Quick and dirty way to grab the users status messages without having to go through the twitter api (not having to authenticate that is). You can grab the RSS feed and indicate the number of statuses returned with the count param. I wrote this function for...

I added the RSS Graffiti application to my Facebook account. It's a nifty app that lets you add any valid Rss/Atom feed to your profile (includes publishing to your wall) and to your pages.

I recently watched a RailsCasts episode (http://railscasts.com/episodes/168-feed-parsing) on parsing and persisting RSS feeds using Feedzirra. It took a little setting up on Ubuntu because it relies on some libraries that aren't included with Ubuntu > 8. ...