Feeds are the Future
Time is valuable. Syndication feeds save time.
I used to have a large links page that I would go through and click on each for updates about 3-5x each day. This process took me between 10 minutes and an hour each time I went through. Many of these sites are weblogs with RSS feeds available, but it never occurred to me before recently that I can syndicate and read all of these sites from one source with a feed aggregator.
Opera has a built in feed reader that can automatically update the feeds on a given interval. This works great for me at work, but nowhere else because you apparently cannot export this list (even to another Opera client). Since school is starting up soon, I’d like to be able to check my feeds from home or school.
This led me to think that I should go for a RSS aggregator on the web. There are many available services already, but I’m somewhat turned off of the fact that some will be high quality at a price, or stricken with ads (or both?). I’m actually a little disgusted that someone would try to charge a periodic fee for feedreading, moreso than ads. This combined has led me to wanting to create a free web feed reader and syndication aggregator. I’ll be working on that as time comes my way, but I’m quite excited about it.
Greg Said,
August 5, 2005 @ 7:43 pm
Disgusted huh? Me too! I’m glad you must be independantly wealthy so you can afford the ~$100K a year a service like this seems to cost. I look forward to your free offering - make sure you don’t have any ads either, ads suck.
Raybdbomb Said,
August 5, 2005 @ 8:51 pm
No harm intended, and I don’t want to start a flame fest, but I have something against that; perhaps I should bite my tongue or be more cautious with my word selection.
But btw, it doesn’t cost nearly that. I think the hardware he bought was a slight overkill to say the least…
Greg Said,
August 5, 2005 @ 11:22 pm
It sounds to me like they’ll be lucky if that hardware lasts them 6 months with a service like that. Have you done the math? I did and it’s damn scary.
You still haven’t explained how you plan to operate an expensive service without any revenue…
Raybdbomb Said,
August 6, 2005 @ 12:08 am
It’s not THAT expensive.
Greg Said,
August 6, 2005 @ 5:44 am
How many users do you expect to have?
Greg Said,
August 6, 2005 @ 5:45 am
I’m not trying to argue with you - please shut me up by showing that you’ve done your research.
Raybdbomb Said,
August 6, 2005 @ 10:37 am
It’s a different sort of product altogether. Stay tuned, since you’re obviously interested
Greg Said,
August 6, 2005 @ 9:37 pm
Sounds to me like you have no idea what you’re doing…
Raybdbomb Said,
August 6, 2005 @ 9:39 pm
You’re obviously trying to stir up trouble, so go away you boob.
CooZa@Azeroth Said,
August 9, 2005 @ 6:17 pm
lol
Jason Said,
August 10, 2005 @ 5:23 pm
I have all your work done for you. Google Adds RSS. Of course, you’ll probably make one yourself anyways :). And a “better” one, right?
Have fun.
Raybdbomb Said,
August 14, 2005 @ 1:04 pm
Indeed… I’ll give it a look see, thx
Teh Blarg » Online Feed Reader Said,
August 23, 2005 @ 4:57 pm
[...] Instead of just complain about a service that will do what I want, but cost money, I decided to work on my own service. [...]
Teh Blarg » Feed Reader project abandoned Said,
October 17, 2005 @ 9:10 am
[...] The feed reading services provided by Alex and Google are more of a “sign up for service on some central super-cluster” kind of deal. The reason I am stopping my project for Google’s and not Alex’s, is because Google’s is free (and I respect that very much). Alex posted a somewhat biased (and rightfully so) Google Reader vs FeedLounge, and while I have never used FeedLounge (no Opera support), Google Reader seems to be working very well for me so far. Good luck to Alex fighting that “800 pound gorilla”, he and his partner might need it. [...]