Feedster Actually Works

I know this going to sound silly -- but now I **know** Feedster works.  A friend of mine just bought an iPod and they were asking me about the FM radio adapter.  I know I saw one talked about in the blog-o-sphere recently so I ran a query for iPod and came up with the result.  How damn cool.  It really is like searching either your short term memory or searching conversations you just happened to listen in on.

A lot of times developers don't actually use the things they build.  Or use them peripherally at best.  It really is cool when they work and you have that "ah ha" moment.

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Cool.... We're popular today

Wow.  Today we're seeing links from Doc (thanks Brent! for telling Doc about us) as well as being in the Daypop Top 40 (#6) and on Blogdex.  Damn  that feels good.

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If You Get 'Error' Back from Feedster

Please drop me a line, its something I'm trying to track down. 

Note: This will affect perhaps 1 or 2 users solely.  That's the honest to god truth.

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Feedster Update

Latest Fixes:

• Fixed the css formatting on the about page.  Thanks to the person who corrected my CSS.
• If you left feedback and an email address, I responded to it.  Lots of good suggestions.
• Fixed a bug where the term for the RSS search query wasn't part of the URL
• Added the query term to the RSS search results so they show up as "Query - Feedster Search Summary" or "Linux - Feedster Search Summary" i.e. they aren't all identical.  Thanks to Andrie for suggesting this. 

Note -- if you want me to link back to you when I address your issue, include a url in your comment.  I suspect you know that I'm happy to link back.

Metrics

• Over 58,000 queries performed (I was amazed)
• 4,600 rss urls in the registry
• 40,000+ posts indexed

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BottomFeeder Now Supports Feedster !

Wow.  Say that 10 times fast.  Seriously though, I got a nice email yesterday from James Robertson of Cincom Smalltalk who is also the individual responsible for the BottomFeeder RSS aggregator. He let me know that he's added support for Feedster as a search option within BottomFeeder.  That's very cool.  Here's some more info on BottomFeeder:

• Home Page
• Screenshot
• More Info Page

Now here's the interesting thing, look at all the supported platforms:

• Windows
• Mac OS8, OS9
• Solaris
• HPUX 10
• SGI
• Linux 86
• Mac OSX
• AIX
• HPUX 11
• Alpha Unix

This is written in Cincom Smalltalk and the number of platforms available is a huge endorsement for the portability that Cincom must offer.  Neat.  Thank you James !

Random humor that's running through my brain right now, I can just hear this: "Yes Virginia, that's right.  You can now aggregate feeds on your AlphaServer.  Its wicked fast".

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