Making RSS Graffiti: Archive

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RSS Graffiti 2.0

We have some big news to share: This month we will be rolling out RSS Graffiti 2.0. This will be a major update, containing improvements that will expand the power and usability of the application. With this release you can expect an increase in speed and greater control over how & where your feeds are published. The RSS Graffiti team has been hard at work on this update, and when you see...

Feb 1st

A major new milestone: An exciting acquisition!

We’ve been using this blog mostly to talk about milestones. We can’t help it! It’s been such a crazy ride! Monthly active users are up to 1.300.000 already; total installed users are over 600.000 by now! Exciting stuff! But here is one more new milestone that makes this ride amazing and goes beyond anything we could plan or hope for a few months ago! Today, we announced that...

Aug 9th

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Milestones, milestones...

RSS Graffiti seems to be steadily doubling in size about every four months. We just passed the 300.000 active walls milestone. One third of those users joined us in the last three months. We are pretty excited about it! On the same day, today, we also passed the 1.000.000 MAU (monthly active users) milestone. Ok; numbers are boring. But not when they mark milestones! Talking about milestones,...

May 17th

200.000 Active Walls & counting

Just another 4 months after crossing the 100.000 active walls milestone, RSS Graffiti is doubling in size again: 200.000 Facebook Walls are now actively using RSS Graffiti to publish their updates to Facebook. It’s even more amazing considering that just 8 months ago we crossed the 50.000 active walls milestone: 4X growth in 8 months. Add to that that CNN uses RSS Graffiti to publish...

Feb 15th

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A quick look back at 2010

Twenty ten was for us an exciting year. Although we didn’t actually do all the things we wanted to do during the year, we worked hard to evolve RSS Graffiti and we did watch it grow beyond our initial expectations. As we enter 2011, 163.000 Facebook Walls actively use RSS Graffiti. Compared to the 7.000 active walls at the end of 2009, RSS Graffiti has seen a 20 fold increase during 2010. ...

Jan 6th

RSS Graffiti 1.9.5 Beta released

We just released RSS Graffiti version 1.9.5 Beta. This version has heavy updates in the back-end but no visible changes in the user interface. In a nut-shell, RSS Graffiti 1.9.5 Beta: is faster, is more stable, is more scalable, is a precursor to RSS Graffiti 2.0 and runs on its new back-end, is not a feature release. In more detail: The processing engine now has a different architecture...

Dec 14th

Upcoming release tonight

While preparing for launching RSS Graffiti version 2.0 in January, we will be making an intermediate release today. Although tonight’s release will be bringing RSS Graffiti very close to version 2.0, you will neither notice any differences in the user interface, nor will you be getting any new features tonight. So here are the important things that we will be deploying tonight: Pack-up...

Dec 13th

The road ahead

We’ve been quiet for a while working for our next milestone. Our last release was in early August. That was version 1.9.0 Beta, in which we had packed a lot of new features. Since then, RSS Graffiti has doubled its user base yet again in less than four months. We were publishing on 70.000 active walls back in August 2010. Now we are publishing in over 140.000 walls and expect to grow over...

Dec 3rd

“RSS Graffiti just passed 100.000 targets!”

– Just 4 months after crossing the 50.000 active targets (Facebook walls) milestone, RSS Graffiti doubles in size again. Today it publishes over 170.000 feeds on the walls of (roughly) 27.000 Profiles, 65.000 Fan Pages, 8.000 Groups, 800 Applications and 100 Events across Facebook!

Oct 7th

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Facebook Groups can now publish on their own wall...

RSS Graffiti was possibly the first application to support publishing of RSS/Atom feeds on Facebook Groups early this year. Nevertheless as our users know, unlike Fan Pages, Facebook Groups could not write on their own wall so the identity of a user was always used to publish all posts. Well, not anymore! RSS Graffiti 1.9.0.x Beta allows you to use the Group’s identity to publish on the...

Jul 23rd

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RSS Graffiti 1.9.0 Beta released

We just released the latest version of RSS Graffiti. which apart from a lot of excitement (at least to us as developers), brings on some interesting features that are quite new (and possibly still unique) in Facebook. We’ll give you a short intro on what’s in this new version and we will follow up with a more extensive feature list and more details on specific features. Publish on...

Jul 22nd

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Publish on Facebook Application Profiles

For a long time, almost every application developer on Facebook was looking for a way to push RSS Feeds on their Facebook Application Profile Pages. We’ve been looking for ways to implement this for a long time too, but finally we have the solution built in RSS Graffiti 1.9.0 Beta. We are so excited about it, we are writing this first blog post right after the release of RSS Graffiti 1.9.0...

Jul 18th

“RSS Graffiti has just passed 50.000 targets!”

– RSS Graffiti launched 8 months ago. Today it serves over 12.000 Facebook Profiles, over 32.000 Fan Pages and over 4.000 Facebook Groups, publishing on them stories from 85.000 feeds every 5-6 minutes!

Jun 14th

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Updates in the processing engine

We just released version 1.8.5 Beta of RSS Graffiti. The focus of this version was the processing engine. What was wrong with it? It inexplicably slow. RSS Graffiti started on September 2009 and has been working like a charm since then. Of course there are always things to improve or problems to solve. But mostly everything was smooth as far as the application itself was concerned. Until, one...

Jan 27th

FaceBook Action Links Policy Changed.

As we recently discovered the hard way (reading complaints of RSS Graffiti users), Facebook has changed its policy about Story Action Links to the stricter. In short, only one custom Action Link is now allowed to be added to each story published on a wall and it can be up to 25 characters long in text. Any further Action Links submitted by applications will be ignored. This is applied immediately...

Nov 16th

Hello World!

We are setting up the team blog of RSS Graffiti. Adding Disqus comments and Get Satisfaction widgets. The plan is talk about the RSS Graffiti team adventures here and share whatever other useful but relevant thing we come about while developing this application and trying to turn into something useful for everybody. Stay tuned.

Oct 14th