Planet illogica's Unique Linked Accounts Feature Allows You to Put All the "You"s in One Place

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You can pull in your tweets to your activity feed

Planet illogica's Unique "Linked Accounts" Feature
Our "Linked Accounts" feature pulls in information that you are already sharing on other social networking sites, such as Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr or any sorts of feeds, and displays them nicely on your Pi profile activity feed; this allows all the other Pi residents and any of our site's visitors to see what you've been doing on the web. Planet illogica's goal is to conveniently unite what's important to you all in one place. Your activity feed will show not only on your profile, but also on the private feeds of your Pi Connections (the people that you've connected with on Pi).

Linking up
While linking Flickr and Twitter accounts to your Pi profile self explanatory, the Tumblr and Feed linking may not be as intuitive. To connect your Tumblr account you need to know your username or that of whoever's Tumblr site you're linking to. The structure of Tumblr's link goes as follows: http://username.tumblr.com/ . Just paste the "username" part of the url into the Tumblr settings and you're good to go.
 

The feed however, is a little bit more complicated. Nearly every website that updates their content has a feed. "Feeds permit instant distribution of content and the ability to make it "subscribable."Subscribing to feeds makes it possible to review a large amount of online content in a very short time. "-Google 

This is how you'd put your links in, minus the "Wordpress: and Blogger:" which are displayed as demonstration
Note: What you would put in the feed box would JUST be the url, by itself; you do NOT need the platform in which the site was built on (e.g. WordPress, Blogger)

Finding the feed varies depending on the site. On popular blogging sites such as Wordpress and Blogger, the format goes as follows: 
WordPress: http://www.sampleurl.org/feed 
Blogger: http://www.sampleurl.org/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss 

Most of the blogs from Wordpress just require a "/feed" to be added at the end of the url, while Blogger requires a "/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" at the end. Another thing to look for is the RSS icon. You may recognize it if you're not already familiar with it. It's usually an orange square with a wave of patterns that symbolize a broadcast. If a site has the icon, click it and copy the url at the top of the page and paste it into the "FEED URL" box under Linked Accounts.

If all else fails when looking for the rss feed, there is another alternative for Firefox users. When using the latest version of Firefox, you may need to right click on the very top bar to enable the "Menu Bar". Once that is enabled, click "Tools" then select "Page Info" from the drop down. A pop-up should appear shortly with some information about the site you're on. Click the tab that says "Feeds" with the RSS logo and use the url for RSS. Below are some screen captures to help you understand the process just mentioned.

This is how to activate the menu bar to get to the "Tools" section of Firefox  After you expand the "Tools" menu, click on Page info and a pop up will appear

The popup that appears after you select "Page Info" from the "Tools" drop-down
This is the popup that appears after you select "Page Info" from the "Tools" drop-down. Select feeds and the url to the feeds will display within the box within the popup.