I've been a fan of RSS for quite a while, however I could never find a service that allowed you to share calendar feeds with your family or friends. So I built...
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Phil Ringnalda
philringnalda
Aug 1, 2004 7:57 pm
... rss/channel/lastBuildDate has a time in the user's timezone, but says it's in GMT. I don't have Outlook, so I can't nitpick how importing works, but I'm a...
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John Pacchetti
jpac@...
Aug 2, 2004 3:10 am
Phil , Thank you for the suggestions. Last Build Date is generated dynamically off the webserver date and then converted to GMT using another function. However...
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Phil Ringnalda
philringnalda
Aug 2, 2004 3:32 am
... I might not have explained that problem well enough: the other function isn't working. It's 20:18 Pacific right now, and I'm looking at a feed that says...
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John Pacchetti
jpac@...
Aug 2, 2004 4:02 am
Phil - I gotcha now. I just changed the format so it takes local webserver time plus a correction to get a starting GMT - then I use the function to fomart it....
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Zdravko Danev
newzspider
Aug 2, 2004 3:24 pm
New features in NewzSpider 0.8 BETA: IE context menu autostart with windows bug fixes Free unlimited trial is available for download from http://newzspider.com...
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Timothy Appnel
tappnel
Aug 2, 2004 6:44 pm
... I have not scoured the Yahoo! feeds, but the ones I was testing with were the Yahoo! news stories such as: http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories Get out...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Aug 2, 2004 7:36 pm
... Usually known as a LARTing, often best applied with a clue-by-four....
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ml_yahoo@...
wkearney99
Aug 6, 2004 2:54 pm
Hi all, I'd like to get some feedback from RSS reader developers about the idea of an ID being used to distinguish an installed reader instance. That is,...
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Jason Brome
jason_brome
Aug 6, 2004 3:21 pm
A GUID is probably the easiest way of creating a unique ID across all reader instances. It would not require any centralized service to ensure (reasonable)...
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DecMon
Aug 6, 2004 3:31 pm
Check out http://www.deepwire.com It's a free web-based news aggregator that allows you to monitor stocks, weather, and news. This site was just launched and...
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Graham Parks
dtcduk
Aug 6, 2004 4:46 pm
http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html Graham Hi all, I'd like to get some feedback from RSS reader developers about the idea of an ID being used...
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Graham Parks
dtcduk
Aug 6, 2004 4:46 pm
http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html Graham Hi all, I'd like to get some feedback from RSS reader developers about the idea of an ID being used...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Aug 6, 2004 6:36 pm
While it's tangentally related to cookies that's not exactly what I'm after. But, much like the user-agent string, there's a degree of parsing structing ...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Aug 6, 2004 6:37 pm
... Surprisingly not all tools make them easy to create. At least not genuine DCE/OSF style GUIDs. But that's neither here nor there. ... While I am aware of...
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Bob Wyman
bobwyman
Aug 6, 2004 7:26 pm
... Reader IDs open up a very broad door for potential privacy violations. Thus, if synchronization is really what you're looking for, then I would strongly...
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Jason Brome
jason_brome
Aug 6, 2004 8:35 pm
Bill, ... Do you have an intended platform for the development of this solution? ... Consider it noted. ... track and ... to ... it ... unique ... in a ... ...
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ml_yahoo@...
wkearney99
Aug 6, 2004 8:52 pm
Can I be no more clear on this? I'm specifically NOT TALKING ABOUT SOME SORT OF ID INTENDED FOR PUBLISHED USE. ... Let me be clear, again, this is not...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Aug 6, 2004 9:46 pm
... Not a single platform nor a single programming environment. ... Not exactly, I'm looking at raising a discussion on what the various reader programs could...
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Bob Wyman
bobwyman
Aug 6, 2004 10:42 pm
... I don't see why we should "give up" just because you're ranting... The point is that we shouldn't be creating standards or even common practices that rely...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Aug 7, 2004 2:06 am
... Then we fundamentally disagree and you're more than welcome to think the idea is ridiculous. Point noted and you're welcome to ignore whatever thread...
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James Robertson
jarober61
Aug 7, 2004 3:25 am
I'll interject one small point from an aggregator author's POV. If a feed doesn't provide a GUID, then the aggregator creates one (from some combination of...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Aug 7, 2004 5:45 pm
... I'm expecting that the identification of the feed would be based on it's URL and some assortment of timestamp, hash, etag or whatever. The idea here is to...
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swschilke
Aug 13, 2004 12:41 pm
Just came across this : Rome is a set of Atom/RSS Java utilities that make it easy to work in Java with most syndication formats. It includes a set of parsers...
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Greg Gershman
ggershman77
Aug 16, 2004 2:32 pm
I've played around with it a bit; it is very well architechted. The conversion process from WireFeed (some incarnation of RSS or Atom) to a general ...
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Julian Bond
jbond23uk
Aug 26, 2004 1:06 pm
Assuming you haven't seen this already. http://www.glassdog.com/archives/2004/08/25/whats_wrong_with_feed_readers .html -- Julian Bond Email&MSM: julian.bond...
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Jeremy Zawodny
jzawodn
Sep 8, 2004 6:04 am
Someone here recently asked me this: the RSS 2.0 spec allows each item to have a link element and a guid isPermalink item. If a RSS file specifies both, which...
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Mark Fletcher
snoovler
Sep 8, 2004 1:17 pm
... Here's what we do. If the GUID has isPermaLink set to false, it doesn't appear in the interface. 1) If the item has a GUID, use it for the url for the...
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wticker
Sep 9, 2004 5:42 am
Hello I would much appreciate, if you try out my free win32 aggregator. Please give me feedback about your impression. Thanks for your time. Introduction to...
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Roger B.
journurl
Sep 9, 2004 7:46 pm
... Jeremy: I can only tell you what JournURL does. RSS and Atom are normalized internally, and during that process: - atom:id becomes feeditem.id or -...
