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Previously I had bought a component from Foobla which is the Social Submit. From my experience with the quality of Foobla’s products I bought this component for RSS Feed about 6 months ago.

In my research in Joomla; I have tested most of Joomla components both on J 1.5 and J 1.7 and Foobla is among my top 3 Developers for Reliable Joomla products and outstanding Support.

Because of the qualities this product offers and the unique features it has, I decided to add this transparent review not just to say thank you to Foobla, but to also allow excellent products to stand out from the crowed.

I do believe I’m not in the business of recommending products, but I am an advocate of sharing experience.

Here are the elements for this REVIEW:

- A full evaluation of the extension:
I have bought this component with all of its plugins, internal and external ones. It is simply excellent. It works and delivers its purpose.
As Joomla 1.7 emerged, Foobla did accommodate it with a new release. However, there were some functions not fully explored such as Multilingual Support for the Multi-Menu system, and guess what! As soon as expressed my interest to have those function, a day later it was made on my live site and a new archive was issued including the new updates as a core release.
The nice thing about this component is the fact that gives you so many functionalities, whiter you want to have your RSS XML on your site, or sent via emails, or even to integrate with Feedburner. In fact, it does all of that and it integrates just about all of what you have installed in the backend.

- Ease of usage and deployment:
Nothing much, just install it through the backend, and then go the obRSS Control Panel. Once there, just add a new feed, and you are up and running in 1 minute. If you are sophisticated, you can configure various sections, and various categories. If you have CCK, you can integrate that in as well. If you think it is difficult, email them, I am sure they would be happy to do it for you!

- Level of support received:
The support is the best support I have seen, and is genuine. Sometimes you are answered within hours, and if not, next-day you get your support depending on location and time variance!. So they are really good compared to others.

- Courtesy and Honesty:
They are very decent team, who appreciates feedback!

- Pros & Cons of the extension and its performance:
The extension is really good, and I believe it the best one out there. I had inquired about having a plugin for a CCK I have, and they made it for me. After that plugin, the CCK developer released a new framework, and I contacted Foobla, they developed a plugin again, and sent to me within 4 days.

- Purpose of using the extension:
I use this extension to update other networks of our web updates and new items. Nice broadcasting to keep everyone everywhere well informed. I also have it emails those broadcast, so I am 360. Another unique feature is that the component has a frontend so you can subscribe using Feed Readers. This is one great product.

- Level of difficulty:
Not difficult at all, it is extremely easy.

This is the best money spent, and I truly recommend it to everyone. You do not just get the best RSS component; you get Foobla as your support.

Thank you Thong and Kha.
Thank you Foobla, and keep up the good work!

This is simply a transparent review. I am not in the business of recommending products, bu I do believe in sharing knowledge.

Here are the elements:

- A full evaluation of the extension:
I have bought this component with all of its plugins, internal and External ones. It is simply excellent. It works and deliver its purpose.

I do understand why there aren't many reviews here, it is because you have to buy it to able to access it. From what I have seen, it broadcasts everything as soon as it is made.

The nice thing in it is that you can configure it to broadcast as you like, "i.e. New items, modified items."

It has built in functions to include URL shortener.

Ease of usage and deployment:
All you need is make you api's across those you want to broadcast to, and your in business. after I bought by a couple of days, I was given an upgrade for one of the plugins. I do believe they are a determined team.

Level of support received:
The support is decent, and genuine. sometimes you are answered within hours, and if not, next-day you get your support depending on location and time variance!. So they are really good compared to others.

- Courtesy and Honesty:
They are very decent team.

- Pros & Cons of the extension and its performance:
The extension is really good, and I believe it the best one out there. I had inquired about having a plugin for JoomFish, I was told it is coming out soon; so they are developing more than what they have already.

Purpose of using the extension:
I use this extension to update other social networks of our web updates and new items. Nice broadcasting to keep everyone everywhere well informed.


Level of difficulty:
Not difficult at all, It is extremely easy.


This is the best money spent, and I truly recommend it to everyone. I am going to buy other products from those guys as have seen their level of quality.

Thank you Foobla team, and keep up the good work!