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Re: Superfeedr Blog : PubSubHubbub for Everybody

smilbandit — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:34:34 -0000

Now that I reread it I see where I made an assumption. I thought by subscribing I would be getting a firehose of updates from the wordpress or identica of all public posts not just a specific publishers posts. for the "for profit" version could the publisher part be a custom source and not rss or atom?

Re: Superfeedr Blog : PubSubHubbub for Everybody

smilbandit — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:20:33 -0000

Excellent. I'd love to see one based on Google Reader shares.

Re: Superfeedr Blog : RSSCloud and PubSubHubbub

smilbandit — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:09:17 -0000

Thanks. I've been pushing off writing code for RSSCloud for awhile now, glad to see that I don't have to. Superfeedr your my Hero.

Re: I need a Domain Name Server with a REST interface (Scripting News)

smilbandit — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:02:02 -0000

sounds like you are looking for a dynadns.org server with REST update.

Re: Google Reader Needs Filters

smilbandit — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:23:07 -0000

I've been building my own reader that has some very different features then most out there. I blog slowly about it at tubejumper.com and I put out some screenshots a year ago, http://www.flickr.com/photos/26597120@N00/sets/...
This is just a toy for me as a test bed for consuming information, there isn't a release and probably never will be.

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Getting Stated with PubSubHubbub

smilbandit — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:38:57 -0000

Nice, though I wish this was out two weeks ago when I started fiddling with pubsubhubbub.

Re: RSS Is Alive And Well

smilbandit — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:49:37 -0000

Funny thing is that most topics are already aggregated within the rss feeds using the category element. It's just that the "readers" are not using that data for article presentation. Sure just using the category element isn't going to have a great signal to noise ratio but if you've followed the "it’s all about the data not the algorithm" meme alot of the data is already there. (hint: check out tagged feeds at http://punchingsoup.com/)

Re: RSS Is Alive And Well

smilbandit — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:36:36 -0000

I also agree about the readers. I've been using my own for two years now and I would have thought the larger readers would have added similar features as I have, but nothing really.

Re: RSS is how the news flows (Scripting News)

smilbandit — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:05:22 -0000

2. or maybe a feed that finds the new stuff for you.
5. as a news junkie and a rss reader coder I totally agree. and remove the articles I didn't bother reading after a certain customizable age.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/08/google-reader-wants-me-to-send-my.html

smilbandit — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:46:56 -0000

I think it would be nice if you could set a mark all read older than X per feed and not have to worry about it. There are a number of feeds I read that I only care about the current news.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/video-demo-how-to-use-lazyfeed-for-real.html

smilbandit — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:02:48 -0000

I've been reading feeds by tags for over a year. I found it to be a much better way to consume RSS then the standard per feed way. I'm pretty excited about lazyfeed and I truly hope they do very well because if they do others will mimic and maybe one day I can stop maintaining my own rss feed reader project.

Btw can i get an invite? I'm smilbandit on every site.

Re: louisgray.com: Should RSS be Jettisoned On the Information Journey?

smilbandit — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:37:33 -0000

I built my own reader because I wanted to consume feeds my own way rather then stringing together a bunch of services. I took the engine and built a little app around it at http://punchingsoup.com.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Overload: Don't Complain, Do Something About It

smilbandit — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:33:22 -0000

I've been working with it but so far sharing doesn't work correctly yet, and I've been kinda holding off for an official reader api. With the resent uncertainty of the google products and how much development reader may or may not get, I think i'm going to just go with plan b. In plan b I'll just setup a second wordpress blog or use tumblr and use the xmlrpc interface to create a share feed.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Overload: Don't Complain, Do Something About It

smilbandit — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:11:29 -0000

Here's how I did something about my RSS overload, http://tubejumper.com. Of course not everyone has the time or ability to build their own rss reader but thought i'd share.

Re: Is Your Feed Reader Becoming Boring?

smilbandit — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:49:11 -0000

I hated getting several copies of the same post across blogs especially because it was pretty much the same article. It'd be nice if feed readers got some techmeme like linking. That way you could set an entire linked set as read.

Re: Prioritizing and Organizing Feeds in Google Reader

smilbandit — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:08:14 -0000

I used Newsgator for a long while but started to get overwhelmed and annoyed at reading the same news across multiple feeds. So, I built my own and annotated the development on this blog, http://www.tubejumper.com/. The app isn't pretty but I'm not a graphics person, just a coder. I've been wanting to move what i've built to python/php/mysql and open source it but just haven't had the time.

Re: Prioritizing and Organizing Feeds in Google Reader

smilbandit — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:38:38 -0000

What google reader really needs is something to either make use of an rss items categories as tags or some form of saveable search feature. That way you can create a folder that has all the items about one topic no matter what feed it's from. I've been dinking around with this for a few years and it works out great for me.

Re: Twitter in Gmail will further distract me from using it for email

smilbandit — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:56:19 -0000

Does the id and password pass through twittergadgets servers or is it direct to twitter.com?

Re: Google’s campus as seen from the Google satellite

smilbandit — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:30:44 -0000

I can't tell if this is someone on a bike or someone laying down in the parking lot.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&...

Re: rizzn's personal blog: Finished With My RSS Reorg

smilbandit — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:45:30 -0000

I'm still figuring out if I even want to turn it into a product, probably pieces of it will be part of other things I try. I have been thinking of taking the tag view piece and making a site that provides feeds based on categories/tags.

Re: A Windows app to shut down Apache? (Scripting News)

smilbandit — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:31:00 -0000

Are you running apache as a service under windows? If apache starts up after a system reboot then it's running as a service. So then you can start and stop any service with "net start [service]" or "net stop [service]". You can also set up a service to restart upon a failure or run a command line program on the first failure and restart if a second failure happens. I don't know if you've seen this blog(s), http://port25.technet.com/, it's a site for the open source community at microsoft.

Re: rizzn's personal blog: Finished With My RSS Reorg

smilbandit — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:54:34 -0000

Mark, I'd be interested in hearing what you have to say about a small project i've been working on for myself. It's an rss reader but with a few additional ways of displaying the articles in feeds.
Here's a screenshot set I put together recently, http://flickr.com/photos/26597120@N00/sets/7215...

Re: We need to amend the US Constitution - RussellBeattie.com

smilbandit — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:38:29 -0000

Extension sounds good, how about electing a president for a potential 10 year term. Then every 2 years along with local elections and props, put in a Confidence vote. If the Confidence in the president isn't greater then X percent then in two years it can be put to popular a vote but the sitting president can't run again. Weird stuff really. Personally my two big pet peeves about the system is that I really only have two choices in a president and that my third choice is either to effectivly or actually not vote. The next is that we find out about the cabinet selections only after the election, i'd really like to see these selections between the primaries and the election. Knowing who the president will be consulting with is pretty important.

Re: Should a computer science degree require learning C ?

smilbandit — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:52:40 -0000

You have to have some practical experience to apply abstraction to. Most science classes have a lab as well as lecture. I see your point about fighting mechanics, maybe Logo would be a better start. C has become the default because it's familiar to the teachers which makes grading easier when you have a standard. I never got a chance to go to college, but the community college near me has a C and Java track for the Computer Science degree.

Re: Near Field Communications is Amazing! - RussellBeattie.com

smilbandit — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:27:09 -0000

I've been waiting for NFC for the last couple years. I see trials pop up from time to time, mostly banks using passive NFC in bank cards. It's got some great potential, and I'm excited Nokia is doing something with it. Personally I can't until they can get a decent charge going across the field so I can wirelessly charge my phone.