Feel free to discuss this feature and ask questions here.

Prisca has written a cool blog post about how to republish your del.icio.us items using Feed Digest. Thanks Prisca!

1) The Feed Digest control panel will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes.
2) Updates on feeds will probably stop for up to 30 minutes.

Actual serving of digests, etc, should be unaffected as we're keeping both systems running as they switch over. Report any problems here or in the forum ASAP though!

It’s still in the middle of being rolled out, so excuse any minor flaws for the next week or two, but I'm working really hard on the roll out of the all new FeedDigest.com. I hope you like it!

(Update - Feb 2007: It’s just a shame that post no longer exists :()

Currently users can give an optional header and footer template and a 'per item' template. So their per-item template might look something like this:

<p><a href="%URL%">%TITLE,40%</a>.. %DESCRIPTIONPLAIN%</p>

Quite simple. A paragraph for each item in the digest with a link using a truncated title (to 40 characters) followed by a HTML-stripped description. But.. for anything more complex than this, it begins to suck. So, I've invented a language called MoFo. It stands for "Markup Output Format" but the name is as much humorous as practical. It is markup itself, so doesn't have the best name. It'll do for now though. With MoFo you can do things like this:

<% foreach source in sources %>

    <p><b><%= source->title %></b></p>

    <ul>

    <% foreach entry in source.entries %>


        <li><a href="<%= entry->url %>"><%= entry->title %></a></li>


    <% end %>

    </ul>


<% end %>

It’s basically a more extensive language which will allow me (as well as advanced FeedDigest users) to develop more templates for FeedDigest users in a quicker time. I'll also be able to use it to develop RSS and Atom templates in varying formats, as opposed to the two 'fixed' RSS and Atom templates now. Users will be able to create their own WML/WAP templates, OPML templates, and, well, anything they want on each digest.

MoFo doesn't have much logic in it yet, but this is all being developed right now. Eventually if it has anything to do with feeds and content redistribution in the vaguest, Feed Digest will be the #1 API and developer platform to use. The easy stuff will be even easier, and the complex stuff will now be possible.

More news to come as this stuff begins to roll out..

Improved search. The search query system has been improved a little. Now you can use phrases in your queries, so a query of "international space station" will match posts that contain that phrase rather than each of the individual words. You can also use a wildcard on the end of individual words (not in phrases), so nano* will match 'nanotechnology', 'nanobots', and so forth.

Cross domain support for Flash developers. All techie stuff, but we now support this with a crossdomain.xml file on app.feeddigest.com.

Meta URLs (in beta). If you want to create some digests in a hurry based on popular feeds, you can now skip the complex URLs and specify things like.. googleblog:whatever , delicioustag:whatever , delicioususer:whoever , blogdigger:whatever , and so forth. We talk more about it here. It’s only in beta though, so any problems.. post them to that forum post
OPML export. It’s only a minor addition, but you can now get an OPML file of all the feeds in a certain digest from your control panel. Please alert us to any quirks with this.

To come..? A beta of "e-mail to digest" is rolling out to all users in the next few days.