Can't get RSS feeds to work with Google Profile

[havanese]

I am trying to attach my smugmug recent photos RSS to my google profile

http://www.google.com/profiles/randypollock

When I provide the link it says that it sees the feed, but when you try and view the profile page it says there is an error with the feed.

http://randyandgerri.smugmug.com/photos/518396239_sNq9q-S.jpg

http://randyandgerri.smugmug.com/photos/518397309_wG7aG-M.jpg

Anyone using Google have their profile page working with Smug?

[Bill Curnow]

I've tried, but like you I haven't had any success in adding one of my SmugMug feeds to my Google Profile.

[havanese]

I haven't asked the help desk, maybe one of them could post here about why it doesn't work.

[Andy]

What is google profile? I use SmugMug feeds in Google reader, no problem...

[havanese]

What is google profile? I use SmugMug feeds in Google reader, no problem...

A Google profile is simply how you present yourself on Google products to other Google users. It allows you to control how you appear on Google and tell others a bit more about who you are. With a Google profile, you can easily share your web content on one central location. You can include, for example, links to your blog, online photos, and other profiles such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and more. You have control over what others see. Your profile won't display any private information unless you've explicitly added it (http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=97706).

I use it to let people see all my websites, social networks, pictures (if I can get it to work) and shared google reader articles

[Andy]

OK And what rss feed are you using? Paste it here pls thx.

[havanese]

OK And what rss feed are you using? Paste it here pls thx.

Recent photos:

http://randyandgerri.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=nicknameRecentPhotos&Data=randyandgerri&format=rss200

[havanese]

Any idea why that feed isn't work?

[Andy]

Any idea why that feed isn't work?
Yup. It was a bug on our end, fixed internally and on our dev/test servers but not live. We'll have it live within the next week or so I hope.

Thanks.

[havanese]

Yup. It was a bug on our end, fixed internally and on our dev/test servers but not live. We'll have it live within the next week or so I hope.

Thanks.

Thanks Andy, I'll make myself a note to try it again in a week or two and post back the results.

[Andy]

Thanks Andy, I'll make myself a note to try it again in a week or two and post back the results.
Or, you could subscribe to our release-notes feed in your favorite feed reader :D

[havanese]

Or, you could subscribe to our release-notes feed in your favorite feed reader :D

Added to my google reader.. learn something new everyday

[glecko]

Yup. It was a bug on our end, fixed internally and on our dev/test servers but not live. We'll have it live within the next week or so I hope.

Thanks.
Rockin' thanks Andy - how does one find out when stuff like that is updated? Is there a thread/blog/twitter/facebook update? Thanks!

[havanese]

Rockin' thanks Andy - how does one find out when stuff like that is updated? Is there a thread/blog/twitter/facebook update? Thanks!

Just go here and add the RSS feed to your favorite reader

http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/

[glecko]

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[havanese]

Have not seen any updates about this in release notes, has there been an issue that prevented it from coming off the test servers?

[bwg]

Have not seen any updates about this in release notes, has there been an issue that prevented it from coming off the test servers?Turns out the bug we fixed wasn't what was preventing Google profiles from reading the feed. We're talking with Google trying to figure it out.

[havanese]

Thanks for the update. I have gotten positive feedback from my clients and friends when they can see my signature line in emails now using the google profiles as they see all my contact info, social networks, websites, etc...

Once this error gets fixed I can turn it on as well.

[fredjclaus]

This also works.

The administrator may have enabled RSS syndication, this allows you to view newly created threads in guest viewable forums without visiting the board.
The feeds are currently provided in two formats, RSS and RSS v2. The differences are as follows:

RSS 0.91 - This feed is based on a standard written by netscape and provides a link and the title of the thread.
http://www.dgrin.com/external.php?type=rss
RSS 2.0 - This feed contains title, author, date and the contents of the first post of the thread.
http://www.dgrin.com/external.php?type=rss2To add this to MyYahoo click here (http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/promo_content?.module=ycontent&.url=http://www.dgrin.com/external.php?type=rss2).
The forums to which this applies can also be limited to specific guest viewable forums by adding another paramater to the URL containing the forumids as follows:
http://www.dgrin.com/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=123

If you would like the content to be generated for multiple forums you can seperate the forumids by commas.

[havanese]

This also works.

The administrator ... multiple forums you can seperate the forumids by commas.

I have no idea what this has to do with the question of this post.

RSS feeds for recent pictures does not work in Google Profiles

[havanese]

Gave up and added my flickr account to the profile.

(kind of disappointed) :dunno

[Andy]

(kind of disappointed) :dunno
I'm sorry :( But we're putting our feed out properly, according to our engineers. We'll keep trying!

[mbrady]

I'm somewhat inclined to think Google is expecting something a little funny, but I can't say for sure. After all, Smugmug RSS feeds work perfectly fine in Google Reader, but that same RSS feed gets an error from Google Profile. When you put in the feed URL, it says it found a feed, but when you go to the profile page, in the spot where the pictures should show up, it just says "Photo feed error -- please check your photo source URL.", which isn't very helpful.

[havanese]

I'm somewhat inclined to think Google is expecting something a little funny, but I can't say for sure. After all, Smugmug RSS feeds work perfectly fine in Google Reader, but that same RSS feed gets an error from Google Profile. When you put in the feed URL, it says it found a feed, but when you go to the profile page, in the spot where the pictures should show up, it just says "Photo feed error -- please check your photo source URL.", which isn't very helpful.

Same issue here, I do have all the RSS feeds working in Google Reader.

Makes you wonder what is different between flickr RSS and SM RSS.

I'm not smart enough about RSS to figure that one out

[rainforest1155]

ignore my reply. I was referring to Google Reader. Never heard of Google Profile before.

Sebastian

[RogersDA]

Try removing and re-adding your feeds. I remember having heard that this issue is fixed, but to get Google reader to update, you need to remove and resubscribe to it. But then, it might be a different issue.

If that doesn't help, did you give the Atom feeds a try instead of using RSS?

SebastianI have added/removed/replaced the RSS and Atom feeds in Google to no avail. :dunno


Perhaps merging this thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=120510) into this one, too? Same issue...

[Comfort]

Hi guys,

I have a Google Profile (http://www.google.com/profiles/glennbatten) and one of the features is a photo feed from either Picasa, Flickr or a custom solution where you insert your rss feed. No matter which feed I insert google will not read the rss feed and comes up with an error.

Does anybody know a solution or workaround?

[dotvicky]

FWIW, I'm also having problems reading the rss feed in Outlook 2007 and as a feed into Livejournal Syndication so I think it *is* something at SmugMug end. :(

Cheers
Vicky

[Andy]

FWIW, I'm also having problems reading the rss feed in Outlook 2007 and as a feed into Livejournal Syndication so I think it *is* something at SmugMug end. :(

Cheers
Vicky
Handling in your other thread- double posting not necessary.

[Wyld]

I'm sorry :( But we're putting our feed out properly, according to our engineers. We'll keep trying!

Looks like they are grabbing the feed server-side as there's no request from the browser to smugmug (monitoring this via Fiddler)

Even so, could Google be looking for a crossdomain.xml or trying to honor some other permission granting policy (robots.txt, etc.) ?

[havanese]

Looks like they are grabbing the feed server-side as there's no request from the browser to smugmug (monitoring this via Fiddler)

Even so, could Google be looking for a crossdomain.xml or trying to honor some other permission granting policy (robots.txt, etc.) ?

Maybe your suggestions can get SM to look at the problem again. I gave up, but would still like to see this corrected so I could use SM on my profile

[Comfort]

Maybe your suggestions can get SM to look at the problem again. I gave up, but would still like to see this corrected so I could use SM on my profile

Since Smugmug seem to not want to fix this problem, if somebody can find out what might be the problem we could use Yahoo Pipes to fix the smugmug feeds up so it works.

[havanese]

Since Smugmug seem to not want to fix this problem, if somebody can find out what might be the problem we could use Yahoo Pipes to fix the smugmug feeds up so it works.

Google Profiles says that it sees the feed, but it will not display the photos like it does if you use flickr or any other photo sharing website.

[Andy]

Since Smugmug seem to not want to fix this problem, if somebody can find out what might be the problem we could use Yahoo Pipes to fix the smugmug feeds up so it works.
We'd love to fix it, our feeds work perfectly everywhere else, we don't know why Google is different.

[havanese]

We'd love to fix it, our feeds work perfectly everywhere else, we don't know why Google is different.

When you spoke to Google about it what was their answer?

[havanese]

This week in Google (http://twit.tv/twig2) a TWiT podcast discuss the Google Profile feature (toward the end of the podcast). Maybe as this feature gets more press we will get more of a following who want it to work with a SM RSS feed.

[jeffmincey]

We'd love to fix it, our feeds work perfectly everywhere else, we don't know why Google is different.

i've got the same issue. I'm place holding with flickr, waiting for you guys to figure this one out...

[havanese]

i've got the same issue. I'm place holding with flickr, waiting for you guys to figure this one out...

I think they are standing by the line that their RSS is fine and the problem is with Google.

I have gotten lots of comments for people who click on my Google profile (I use it as a sig line in email) and I can say a few of my closest friends have asked why I switched back to flickr from SM.

Then I have to explain I didn't ...

[BugSlayer]

Question for the SmugMug people - what was Google's answer? Maybe they're expecting something special or in a certain format so that pictures show up in the Google Profile.

I really don't want to start cross-posting my pictures all over the place again after I've tried to move everything into Smugmug and point everyone here...

[havanese]

I really don't want to start cross-posting my pictures all over the place again after I've tried to move everything into Smugmug and point everyone here...

The Google Profile is just a way to show people all your information (both in a public way and a private way). Having the RSS feed so that your pictures from SM show up is just a nice way of showing people who you are or what kind of pics you take...

I have asked what Google said to the Heroes on SM, but didn't get an answer. I'm not sure SM had actually contacted someone directly with Google to see what the issue is with the RSS syntax.

[MitchieMoo]

Yep, same thing here too. Heroes, not sure if this helps or not:

These feeds say "no photos in feed":
http://pics.iamski.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=nickname&Data=aplfu&format=atom10
http://pics.iamski.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=nicknameRecentPhotos&Data=aplfu&format=atom10
http://pics.iamski.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=nicknameRecentPhotos&Data=aplfu&format=rss200

These feeds say "photo feed error":
http://pics.iamski.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=nickname&Data=aplfu&format=rss200
http://pics.iamski.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=popularNickname&Data=aplfu&format=atom10
http://pics.iamski.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=popularNickname&Data=aplfu&format=rss200

Both contain data - it'd be lovely if we could get this figured out.

http://www.google.com/profiles/beardymac

[MitchieMoo]

I should also note, I've tried the feeds with and without my domain.

[havanese]

As more and more people use Google Profiles (for signatures in email, forums, etc) and with Google Wave, I am hoping that we can get SM to either correct the issue with Google or revamp how they do the RSS feeds.

[CrisJH]

Tried adding a smug mug feed today. Same problem still exists. I don't know if the problem is google side or smug mug side, or some combination of the two. But it's obviously a problem none of us end users can fix.

Sure hope this gets worked out.

[havanese]

I first reported this issue awhile back when Google Profiles was more of a novel thing with your Google account.

Now Profiles are going to really take off as people start using Google Buzz. Buzz will create your profile (if you don't have one already). So more people are going to start taking interest in their Google Profile.

I'm not sure why someone at SM can't contact Google and figure this issue out, it should be a easy fix as we are just discussing RSS feeds.

I'm having to have my profile point to my Flickr account.

[RogersDA]

One thing I noticed is that a flickr feed shows one photo size for each image in the feed. Smugmug, even when a size is specified in the feed, has links to each image size that the gallery has available.

I'm no feed expert, but I wonder if there is an issue with Google reading that SmugMug feed and parsing it to show the images in the profile.

[divydovy]

Doesn't seem likely that this is a big or complex problem: just need to output a feed in the right format.

Maybe it'd be possible to analyse the Flickr feed, then work out what fields are needed and create a Yahoo pipe that can translate the SM feeds into a Google compatible feed?

I'll get round to it eventually if no one else does...

divydovy

[billpaetzke]

I'm not sure why someone at SM can't contact Google and figure this issue out, it should be a easy fix as we are just discussing RSS feeds.

I asked Google support for help. Hopefully, this leads to the problem being fixed (SmugMug feeds in Google Profiles). http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=7e5141b4c85c2e06&hl=en

I became a new SmugMug user this weekend, and I would like to have my photostream on my Google Profile :)

[JohnnyJr]

I've been working on this problem for a year or so, too. I hate to have to link it to my Flickr account rather than my Smugmug account but seems to be the only choice until someone figures out an answer.

http://www.google.com/profiles/sissonphotography

[Ceazar77]

Have tried to do this as well to no avail. Added "<link href="http://www.google.com/profiles/juliusheilman" rel="me" type="text/html" />" to my header in hopes that might work but it's still not showing up.

Any more progress on talking with Google about this issue?

[Hylander]

Can we get any update on this? I was trying to add my feed today and it is still not working.

[Andy]

Can we get any update on this? I was trying to add my feed today and it is still not working.
Will update when we have something to say, sorry!

[aaronpriest]

Well, I just created a Google Profile today and discovered the same issues. Was hoping I'd find a resolution here. Just thought I'd add my name to the list. :-)

[havanese]

Well, I just created a Google Profile today and discovered the same issues. Was hoping I'd find a resolution here. Just thought I'd add my name to the list. :-)

A friend of mine who also uses SM suggested that we say one of the following to get it bumped up the request queue.

1. Ask S. Jobs to request it.
2. Tell them it's really called iprofile.
3. Tell it it looks awesome on the ipad.

I think I'll just request that they look at it again and try to get someone at Google to response to why it doesn't work with an RSS feed that obviously works in other Google products (Google Reader for one).

[Andy]

A friend of mine who also uses SM suggested that we say one of the following to get it bumped up the request queue.

1. Ask S. Jobs to request it.
2. Tell them it's really called iprofile.
3. Tell it it looks awesome on the ipad.

I think I'll just request that they look at it again and try to get someone at Google to response to why it doesn't work with an RSS feed that obviously works in other Google products (Google Reader for one).
We're trying. We really are. We need assistance from Google. Our feeds are standard and they should just work there. We don't know why Google is rejecting.

[havanese]

We're trying. We really are. We need assistance from Google. Our feeds are standard and they should just work there. We don't know why Google is rejecting.

Thanks Andy... is there somewhere we can email/post/twitter/call to help the process? I was just assuming that coming from a company like SM would get results better than me yelling at Google.

[Andy]

Thanks Andy... is there somewhere we can email/post/twitter/call to help the process? I was just assuming that coming from a company like SM would get results better than me yelling at Google.

On the contrary- you and all the posters here should be emailing and tweeting at Google, of course we'll do our part, too.

[RogersDA]

On the contrary- you and all the posters here should be emailing and tweeting at Google, of course we'll do our part, too.Saw Baldy's tweet on this. Did they respond?

[Andy]

Saw Baldy's tweet on this. Did they respond?

Sorry, I have no idea, I see a zillion tweets a day and missed that one....

[JoeG]

If you're on twitter, @ them with the link to this thread and hope enough of us do so to garner a response.

http://twitter.com/joegearhart/status/18733049668

Please @Google Please fix this.... http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=128299

[havanese]

Sorry, I have no idea, I see a zillion tweets a day and missed that one....

See this post on Buzz by Don (http://www.google.com/buzz/onethumb/d7MzrQ7h2Uk/Wishing-Google-Buzz-Google-Profiles-worked)

Maybe we will see a resolution to this soon.

[RogersDA]

It's is working sporadically now. I used the boxee feed and got images in my profile.

http://www.google.com/profiles/greyleafphoto#about

The above will eventually have a different link to some better images.

http://www.greyleafphoto.com/photos/937576847_tBS8J-M.jpg

[Andy]

It's is working sporadically now. I used the boxee feed and got images in my profile.

http://www.google.com/profiles/greyleafphoto#about

The above will eventually have a different link to some better images.

http://www.greyleafphoto.com/photos/937576847_tBS8J-M.jpg

Crazy that they don't support the standard RSS feed. I used Boxee feed from Share>get a link on my SmugMug page and it works great. Thanks for the tip!

[RogersDA]

Crazy that they don't support the standard RSS feed. I used Boxee feed from Share>get a link on my SmugMug page and it works great. Thanks for the tip!

But - it has since failed with that same feed link. Can you check my profile to see if you see the photos, Andy?

[RogersDA]

I will also say that the Create A Feed Wizard does not allow for creating a boxee feed - only RSS, Atom, and Google Maps.

I --should-- be able to change the format=RSS200 to format=boxee, but others may not know to do that.

Also - I really have no idea of the differences between the various feeds. :huh:D

[havanese]

I don't see your pictures David...

[Andy]

I don't see your pictures David...

http://www.google.com/profiles/awilliamsny

[havanese]

I did the boxee feed..lets see how long it will last...it's working as of right now

http://www.google.com/profiles/randypollock

[havanese]

http://www.google.com/profiles/awilliamsny

I see yours Andy, I think David's was working then it stopped for some reason

[RogersDA]

...I think David's was working then it stopped for some reason:dunno:dunno:dunno:dunno I am so irrked. :scratch:scratch:scratch

[RogersDA]

O.k.
Some time ago I added my recent gallery RSS feed to Mac Mail. I can see a thumbnail of the recent photos in Mac Mail.

So I added the boxee feed for a gallery to Mac Mail. The feed takes, but the images (thumbnails) are not showing in Mac Mail.

The gallery has external links on, and share enabled.

[RogersDA]

Picked a new gallery and used that boxee feed. Now all seems good again.

[havanese]

Yeah it's up and down

The main points here

1. From the buzz conversation they know of some bugs
2. Main RSS feeds at SM should work but don't
3. Boxee link feeds sometimes work which isn't the answer we need
4. Google guys will hopefully get back to us next week with a solution

Good to see some movement on this after such a long time...I forgot when I first posted about this

[Andy]

3. Boxee link feeds sometimes work which isn't the answer we need

Working in all browsers for me. http://google.com/profiles/awilliamsny

[havanese]

Working in all browsers for me. http://google.com/profiles/awilliamsny

Yes it does for me too...I was just saying that sometimes when you bring it up the pics are not there.

[Andy]

Yes it does for me too...I was just saying that sometimes when you bring it up the pics are not there.

Can you tell me if it's not working? I can't see any reason why the feed wouldn't work.

[havanese]

Can you tell me if it's not working? I can't see any reason why the feed wouldn't work.

Yes the next time I check it and it doesn't work I'll grab a capture and post it.

[RogersDA]

I created a temp gallery to try out the boxee feed in Google Profile.

I used this feed URL:
http://www.greyleafphoto.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=8696379_4hCtf&format=boxee

It worked as I posted above. Then, I changed the feed URL to another gallery (my flora gallery). This new feed didn't work, perhaps because external links were off. So, I changed it back to the above feed URL. When I did this the above feed URL would be found - but the photos would not display again. Ever.

So I enabled external links for the flora gallery, and then copied it's feed URL to my Google Profile. Wow - it worked.
http://www.greyleafphoto.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=4413036_8FS3M&format=boxee

So - I tried the original feed URL again. It still does not work (Google finds it - but the photos will not be displayed). I copied the flora feed URL, and now it does not work (Google finds it - but the photos will not be displayed).

I have tried everything - deleting the feeds, deleting the photos (in the Google Profile). Alas, the above two feeds will not work.

It seems that Google is flagging the feeds in some manner to keep them from being reused if you delete them from your profile.

:scratch:dunno:scratch:dunno

[RogersDA]

Today I re-copied one of the older boxee feeds. Rather than get the No Photos in Feed error message I get this:

Oops. We couldn't retrieve your photos. Please try again in a few minutes.

Maybe Google is getting close to fixing something?

http://www.greyleafphoto.com/photos/949359845_wyUfU-M.jpg

[WinsomeWorks]

I created a temp gallery to try out the boxee feed in Google Profile....... It still does not work (Google finds it - but the photos will not be displayed). I copied the flora feed URL, and now it does not work (Google finds it - but the photos will not be displayed).

I have tried everything - deleting the feeds, deleting the photos (in the Google Profile). Alas, the above two feeds will not work.

It seems that Google is flagging the feeds in some manner to keep them from being reused if you delete them from your profile.

:scratch:dunno:scratch:dunno I wish I'd have read this more thoroughly before I tried adding photos to my Google Profile. I seem to have a similar problem. Currently I can't get any feeds to work. I tried RSS , Atom, Boxee, etc. I don't know what any of these things are, exactly (or I mean, I don't understand the workings of them) but the only one that gave a glimmer of hope was Boxee. I used the link I found for Boxee within my "Share> Get a Link" button. I tried using it within my Portfolio Gallery. First, I had no problem... I copied the Boxee link & it found the feed & displayed the photos. However, it only displayed 15 or so, & I thought there would be some way to get more photos to show. (I don't know how it chose those particular 10 photos from the gallery) So I stupidly deleted the link from my profile. When I tried copying & pasting it again, it appeared to find the feed but now won't display any photos. Now I see that some others of you are unable to get photos to display after deleting a link. Shucks. Any updates here, or anything I can try? ETA: Ahhh, now I see that those photos which WERE displaying earlier were the 20 photos from page one of my gallery, probably because that was the page I was on when I copied the Boxee feed link. Here's my Portfolio gallery link: http://www.winsomeworks.com/Portfolio/AnnaLisaYoder-PhotoFavorites/6704667_LAjfv#268304062_UN9w4

[Andy]

I wish I'd have read


Hi. I want to help. In order to do that, I'd really need to see your google profile link.

[WinsomeWorks]

Hi. I want to help. In order to do that, I'd really need to see your google profile link. Sorry, Andy-- I thought anyone could just see it if they searched & didn't realize I needed to give a link. But just now when I was trying to even find it myself, I had no idea how to find it. I don't even know how I found it before. At this point, I'm trying to figure out what the point of it is anyway if no one can find it easily?? Anyway, I think this is it: http://www.google.com/profiles/AnnaLisaYoderWinsomeWorks
(http://www.google.com/profiles/AnnaLisaYoderWinsomeWorks)

[Andy]

Sorry, Andy-- I thought anyone could just see it if they searched & didn't realize I needed to give a link. But just now when I was trying to even find it myself, I had no idea how to find it. I don't even know how I found it before. At this point, I'm trying to figure out what the point of it is anyway if no one can find it easily?? Anyway, I think this is it: http://www.google.com/profiles/AnnaLisaYoderWinsomeWorks
(http://www.google.com/profiles/AnnaLisaYoderWinsomeWorks)

Please put that boxee feed back, thanks.

Works perfectly here http://www.google.com/profiles/awilliamsny

[WinsomeWorks]

Please put that boxee feed back, thanks.

Works perfectly here http://www.google.com/profiles/awilliamsny Andy, the Boxee feed is still there. I never removed it. I double-checked to be sure it was there. Yes, I can see yours fine. The problem is evidently what someone reported earlier.... that if you remove it and then try to install again, it won't show. Perhaps Google is doing something to block it the second time 'round? If I click on the "edit photos" link, I can see that this is the URL that I have in the URL box: http://www.winsomeworks.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=6704667_LAjfv&format=boxee

[WinsomeWorks]

Any ideas? Mine still is not working. I even tried "deleting photos" to see if it would be like starting over, but still nothing. the Boxee feed line is still there, btw. Just to let you know, I did send a complaint message to Google through the Help message box they have. I also put a message on their suggestions-kind-of-forum . If lots of others are having this problem, I hope you'll do the same. But as someone else said, if this is a Google problem & SmugMug has standard feeds, I think it would be much more helpful if someone high up in the Smug heirarchy would be talking to Google about this. It's frustrating that the standard feeds don't work. And even with Boxee (on yours as well, Andy) only images from what I presume is the first page of your gallery seem to show. Shouldn't more be showing? [ETA: ohhh, I see Andy's out for a fun week of shooting! This can wait, obviously! Hope you're having a blast, Andy!]

[WinsomeWorks]

Suggestions anyone? Is someone with clout communicating with Google about this?

[WinsomeWorks]

I would still like to have some help for this. If no one has any ideas, I would at least like to know that SmugMug higher-ups are communicating with Google over this. I still have the boxee feed there, and posted my link down below. So it should be working, but it's not. Has anyone else had progress? Andy, I hope you read the post(s) from me & others that mentioned that the issue seems connected to getting rid of & then trying to replace your feed.

[Andy]

I would still like to have some help for this. If no one has any ideas, I would at least like to know that SmugMug higher-ups are communicating with Google over this. I still have the boxee feed there, and posted my link down below. So it should be working, but it's not. Has anyone else had progress? Andy, I hope you read the post(s) from me & others that mentioned that the issue seems connected to getting rid of & then trying to replace your feed.

I don't know what to say :( It works here http://www.google.com/profiles/awilliamsny and I use the very same Boxee feed as you're trying.

[RogersDA]

Yeah Andy - but have you ever deleted that boxee feed and replaced with something else, then gone back to the original boxee feed?

[Andy]

We'll keep trying. But Google clearly isn't doing the right thing here. Our feeds just work. Except in google profiles.

[RogersDA]

...But Google clearly isn't doing the right thing here. Our feeds just work. Except in google profiles.Agreed - and they admitted as much in Baldy's buzz post. I think this is so low on Google's radar that it's not worth it to them to dedicate any resources to it. No matter - I killed my profile. Not worth it.

[WinsomeWorks]

We'll keep trying. But Google clearly isn't doing the right thing here. Our feeds just work. Except in google profiles. He's asking if you personally have ever deleted your feed & then tried to have it work again. I think that if someone takes this up with Google, it would be very important for them to have that info... that trying to do it a second time is when it doesn't work (and also that our regular feeds have never worked). It's already been a long time since that Buzz conversation that Havanese reported this way in an earlier post:

".....The main points here

1. From the buzz conversation they know of some bugs
2. Main RSS feeds at SM should work but don't
3. Boxee link feeds sometimes work which isn't the answer we need
4. Google guys will hopefully get back to us next week with a solution...."

And obviously Google did not get back to us "next week" with any solutions.

[Andy]

He's asking if you personally have ever deleted your feed & then tried to have it work again. I think that if someone takes this up with Google, it would be very important for them to have that info... that trying to do it a second time is when it doesn't work (and also that our regular feeds have never worked). It's already been a long time since that Buzz conversation that Havanese reported this way in an earlier post:

".....The main points here

1. From the buzz conversation they know of some bugs
2. Main RSS feeds at SM should work but don't
3. Boxee link feeds sometimes work which isn't the answer we need
4. Google guys will hopefully get back to us next week with a solution...."

And obviously Google did not get back to us "next week" with any solutions.

Hi Anna Lisa - I did that. Go check my profile. It's broken now. We can keep trying at Google but guess what :D YOU should, too! Thanks.

[WinsomeWorks]

Hi Anna Lisa - I did that. Go check my profile. It's broken now. We can keep trying at Google but guess what :D YOU should, too! Thanks. Oh crap. That's a pain, Andy. Well, I guess it confirms what we thought. If you see my post #85 here in this thread, you'll see I already did "take it up" with Google, in the only way I saw to do so. I also recommended that others chime in as well. But as I said, it's just a forum, and I don't see any other place to bring it up. I highly doubt one of us paeons is going to get anywhere with them. You guys at the top would have a lot more leverage. I still don't really know who ever sees those profiles anyway. Most people don't even realize they exist. You didn't know how to find mine w/o the link, and I wouldn't have known how to find yours. It's kinda weird. I only did it because someone told me to. :D

[Andy]

Oh crap. That's a pain, Andy. Well, I guess it confirms what we thought. If you see my post #85 here in this thread, you'll see I already did "take it up" with Google, in the only way I saw to do so. I also recommended that others chime in as well. But as I said, it's just a forum, and I don't see any other place to bring it up. I highly doubt one of us paeons is going to get anywhere with them. You guys at the top would have a lot more leverage. I still don't really know who ever sees those profiles anyway. Most people don't even realize they exist. You didn't know how to find mine w/o the link, and I wouldn't have known how to find yours. It's kinda weird. I only did it because someone told me to. :D

We keep trying: http://twitter.com/awilliamsny/status/22624435445

You can do the same! Tweet them @googleprofiles on Twitter

[WinsomeWorks]

We keep trying: http://twitter.com/awilliamsny/status/22624435445

You can do the same! Tweet them @googleprofiles on Twitter Sorry, I don't tweet, so far. Can't see myself getting too into that. But I hope others will.

[Andy]

Sorry, I don't tweet, so far. Can't see myself getting too into that. But I hope others will.

Big mistake.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/marketing-online

http://cdn.smugmug.com/img/help/marketing-online/pro-marketing.jpg


You're a pro and you sell your work. Twitter is a big piece of online marketing, and Free & easy to do. It's also a great way to get in touch with people at companies.

Just do it.

[Grahamm]

From SmugMug: Goto Share | Get a Link
Feed Links tab | Click "Copy" next to Boxee.
Paste this URL in your Google Profile Photo Feed.

Graham

[WinsomeWorks]

From SmugMug: Goto Share | Get a Link
Feed Links tab | Click "Copy" next to Boxee.
Paste this URL in your Google Profile Photo Feed.

Graham Graham, the problem has come in when we already had a feed, then deleted it for any reason. After that, it's been impossible to re-install it. I don't think initial installation was a problem anymore. But trying to re-install it was. I had completely forgotten about it though, and consequently haven't tried for a long long time to re-install it. I still have never really figured out what use there is for Google profiles. I've never actually witnessed anyone else using them for anything, nor do I know how to find someone else's profile or why I'd want to bother.