And it tastes like oranges.

We’ll be ready for beta later tonight. I did a bit of redesigning today, which vastly improved the look, I think. The discussion forums have been set up, and I am currently integrating a few nifty little AJAX bits and pieces into the Feedzo maintenance area.

Our logo design contest over at GFXContests ends at midnight tonight and we’ll be picking a winner for that tomorrow. There are some really great entries and it’s going to be a tough choice between 3 or 4 different logos that we like very much. — I’ll announce the winner here tomorrow.

We’ll also be closing the beta sign-ups tonight at midnight as well, so if you haven’t signed up and want in on the fun, go sign up before it’s too late.

-- Kelli

We took a giant leap closer to beta…. It was a long night, but so worth it.

Eye candy to tempt you:

Next Up:
- Fix bug in parsing relative feed URLs. - DONE!
- User maintenance page
- Feed overview page
- Feed maintenace page

-- Kelli

I’m nearly finished converting Feedzo over to a user-based system. I wasn’t going to do this previously (because I had some crazy ideas for other things), but I’ve decided it would be best. This is what has been causing the delay in the start of the beta test, but if all goes well, it’ll be up and running really soon.

On a related note: does anyone have a *good* JavaScript color-picker widget? By good I mean re-usable (royalty free) with very minimal code needed to call it, relatively light-weight and cross-browser.

Update: As you can tell from the screenshot above, I found a nice color-picker that does just what we were looking for.

-- Kelli

Good news! Feedzo is back in action, with an entirely new direction and a good portion of the development completed or at least well underway.

I’m not going to let too much out of the bag, but Feedzo promises to be a unique and powerful remote RSS reading service that should prove quite useful to blog owners and other webmasters who want to quickly and easily add syndicated content to their site (with literally one short line of code) while still maintaining control over its appearance. Feedzo will also be great for people who want to compile their own RSS reading lists and share them with others.

If you want in on the fun, check out our main site and sign up for the private beta program. We’re not sure how many people we’ll be accepting yet, but we’ll need at least a few.

-- Kelli