Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Jake posted the docs on how to turn on a new feature in Manila:  A News Aggregator.  Now, any Manila site can have a news aggregator.  This essentially allows you to turn your weblog into a personal news portal (like Radio), except one that runs on the Web rather than your desktop.  Companies and educational institutions that want to offer personal news portals can now do so inexpensively.  Very cool.  I remember that only a couple of years ago, portal software that did this cost tens of thousands of $$.  A couple years before that, Vignette payed over a $$b for a company that had a very expensive product that did what RSS in combo with UserLand's Manila (or Radio with eVectors RSS Distiller) does today for low $$.  Revolutionary. One additional point: since the news is aggregated centrally by Manila, it is very bandwidth friendly to the sources.  It is also easily administered by the server admin. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 6:53:42 AM