Grazr Blog

The widget has learned some new, relatively powerful, tricks over the past couple weeks. We not only added iPhone support, but we’ve also added a framework for anchors and expansion control that enables some neat applications. We’ve been asked for anchor-type functionality by more than a few people. These new arguments allow you to […]

GrazrScript has taken a pretty major step today, we’ve released a new version that integrates procedural scripting! We’re continuing to keep GrazrScript in Beta but this is such a significant development in the functioning of GrazrScript that it needed a new major functional revision number, so I’m proud to announce GrazrScript 1.2 Beta.
When Adam and […]

Check out Grazr.com, we’ve taught it to do some new tricks! One of the support questions we’ve gotten many times is, “yes I realize my desktop feed reader outputs OPML, but where can I put it so that grazr can use it?” (well I’m paraphrasing). Up until know we haven’t had a very good answer […]

Constantin Basturea has made the blog book (or blook) that Robert Scoble and Shel Israel have written, Naked Conversations, browsable via grazr. Cool use, Constantin, Thanks!
This was actually one of the uses we’d envisioned for Grazr as a tool, organizing e-books (or more specifically blooks) like this. It’s great to see that happen! […]

Danny Ayers, my favorite semantic web blogger, has an interesting reaction to a post by Seth Ladd, who writes: “Is Usefulness Inversely Proportional to Specificity?”.
From Seth’s post:
A successful metadata format for the web must be easily understood by humans, even if it is to be useful for machines. RDF and OWL seem to have […]

David Tebbutt has published a small six minute presentation on OPML which was a distillation of a talk he gave at a Online Information Conference. He shows Grazr, but also talks about other sources and uses for OPML.
As an aside, I always think It’s fun to actually hear someone’s voice with whom I’ve corresponded.

Another popular online feed reading solution is the NewsGator online feed reader. Much like with Bloglines, Grazr is an excellent compliment to the NewsGator tools allowing sharing and republishing of your collection of feeds. This post will be a quick How-to for publicly exporting your reading list, and a few other tricks for using NewsGator […]

While I wrote this little Grazr bookmarklet a while ago I’ve found that I’ve been using it a lot recently. I thought I would post it since others might find it useful as well.

Bookmarklets
“View in Grazr” Bookmarklet (three pane)
“View in Grazr” Bookmarklet (outline)
“View in Grazr” Bookmarklet (slider)
Directions:

Right click and “save as bookmark” at least […]

Congrats to Amyloo on the just released, O’Reilly “Getting Acquainted with OPML” ‘Short Cuts’!

(via Alex Barnett)

Marjolein Hoekstra and James Corbett collaborated last week to create a very nice autodiscovery bookmarklet for OPML. The bookmarklet scans the page for tags like
<link rel=”outline” type=”text/xml+opml” href=”URLOFOPML” title=”Name of OPML” />
in a fashion similar to how RSS feeds can be auto-discovered inside web pages by modern browsers (IE7, FF, Safari, etc…). It then […]