I started working on my RSS filter again. It’s a rewrite of my php test as a small Ruby on Rails app using Bob Aman‘s FeedTools. All the time I was wondering if this is really worth spending my time. To me the idea of filtering feeds seems obvious, but it felt strange that there were no other tools around to provide the same service.

Yesterday I found Feedrinse, so perhaps my idea isn’t strange after all. They provide only very simple features: filter by author, filter by keyword and filter by tag. Not much, but it shows there is a market

There are a bunch of RSS Feed Aggregators like Planet, kickrss and rssmix. Mixing RSS feeds is a neat idea, but right now it’s not really mixing but more like dumping together the content of different feeds. To be really useful to me, they lack the feature to selectively remove some of the entries. I read a few feeds where the author posts his links nearly every day or adds a picture of the day (yes, I did that, too, but I’m over it ) which leads to a pretty bad signal to noise ratio. Read the rest of this entry »

Sorry, for the lack of posts. I was on vacation and put most of the little spare time that was left into improving my del.icio.us clone.

Here’s a short list of the features I have implemented by now:

• add a bookmark entry with title, comment and tags
• a bookmarklet for adding entries
• view the list of bookmarks for user and/or tag and sort by bookmark time, title or hostname
• user defined stylesheet for a custom layout
• edit/delete entries (since 14.4.05)
• privacy, the user can choose who sees the entries (since 15.4.05)
  • Tag: private (only this user can see entry)
  • Tag: local (only logged in users can see entry)
  • public, the default behaviour
• simple RSS feed works (since 15.4.05)
• related tags (since 23.4.05)
• intersection between and union of any number of tags (30.4.05)

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Last week after I wrote an answer to a comment about igooi I got the mad idea to write my own clone of del.icio.us. So far it’s going pretty good, considering I knew very little php and SQL when I started. Read the rest of this entry »