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Well i wasn’t really hacking into myspace but the little springbox widget that I found enabled me to display external rss feeds in a myspace page has stopped working (thanks Psy_gen). Appears Tom has been tightening things up.

I’m not going to give up though … we where getting a lot of clicks through from people hosting the Greenpeace rss on their myspace pages.

Anyone know a good way to do it?

A little while ago i wrote a post about my efforts to provide a good easy way for people to host the Greenpeace action rss feed on their website.

The problem was that while we’ve got our “Really Simple Syndication” feeds set up, it’s not always really simple for people to use them. So with Feed2JS I’ve provided a more simple way for people to grab our feed for their website.

But then of course I got a request for some way to display it in myspace where javascript is not allowed. This is a big problem because let’s face it - a large number of people with their own websites are myspace or blogger users.

So I’ve had a scan around and came across a great little flash rss widget from http://www.thespringbox.com/ that works beautifully in myspace.

You can grab the code over at the Greenpeace site or make your own custom version

I’ve just spent the last hour playing around with rss and feedburner to generate an easy host your own Greenpeace action rss feed includelet.

A little rss, a touch of css, a smidgen of javascript and hey presto - your own self updating Greenpeace Take Action box!

Just grab the code and paste it into your template or page. You can restyle it however you like - see mine over there in the sidebar. Continue reading ‘Syndicating the Greenpeace action feed’