Friday, March 7, 2003

Roogle an RSS search engine! A RSS search engine, Roogle. What a great idea! [Joi Ito's Web] No No No! You got it wrong! an RSS search engine should read my RSS feed, then compare it to all the other RSS feeds, and return interesting results in an RSS feed that I sibscribe to! 8:40:15 PM

Leslie Walker reviews news aggregators... Leslie Walker reviews news aggregators and RSS. [Scripting News] Here's the intro to Leslie's article: News junkies like me are constantly on the prowl for an electronic Einstein to sniff out the nuggets we crave online, sparing us the daily hassle of clicking to so many Web sites. I wish I could report I've found my electronic Einstein. As near as I can tell, such a digital prodigy is still just a glimmer in the brains of inventors. But I have been testing a promising new breed of software that is helping me on the daily news hunt. Called "news readers," these programs fetch headlines and site summaries from hundreds of Web sites I preselect and present all the information in one spot on my computer desktop. So desktop news aggregators are the first step towards Leslie's dream information tool: bringing all the interesting information to you, in one place. The next generation of news aggregators will do even more interesting processing of that information: filtering, summarizing, categorizing, prioritizing, storing, and aging. 10:50:35 AM

Blogging Wish List - Huge Honkin Console An interesting wish list here... A real-time ticker application that will be updated using RSS. (Not the current "refresh to update" silliness in aggregators of today) Intelligent Agents (ooh, blast from the past ;-) to be constantly indexing and searching the internet for other things that I might be interested in. Fully functional annotation engines to work in conjunction with my window-on-the-web environment so I can mark-up both cached and remote versions of web pages for future reference. The ability to publish these annotations (the way a few applications used to be able to do... uTok, etc.) so that other people can view them as well. Notifications when people read, comment on, or annotate anything I've published out in publicly-accessable land. (and all the other psycho TrackBack, Pingback features that have shown up in the blogosphere in the last year or so.) Published playlists from iTunes, WinAmp and any other damn thing.  Note I don't mean publishing the mp3s, just the playlists so I can compare with other people and see what music I might be missing in the world. (Hilary sit the hell back down and shut up.) Published blog entries (like this one) to auto-annotate with links to the right places (i.e. Jabber, uTok (no longer available.) , Zope, CMF, RSS, etc should all be auto-linked without me having to "create shortcuts" in Radio (which just took about 20 minutes).) And I want it ALL in a unified source-accessable platform (I'll pay.  Doesn't have to be open source.  But I will need the source) A massively flexible api for developing plug ins for the 50,000,000 things I haven't thought of and the 150 or so I'm gonna make money on and therefore am not mentioning here. 10:43:56 AM

FM Radio Station - desktop editor for Radio A Windows-only app that puts a desktop interface on top pf Radio Userland. Sure looks pretty. 10:34:54 AM