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A few weeks ago, we turned the switch to make the RSS feeds for shouts publicly available. While we have a few people using them for something interesting, the rest of you slackers haven’t done squat with them. Here are a couple of ideas to get you started.

• FriendFeed: Add your shouts to your FriendFeed account using the generic RSS feed.
• Widgets: Put a cool widget on your blog with your most recent shouts.
• Life streaming: Add your RSS feed to the rest of your life stream.
• RSS Reader: Add certain people to your RSS reader for more close tracking.
• Yahoo Pipes Filtering: Or use your favorite tool to do some cool filtering on RSS feeds.

OK, enough slacking … I dare you (double dog dare you even) to come up with ideas more awesome than the ones here. How are you planning to use the public RSS feeds to do something cool?

Now that the RSS feeds for Shizzow are public, we would love to have a widget that takes an RSS feed from Shizzow and makes it look awesome in a blog sidebar. Yes, yes, we know this isn’t hard to do, but would you rather have us spend an hour on a widget or spend an hour working on SMS support and m.shizzow.com?

So here’s the deal:

• Email the code for your widget and a URL where we can see it in action to dawn at shizzow.com with the subject: “awesome contest entry” before midnight on 9/13.
• The Shizzow team will make an entirely subjective judgment call to pick the one we like the most.
• We will buy the winner a drink at Beer and Blog or a similar tech event here in Portland.

We don’t really know exactly what we want, so there are no specs for the widget. Use your best judgment to come up with something cool.

We will post the code for the widget on the Shizzow site for anyone to use while giving credit to the original author. In other words, you are doing this for fame and glory.