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Feed Digest: Turning RSS into dynamic content for your website

FeedDigest

Peter Cooper and Curious Office sold FeedDigest in August 2007.Feed Digest was originally developed by UK entrepreneur Peter Cooper built to solve the developer’s own problem, namely to put his del.icio.us links onto his weblog and have them update automatically for visitors to enjoy. Hundreds of thousands of sites now use FeedDigest to mix, blend and sort feed content and then republish on their own websites as dynamically updating content. As of December 2007, Feed Digest handled approximately 300 million requests per month for its customers. RSS Digest reached a peak of 9500 registered users and just over a million requests per day within nine months.

Essentially, Feed Digest is a parser, regenerator, and syndicator for, and of, RSS and Atom feeds. It lets you do things like:

* put the content of RSS or Atom feeds on your own site(s), e.g.:
o get your del.icio.us / digg links on your site automatically
o get your Flickr links on your site automatically
o have automatically updating links to other blogs
o create news alerts and news digests
* syndicate your blog’s content and/or links to other sites
* mix multiple feeds together into a single feed (Atom and RSS)
* convert RSS to Atom, and vice versa
* filter RSS and Atom feeds
* turn RSS and Atom feeds into a JavaScript include to use anywhere (even free Web space)
* turn feed(s) into WAP pages for cellphone use
* merge all blog mentions of your company onto a single page
* have your local weather update on your page(s) automatically
* merge RSS services with your Web site


The first investment for Curious Office, FeedDigest was sold in August 2007.

  • Curious Office companies

    The companies below represent current Curious equity holdings.

    Inkd

    Inkd is our latest internally developed concept. We raised our $1.7 million seed round on September 22 and are backed by Second Avenue Partners and a variety of tremendous angel investors. We are developing the World's First Market for Original Print Design.

    Read the TechCrunch article.

    Visit the Inkd website!

  • CafePress

    Cafepress acquired Imagekind in July 2008. CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic.

  • Imagekind

    Curious Office started Imagekind in 2006 and it is the world's fastest-growing art site offering over 750,000 high-quality fine art images for sale. Imagekind gives consumers limitless options to purchase museum-quality framed and poster art from over 50,000 domestic and international emerging and established artists.

  • SEOmoz.org

    Curious Office invested in SEOmoz along with Ignition Partners in 2007. SEOmoz serves as one of the largest online hubs for search marketers worldwide by providing education, tools, resources and paid services to help make every SEO the best they can be.

    Seattle PI: SEOmoz raising funds from Ignition, Curious Office

  • Shelfari

    Amazon.com acquired Shelfari in September 2008. Based in Seattle, Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers

  • Fanzter

    Fanzter is headquartered in Collinsville, Connecticut and are the creators of the wildly popular celebrity style and entertainment platform Coolspotters.com, which launched in May 2008. Fanzter secured $2 Million In Series B Funding Led By Steamboat Ventures in March 2009.

  • Wishpot

    Wishpot is a free social shopping service that makes it easy to save and share interesting things you find in stores and online. Items are easily collected online or from stores and organized using simple online lists. Lists and items can be kept private or shared with others. You can collect and discover products you like, recommend your favorite stuff, share and explore gift suggestions or ask for opinions and advice.

  • FeedDigest

    FeedDigest is a parser, regenerator, and syndicator for, and of, RSS and Atom feeds originally built by Peter Cooper. In August 2007, Feed Digest was sold to its new owners, Informer Technologies, Inc., and in 2008 rebranded to Feed Informer.