I’ve been looking around for a way to get RSS feeds and del.icio.us bookmarks to display within Backpack pages and I’ve finally found one. Google Mashups [ http://code.google.com/gme/ ] allow you to create a whole range of applications (calendars, RSS feed readers, forms, tabbed sub-pages!, etc, etc) that can be embedded within Backpack notes. Because the pages are hosted by Google you don’t have to worry about executing any javascript, which seems to be the main limiting factor with embedding code with Backpack pages. Once you have created a page on the Google Mashup site you can wrap it in an iFrame within a note on Backpack and the page is rendered as the Backpack page is loaded.

Looks great but it’s in a closed beta :(

Ok….I requested access to the beta and got accepted within a few minutes, so maybe it’s not so closed….looking forward to checking this out as I’ve been wanting to incorporate RSS & del.icio.us feeds for a while…..

This is very cool, but I haven’t been able to get Google Mashups to respect a font-family css style, so everything is displaying on my backpack page in Arial :(

you can also try something a bit more simple – add a note, and insert this code to display a table of 10 latest bookmarks (change the url to include your del.icio.us username):