Comments on: Introducing dbagg3, an Atom-powered client/server aggregator

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This is great. It seems that this could be the base, for what I’ve been dreaming/thinking about the last half year or so. In contrast to you, I haven’t come up with any code yet (mostly due to the fact, that I don’t python yet, and I found no other reasonably good feed parser, than the Universal Feed Parser), but with a name: Roosster

Features I’d really like to have in such a ClientServerAggregator are:
(a) search over entries the aggregator has seen to date
(b) add and arbitrary number of notes to any entry
(c) add multiple category-tags to entries
(d) interlink entries (I know this could be solved by some ‘Related Entries’ stuff, but somtimes I don’t trust these “automatic classifiers”)

Can’t wait, until I can take a look at the code and see if I can extend it. This would finally be a real reason to learn python.

By the way, I really like the interface. Might be, that’s because I’m a programmer too?!

By: Christopher Drake

Christopher Drake — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Very nice. The demo has me salivating a little.

Oddly enough, I like the UI. If you can slim it down, side-to-side-wise a bit, it would also be a great aggregator to rip whole chunks from and feed to a Palm Pilot or PocketPC, as well. They're not as big as they were in the past, but with decent strides every couple of weeks, they still have a lot of following. Your page-width is dynamic, and that means a lot to me, a Palm user.

A feature I'd like to see is kind of like Bloglines, where you receive a small box of info from the RSS feed, or what-have-you to give you a taste of an article. If going 1 link deep from any link on the aggregator page linked to a small page with such a tidbit, it would make surfing the articles a lot faster. This would allow a PDA or cellphone to drag an aggregator page 1 link deep with specialised software and get all of the highlights from say, 20 blogs.

That could be a major boon, especially for people that connect while at wireless access points on business trips, etc.

Keep it up, this looks like it'll rock when you are done.

By: Christoph Görn

Christoph Görn — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hi,
and I will try to plug an jabber/XMPP bot into it, so it will deliver the aggragated content rigth to my beloved IM app…

By: Tech Observer

Tech Observer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

dbagg3, an Atom-powered client/server aggregator

Introducing dbagg3, an Atom-powered client/server aggregator - Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog I like it! It�s a feed aggregator, my third attempt at such. At present, things are roughly close to the…

By: Lockergnome's RSS & Atom Tips

Lockergnome's RSS & Atom Tips — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

dbagg3, an Atom-powered feedreader

0xDECAFBAD has put together a very promising Atom-powered aggregator. It uses XSLT to produce a very clean front-end. Check out the details. From [Waxy.org Links]...

By: Semantic Wave

Semantic Wave — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

RSS Buffer and Transformer

Leslie Michael Orchard has posted some details about his latest RSS aggregator: dbagg3. Written in Python, dbagg3 speaks Atom on the client end, storing the feed entries in a relational db. Atom API provides access these entries. At the tail end of thi...

By: Going Nowhere

Going Nowhere — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Build your own Feedbruner

Leslie Orchard over at 0xDECAFBAD is busy building an Atom/RSS client/server aggregator on top of Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser. From the system diagram, it looks like the scanned feeds are dumped into your choice of relational database. From th...