blogs associated with a tag in your feevy

If you want to follow the RSS of Wannabepresidents.com, its URI will be:

http://www.feevy.com/code/1153/rss.xml

But you only want to follow the democrat candidates:

http://www.feevy.com/code/1153/tags/democrat/rss.xml

and if you want the RSS of the candidates who have been tagged as republican AND democrats

http://www.feevy.com/code/1153/tags/democrat+republican/rss.xml

(Obviously this example’s RSS is empty because there are no candidate tagged as republican AND democrat)

You might have seen on your Feevy manage panel that you can now add tags for each of your blogs. This feature will help you create different feevy from your own feevy.

Here is an example: http://www.streetr.net
This feevy page about streetart contains the same feevy, but select the blogs to display depending on tags - artists or tagged photos in this example.

So, first you have to tag the blogs in Feevy manage panel, just by clicking “add to edit” near the tag label, and entering your new tags. Validate your choice by clicking on the submit button.

Then, on your webpage where you have your feevy code, just filter the tags your want to display using the following format to replace the “src” attribute in your Feevy code:

src=”http://www.feevy.com/code/your_id/tag/cooking” to display your feevy’s blog tagged with “cooking” in the default Feevy style.

src=”http://www.feevy.com/code/your_id/tags/trip+asia/white” to display your feevy’s blog tagged with “trip” and “asia” in the Feevy white style.

Possibilities extends a lot with tags. Be creative and you’ll find great games to play with your Feevy!

Experiencing feevy in my blog is changing the meaning of many services and sections I always try to integrate in it…

1. Blogroll: Dynamic blogroll shows the thinking proccess in your network, nothing to do with static blogroll. Feevized blogs are social, living beings. Once you embeb feevy your blog will be no more a collection of isolated speeches, but your side of the social conversation.
2. Twitter: try to include in your feevy What You And Your Friends Are Doing (URI: http://twitter.com/YOUR-TWITTER-USER-NAME/with_friends). The result is awsome. The narrative of your networks’ everyday will be embebed and will give context to the deeper conversation of blogs.
3. Del.icio.us network RSS: adding to your feevy your del.icio.us network RSS means to have a real time look over what is calling the attetion of your people, to the new incomes in your conversation
4. Flickr tags: Adding the result of a tag search to your feevy is to redefine the visual context of your blog with the vision of the world about the subjects what matters to you.

Try them in your feevy now and lets comment the results! I guess my blog is full of meanings now that before it hadnt.

Now you can add flickr users, flickr tags or flickr albums to your feevy. Using flickr API, in your feevy will appear a thumbnail of the last picture posted of 100px on longest side.

We are sure you will love it!

Since yesterday night there’s a new feature at your dispossal in feevy: you can subscribe to your favourite Picasa Web Albums or authors.

A 160px width thumbnail of last picture published in the album or last album cover (if you add the author’s page) will appear in your feevy. You can see the tests in my blog.