PostBadge tag to show // FeedBurner FeedFlare. // ------------------------- // FeedBurner account and feed required. // Sign up at http://feedburner.com //================================================ class module_feedflare { function init(){ global $gregarious; $gregarious->add_settings ( array ( 'feedburner_url' => '' ) ); $gregarious->add_page ( 'FeedFlare', 'modules/feed-flare/icn_Flare.png', 'page_feedflare();', 'feedFlare' ); } function postbadge_tags(){ return array ( array ( 'tag' => '%FLARE%', 'replacewith' => 'feed_flare("",false)' ), ); } function update_info(){ return 100; } } //------------------------------------------ // TEMPlATE TAGS //------------------------------------------ function feed_flare($settings = '', $echo = true){ global $wp_query; $post = $wp_query->post; $sets = array('postID' => $post->ID, 'before' => '', 'after' => 'Gregarious FeedFlare', 'force' => 0 ); grab_sets($settings, $sets); if ( !$sets['force'] && hideOnID($sets['postID']) ){ return ''; } if( !$path = _get_feedburner_url() ) return ''; if( substr( $path, -1 ) == '/' ){ $path = substr( $path, 0, strlen( $path ) -1 ); } $path = str_replace ( 'feedburner.com/', 'feedburner.com/~s/', $path ); $path .= '?i='.get_permalink($sets['postID']); $result = $sets['before'] . "" . $sets['after']; if($echo) echo $result; else return $result; } function _get_feedburner_url(){ $feedurl = greg_get_option( 'feedburner_url' ); if ( $feedurl ){ return attribute_escape($feedurl); } else { $feedburner_settings = get_option('feedburner_settings'); if( is_array($feedburner_settings) && ($feedurl = $feedburner_settings['feedburner_url']) ) { return attribute_escape($feedurl); } else { return false; } } } //------------------------------------------ // OPTIONS PAGE //------------------------------------------ function page_feedflare(){ $feedurl = _get_feedburner_url(); ?> Program Recommendation: Raptr at spencerb.net
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Program Recommendation: Raptr

Published on April 6, 2009 in Games and Technology. 2 Comments Tags: , .

Raptr is a website and a program that integrates features of social networking sites and gaming. On the social networking front this includes Facebook and Twitter. On the gaming front, it can recognize any game (to my knowledge). Specifically, it can link to WoW characters, Steam IDs, Xbox Live, and Wii.

The obvious advantage to this is having information about what games your friends are playing and when. For instance, if I see someone logging onto play Halo, I could start up my Xbox and join the same game. Similarly, if someone was on Steam playing TF2, I could join the game. Raptr informs other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter (if you enable them) that you are playing a game, so people who are your friends on those sites can see. Recently, Steam friends has been much improved, Raptr functions to act as a cross-platform integrator.

I’ve only been experimenting with it for a few days and have no friends on it yet, but I think it is worth checking out if you play any sort of video game. The disadvantage is having another app running on your computer.

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  1. Dan Schoppe posted the following on April 8, 2009 at 11:59 am.

    Sounds cool, but almost scary with the level of monitoring going on…
    I’m not sure I would configure Facebook access either, maybe excessive to have status updates when you load up a game.

    Too bad it doesn’t work with DS!

    I’ve been playing a lot of “Professor Layton and the Curious Village.” It’s an _awesome_ puzzle game.

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    [...] spring, I made a recommendation about a service called Raptr. At the time, I thought it was an interesting way to combine social [...]

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