Notes"Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download."Unfurl
Notes"For the last few years or so, I've been fortunate enough to have my day job involve thinking critically about reading feeds. As a result, I've been musing about first principles."FeedUnfurl
Notes"What's Snackr? It's an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window. "Unfurl
Notes"Google Reader is ugly, but it works great as an online RSS newsreader. So what if I used Fluid.app to create a standalone Mac app and replace my desktop newsreader."Unfurl
Notes"Over the past couple of years, I eventually got to the point where I would have something like 200-odd feeds subscribed and yet only 60 or so new items a day – the magic resided in a companion script that did Bayesian classification of that veritable fFeedUnfurl
Notes"A few weeks ago I was bitching to Miker and Diego about Gregarious, the PHP based news reader we use and how insane it is to try to customize. It's one of those "classic" PHP apps which is just written by monkeys."Unfurl
Notes"For Firefox 2, only the application/vnd.mozilla.maybe.feed, application/atom+xml, and application/rss+xml MIME types are supported. All values have the same effect, and the registered handler will receive feeds in all Atom and RSS versions."Unfurl
Notes"The goal is to create an XML-RPC interface for aggregators, with a first implementation for the NewsRiver aggregator that's an add-on for the OPML Editor. "Unfurl
Notes"Well, that was fast. Google Gears hasn't even been announced yet, and already Google Reader users can install it and wallow in the splendor that is offline reading."Unfurl
Notes"With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs"Unfurl
Notes"With the overwhelming majority of our content available in one syndicated form or another, I can see an increasing demand for Pipes style filtering and recombination. I doubt, in other words, that this particular business problem is the last one I’ll sUnfurl
Notes"I’ve mocked up my own little life stream, tracking my Twitter, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Last.fm, and blog posts. It’s a quick’n’dirty script that isn’t doing any caching."Unfurl
Notes"These kinds of bots -- attention filters, perhaps, or focus assistants -- are likely to become important parts of how we handle our daily lives."Unfurl
Notes"The reason why it's such a good fit is that Twitter is a river, I saw that immediately. It's what I've been preaching. They got a lot of people to think in terms of River of News. So of course I'm going to jump on that bandwagon. I'll take victory howeveUnfurl
NotesAmen: "I think the problem with browser-based RSS software is that the people who write the apps aren't news junkies. If they were, they could, with much less effort, create something far more powerful and far more usable."Unfurl
Notes"There’s two separate styles of reading that I notice I’m in. One is a “grazing” style of reading where I’m just looking at the item and doing some quick pattern recognition on it."Unfurl
Notes"Try this one out. Imagine you're fishing, and there was some nerd on the other side of the river, shouting at you, the number of fish that went by that you didn't catch. How long before you'd want to kill the nerd??"Unfurl
Notes"A new framework is included for publishing and subscribing to RSS and Atom feeds, including complete RSS parsing and generation. Local feeds can be shared over Bonjour zero-configuration sharing and discovery."Unfurl
Notes"I just noticed last week that some of the online web aggregators (such as bloglines, newsgator online, live journal, etc) will send the number of subscribers in their HTTP user agent."Unfurl
Notes"Always know what’s happening around the world with News Reader, the new Dashboard widget that lets you easily view RSS news from any number of sources in a single widget."Unfurl
Notes"However, were there a platform that gave me support for building a vertical meme tracker, that allowed me to import seed OPML files and define the HTML/CSS of my page then publish a display of hot topics as identified by rules I specify, that made it asUnfurl
Notes"I'm becoming increasingly convinced that extending (human-readable) content-oriented approach is the quickest path to a more generalised data-oriented (i.e. Semantic) web."Unfurl
Notes"But none of that means that I can't find enough users for my aggregator, and you for yours, to be able to continue development and influence the market, because we don't have to convince the editors of PC Mag and PC Week that our products matter. ... NowUnfurl
Notes"The goal is to create an XML-RPC interface for aggregators, with a first implementation for the NewsRiver aggregator that's an add-on for the OPML Editor."Unfurl
Notes"Instead of reading their individual selections of RSS feeds privately, everyone should be encouraged to publish those aggregated feeds on the Web."Unfurl
Full text in RSS? (Scripting News)
massless.org - Four Firsts for Feeds
Snackr: an RSS ticker for Windows/Mac/Linux built using Adobe AIR and Flex.
FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed is officially launching
The Tao of Mac - An update on my RSS setup