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Revision r1.12 - 02 Jun 2003 - 16:28 GMT - TWikiGuest

  • Name
    • Starting to go beyond just outlines.
    • Just AmphetaDesk, leave template-land and start hacking core code?
  • UI
    • Even more lightweight HTML
    • Hidden iframe / frame in which to perform web actions without a full page refresh?
      • Just use a pop-up? Or replace pop-ups?
    • Pagination of channels, to cut down on HTML loaded all at once
      • Slows down visual scan in one page via page-down
      • May speed up overall scan by making each page quicker to load?
    • Do something DHTMLish to dynamically load item content into page?
  • Blog posting page
  • Subscription categorization / grouping
    • Store category / groups in channel metadata
  • Shopping cart
    • Queue up URLs to visit after one has finished skimming the aggregator page
  • Personal History
    • Record & track items visited / clicked in aggregator
  • Archival
    • Store up and index all items ever seen in RSS feeds, even once unsubscribed.
    • Requires a flexible, generalized persistence layer (vs simple XML files)
  • Temporary / expiring subscriptions
    • ie. For comment feeds
    • Set to unsubscribe given X days of inactivity.
  • Permanent, lightweight, rarely checked subscriptions
    • What if someone discovers a post 1 year later and comments? I'd like to be notified.
      • Delete stored data for channel, very rarely check channel?
    • Event feed from intrusion detection system?
    • Annual event of short duration with a news site? (ie. Burning Man, Renaissance Festivals)
    • Barely ever should change, but high priority when it does
  • Vary channel polling frequency
    • Observe when channel changes, come up with a fitting polling frequency
    • Double time between polls if a given poll comes up unchanged?
      • Doubling too much - ie. Yearly updated feed gets updated after 1 year, 1 day
    • Polling frequency will tend to decrease with unchanging channels (ie. old comment feeds)
    • Honor RSS extension module tags that specify update times
  • Enhanced bookmarklet for autodetected subscription
    • Specify expiry period & category
  • Multiple sources of positive & negative channel/item feedback
    • Clicks on item titles
    • Detect & count clicks on links encoded in item description
    • Tree expansion, item manually made visible
    • Manual karma / rating
  • Machine learning & assistance
    • Bayesian filtering of interesing items to highlight?
    • Crawl blog neighborhood to find likely new interesting subscriptions?
  • Preferences
    • Channel set to be fully expanded or collapsed by default
    • Give priority to channel regardless of metrics
  • Simple GUI Features
    • Category Folders, for grouping of related feeds
    • possibility of changing the settings for the aging of feeds (e.g. how many hours must have passed so that an item is "old")
    • allow for manual changing of aging (checkbox to go ahead and get rid of item, perhaps?)

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