Introducing SimplePie Live! Now, it’s even easier to get started adding feeds to your websites using the software that has been called “an invaluable tool”, “the new black this season”, and “almost certainly the best PHP-based parser right now”.

Like SimplePie, SimplePie Live is a tool for developers designed to be as easy to use as possible. SimplePie Live plays well with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Prototype, MooTools, jQuery, and has a syntax that will feel familiar to existing SimplePie users.

Have a look at the Getting Started Guide, the API Reference, and find out if SimplePie Live! is the right product for you. Please note that SimplePie Live! is still in “Beta”, and as such may not be 100% reliable at this point. There will definitely be improvements and enhancements to the service which will be rolled out automatically, causing no work on your part. If we need to roll out an enhancement that will cause compatibility issues, we’ll roll it out as part of a new version, and will notify you via the SimplePie blog about the updates.

Lastly, we’re moving as fast as we can on writing up the documentation. If there’s something unclear or hasn’t been documented yet, feel free to drop into the support forums or IRC and let us know. Also, we’re always open to suggestions for improvement, so please let us know if you have any of those too. Remember that if you think that any part of this sucks, we can’t improve it unless we know about it, so please speak up.

Enjoy! 🙂

We’re slipping the SimplePie Blackberry/Live schedules by one week. I was unable to wrap up development on LIVE because my computer was in repair at Apple for 2 weeks. I just got it back on Friday, and spent the weekend getting everything re-installed from scratch. Geoffrey also spent the weekend getting his computer set up from scratch, but that’s because he got a brand-new MacBook Pro recently.

Either way, we need a little more time to wrap things up on both fronts, so we’ll plan to have two awesome releases this upcoming weekend. 🙂

Development on SimplePie 1.1 (“Blackberry”) is wrapping up and we’re planning to push it live sometime over the weekend. This release consists of several bug fixes, including things that were originally scheduled for our 1.0 release that just didn’t make the cutoff. Few, if any, new features will be in this release but it will definitely resolve some of the long-standing issues we’ve had.

This weekend will also see the unveiling of a NEW addition to the SimplePie product line: SimplePie Live! For those who haven’t heard me talk about it before, SimplePie Live makes it easy to add feeds to your websites and webapps using asynchronous JavaScript. SimplePie Live integrates well with modern JavaScript libraries such as Prototype, MooTools, and jQuery, yet still maintains an API that existing SimplePie users will find familiar.

We’ll be launching the very first public beta this weekend so it may still take a little time to work out bugs and document SPLive-specific notes. This is a product that has been a long time coming, and we’re very excited to share it with you all. We’ve got a temporary placeholder page in-place over at http://live.simplepie.org that talks about some of the features (technical and non-technical) and many of the ways where we meet or beat Google’s AJAX Feed API service.

We’ll see you soon! 🙂