d2r: necho & OPML in cactus

necho & OPML in cactus

Today I added (among other things) preliminary necho support for the aggregator in clevercactus. It didn't take long, and detection of the feed type is transparent like before with no problems, which is basically what I expected.

Another important addition for the aggregator side of cactus is the new OPML import/export feature, or as I call it, "the Russ feature" since Russ has been its most vocal advocate :). Just like email import is essential to try out a new email program, an easy way to import (and export) of a user's feed subscriptions is also crucial to try out the aggregator. (OPML is actually a generic outliner format, more flexible than to be used only for subscription lists, but it's widely used for that anyway, and many news aggregators allow import/export to it).

Looking good so far. I'll probably post a screenshot later today, or tomorrow.

Categories: clevercactus
Posted by diego on July 8 2003 at 9:35 PM

Comments (please see the comments & trackback policy).

Just to be clear, I'm not a vocal advocate of OPML which is a weird XMLish spec that needs to be replaced with something better (like RSS). I just wanted to be able to import a bunch of feeds to see how they work.

You need some default feeds. I just read that Adam Curry paid Userland $10,000 to be one of the default feeds in Radio. You could generate some cash that way as well. :-)

-Russ

Posted by: Russ at July 8, 2003 10:27 PM

Russ, you're right, my comment wasn't very clear, but as you said you were a vocal advocate of having a way to import feeds, not specifically OPML; OPML was one way it could be done that is relatively common today.

Re: the default feeds, I had seen his post, and was thinking about that... we'll see. :)

Posted by: Diego at July 8, 2003 11:00 PM