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I’ve just syndicated my Facebook status updates onto my blog here; you can see the most recent in the bar to the right.

Finding the RSS feed letting my export my status updates from Facebook into Wordpress wasn’t particularly clear cut though, and props go to Andy Walters for his post on where to find the right feed.

How to add your feed…

The link can be found on the Minifeed page, where you can filter by the sort of stories you are interested in, the URL to the page is: http://www.facebook.com/minifeed.php?filter=11

At the bottom of the story types under “Subscribe to these Stories” there is a ‘My Status’ link, right click this and you will have the RSS link to your Facebook status updates to use in any application you like (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, to name but a few) which supports importing RSS 2.0 feeds.

In Wordpress, you can add the feed as an ‘RSS Widget’ in any widgets-enabled theme.

Five things I wish had been included in the recent iPhone 2.2 update (and really, in the original release of the iPhone 3G).

1. A2DP (bluetooth headphone) Support
2. MMS Picture messaging
3. Landscape text entry in Mail
4. The ability to forward SMS messages
5. OBEX File transfer for photos

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I’ve been a subscriber to the excellent last.fm service for a long time now; I love it when clever technology is put to a cool purpose. Not only can you track your listening habits (which can be pretty interesting in itself, worthy of its own blog post which will follow), but with some analysis the clever guys at Last.HQ can recommend music that you will probably like. I use the stand alone app at work, too, to listen to music, giving me access to stream my music ‘from home’ as well as other interesting new tunes.

Around the same time as I got my iPhone 3G (and hence started using iTunes (never fear, I will not forget you, Frankel)) iTunes 8 was released. Apple were making a song and dance out of Genius, a function which would generate you playlists based on a starting file, as well as recommending music which you might like to buy from the iTunes Music Store (oh, how convenient - thank you Mr Jobs ;)).

To me this sounded familiar, and after having a quick gander at it to establish what it looked like, I dismissed it. Perhaps it was my choice of track, but the results it returned weren’t great.

Fast forward two months. For a laugh last night, whilst scrolling through my music, I noticed the cheese-tastic classic Loveshack by the B52s. A quick right-click, Start Genius later and I had 25 tracks which are worthy of the status of ‘Le Grand Fromage’. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of weeks age I noticed the following building in Bristol, I didn’t realise the economy had got quite this bad!