Support for GeoRSS feeds added
by Byron Appelt
News, Web 2.0, Products December 7th, 2007Here at Ublip, we are big fans of mashup applications which are applications that combine data from multiple sources. We have just released our first feature to help allow their creation. The most recent location of a device is now available as a secure GeoRSS feed. If you look above the upper right corner of the map on the All Readings report, there is now a GeoRSS icon that is linked to this feed, see the image below:
In the near future, we will be adding additional feeds for multiple devices, geofence violations, stops, etc. If you have any suggestions for feeds or other kinds of API access, contact us.
One of our developers has written a blog post about integrating Ublip feeds with Yahoo Pipes.
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