Neptune’s Lab

As I research the API and RSS Feed capabilities of various Web 2.0 services I will be continuously updating this matrix. Check this article often for updates.

				API	Feeds
Social Network
	(www)(wiki)		Facebook	yes
	(www)(wiki)		MySpace		blog
	(www)(wiki)		Bebo
	(www)(wiki)		Hi5
	(www)(wiki)		Orkut
Media Sharing
	(www)(wiki)		YouTube	yes	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Flickr	yes *	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Picasa	yes	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Veoh	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Uber
Bookmarking
	(www)(wiki)		del.icio.us	yes	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Simpy	yes	yes
	(www)(wiki)		StumbleUpon
Blogging
	(www)(wiki)		Blogger	yes
	(www)(wiki)		LiveJournal	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Technorati	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Twitter	yes
News
	(www)(wiki)		Digg	yes
Music
	(www)(wiki)		last.fm	yes	yes
Community Aggregarors	(www)(wiki)		Mashable

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Just updated Neptune’s Blogger profile. I added an addition blog on Blogger to host documents published from Google Docs.

Neptune’s Blogger profile:

http://www.blogger.com/profile/17531511657077227390

Neptune’s Docs on Blogger:

http://neptunesdocs.blogspot.com/

I will be writing more regarding Google Docs soon.

Below is a photo uploaded from a camera phone to Neptune’s blogger account.

Neptune uses blogger to update his mobile blog. I have decided to use neptunesmobile.blogspot.com and have blogger host the mobile blog rathan than their very cool FTP option.

I tried the FTP option and had blogger update another subdomain on dilated.org. However the import option from WordPress required the blog to be hosted by blogger. Another option is to point the DNS on the subdomain to blogger. Since cPanel makes DNSing subdomains a pain I opted to just use the neptunesmobile.blospot.com domain.

I plan to have Neptune email a few photos to his new mobile blog along with other interesting ways to make it useful.

WordPress has an import and export feature to many popular blogging sites and software (Blogware, DotClear, GreyMatter, LiveJournal, MovableType and TypePad, Textpattern and WordPress,) however this is a bit of a manual process since you have to login as an administrator and click the import button. This feature seem to be intended to help you migrate you blog content from one system to another and not really for of syndication.

I will be exploring various syndication options from Neptune’s Mobile Blog on Blogge. Trying everything from simple RSS to Feedburner and hopefully Google’s API.