My first feed flare

February 24, 2006 by Oliver
Filed under: Personal, Technology 

101 Flare Ideas for a Better Tomorrow page (#10).

It lets you display the age of an item in a Feedburner feed in a nice human format (17 minutes old, 4 days old) etc. It’s really dead simple but I figured Feed Flare might be useful and it was good idea to practice before writing something really cool.

You can see it in action in my feed.

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  1. rolandog on Fri, 17th Mar 2006 3:37 pm

    2. Great idea! Human friendly formats are really helpful. Though I’ve sometimes found myself asking ‘what day was it 23 days ago?’

  2. Gonzalo MAZA on Tue, 23rd Jan 2007 7:58 pm

    3. < ![CDATA[Would you mind to public release the script? I'm using it in my blog, but i'd really like to have a version in Spanish language. If not... are you interested in developing an Spanish language version on age-flare? In that case...
    "23 hours old" is "Escrito hace 23 horas".
    "3 days old" is "Escrito hace 3 días"
    "2 weeks old" is "Escrito hace 2 semanas", etc...
    minutes is minutos
    month is mes
    year is año.
    THANKS!
    G]]>

  3. Oliver on Tue, 23rd Jan 2007 9:46 pm

    4. < ![CDATA[http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/age-flare-es.xml

    There is a good chance the Spanish in the description is wrong, so let me know :)

    If anyone wants to modify it, the PHP is also no available here:

    http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/age-flare.txt>

  4. Mamod on Sat, 21st Jun 2008 11:14 am

    5. < ![CDATA[Hello Oliver,

    Great flare indeed, i want to know if I can customize it to use as a "dynamic door" in my service "feedoor.com" it's the same thing as Feedburner feedflare with some differences, please let me know if I can use it and I'll customize it and link it back to your blog in the catalog page

    Thank you]]>