Alex King and Scott Sanders have announced FeedLounge, a “state of the art web-based feed reader.” Alex invited me to be an alpha tester, so I spent some time kicking it around yesterday. Color me impressed.
FeedLounge interface screenshot
Keeping in mind that this is alpha software, I’ll grant you that I found a couple of suggestions to make. [...]
A friend of mine is looking for a web-based events calendar. He’s got a pretty big list of needs and wants, but here are some of the main ones:
I’m afraid that my calendar-fu is pretty weak right now, so I don’t have any recommendations for him. [...]
There’s a new minor bugfix release of WordPress, which brings us up to version 1.5.1.1.
Update: In our effort to optimize we made two mistakes in 1.5.1, one related to feeds and one related to trackbacks and pingbacks. . [...]
Feeding the meme…
These are my URL ABCs:
I’ve updated the OPML import/export patch for Mozilla Thunderbird that I mentioned before. The new patch comes from Robert Sayre, and improves both the import and export of OPML files. Full details are on the Thunderbird Bugzilla tracker.
I have updated the patched, downloadable version of newsblog.jar for your hacking pleasure.
In case all of the above was gobbledygook to you, here are some definitions:
Thunderbird OPML Import/Export
Aha! I was digging around some more, and thought I’d see if there was any kind of official movement on OPML import for Thunderbird. [...]
Get Thunderbird!
This is actually old news at this point, but the Mozilla Thunderbird mail/news/rss reader has reached version 1.0. There haven’t been any earth-shattering changes since I discussed version 0.8 back in September. [...]
I’m back. Did you miss me?
I didn’t think so.
Anyhow, ever since Feedster announced their new ping interface earlier this month, we’ve been getting requests to add them to Ping-O-Matic. Matt contacted them to make sure that they wanted us to start bombarding them with our pings, and they said ‘okay’. . [...]
Everybody is all excited about the new Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate. In particular, the “Live Bookmarks” feature, which adds items from RSS feeds as special bookmarks. It uses RSS autodiscovery to add a convenient button in the statusbar, which allows you to easily subscribe to a page. Cool.
But I think I’m more excited about the addition of RSS support in Thunderbird 0.8. [...]
Meme Roundup
There have been several new memes lately that I have thoughts on, but I just haven’t had the time to comment on them here. I still don’t have time to discuss them in as much depth as I’d like, but here’s a quick summary:
I have mixed feelings on this. It fixes one of my biggest complaints about RSS 1.0, which was the requirement for the rdf:Seq list, which seemed redundant with the content elements. [...]