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Dave Winer: At the end of 2005, why am I working on an aggregator? You can download newsRiver.root here. Drop it into your OPML editor, and you'll have a full featured River of News style RSS aggregator right in the app. Amyloo has a newsRiver install demo in Flash. Sid Yadav: "I mentioned ‘river of news’ style [RSS] aggregating above. You might be a little confused, so I’ll explain. Traditionally, most aggregators work by categorising feeds into folders, they become bold if they have something you haven’t read yet, and if you click on it and stay on one news article for say more than 5 seconds, they convert to normal. Much like an e-mail client. But Dave’s method, “river of news” style aggregating, is simple and I find it a better way of reading news. All it is, as the name most accurately suggests, is sitting on a bank and watching the latest posts coming in and floating by, like boats. It doesn’t matter which blog they are from, as long as you’ve subscribed to it, they come by you and when it’s old, or when there’s newer stuff, they go down." Yafbog: "OPML Renderer renders valid OPML from any source as an expandable/collapsible list." It's a Wordpress plugin. Woot! I spelled Yafbog right this time! Double woot! Yafbog Bonus Round: XBEL to OPML. This will take your Firefox bookmarks and make them into OPML. Nifty! I wonder if I can make my del.icio.us bookmarks into OPML? EirePreneur: "Kosso announces another entrant in the growing list of OPML browsers. This one isn't too hot on the OPML rendering side of things but has one great trick up its sleeve - it renders the corresponding RSS feeds in the browser." Hacking the OPML Editor I learned something today on the OPML Support list that I realized I had never put down all in one place. The OPML Editor is written in Frontier, which has a built-in scripting language called UserTalk. Both the OPML Editor and the Frontier kernel and tools are GPL and freely available on the web. You get the source code for the OPML Editor right with the app when you download it. |
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