Magpie and CaRP are two popular RSS parser scripts, both written in PHP, but which is better? I did a quick comparison, and this is what I came up with. Yes, I am the creator of CaRP, so read carefully and decide for yourself whether you can trust me! I'll try to be as objective...
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Every once in a while, I hear about another "National Something-Or-Other Day" or "National This-Or-That Month", and it makes me wonder. Who decides that August 5 will be "National Underwear Day"? (I'm not kidding about that one, by the way!)

Unless there's some Department of National Days and Months that I've never heard about, anybody...
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I have 95 extra copies of a CD I created for a conference I attended recently, which I'm making available to the public. The contents include full versions of my scroller script (Tetra), exit hover ad script (ExPop) and viral mailing list mailer (List Mailer GT Pro), along with limited edition versions of my RSS...
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I'm running a one week only special on CaRP Evolution and YesTube to raise money to pay our greedy hospital. I'll get to the deal in just a minute, but first a little background.

A few months ago, my baby boy, Lincoln, got RSV. He spent 3 days in the hospital just in case things...
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I've just posted a new page on Chordata called "Net Pulse News". It pulls the hottest search trends from Google Trends, and displays news, blog and video search results based on those keywords.

Google Trends identifies the hottest trends in search -- the keywords that massive numbers of people have recently started searching for. When...
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I've just released a new revision of the CaRP/WP WordPress plugin that integrates my RSS to HTML converter with WordPress. The new version adds support for the YouTube plugin that I just released for CaRP. Using it, you can display dynamically updating YouTube videos in your WordPress posts and pages.

The videos can be selected...
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I've just added a YouTube plugin to my RSS to HTML converter script, CaRP.

Using the new plugin, you can display YouTube videos on your website using their preconfigured RSS feeds (for example, recently added, top rated, most viewed, etc.), or you can get a feed for any tag or YouTube user by following the...
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I just launched a new service on Chordata called "Top Feeds" that generates RSS feeds from the content of the top feeds in each category on the site. Go to any category and click the subscription button near the upper-right corner of the page to subscribe. As the top feeds in a category change, you'...
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CaRP 4.0 has been released, and until Saturday, is available at an introductory discount price. Click here for details on what's in this update, and here to get your copy.

With the release of CaRP 4.0 just days away, I've found myself thinking back to the beginnings of Gecko Tribe, LLC, and how CaRP came to be my flagship product. Here's a brief history of my company.

After graduating from San Francisco State University in 1994, I got a job in the Japanese development group...
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