Re: RSS Feed Indexer

[Nat Friedman <nat novell com>]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 13:54 -0400, Stephen O'Grady wrote:
> agreed. would love to have scoble's comments indexed and searchable
> along with nat's, miguel's, joe's, rob's, erik's, etc.
> 
> as for approach, i'm thinking the "get from straw, etc" option has more
> legs, b/c i've had issues with the way feeds are handled in the browser.
> and many sites don't use the:
> 
> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
> href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/tecosystems"; />
> 
> tag in their source which i'd assume you'd have to use in the second
> approach. 
> 
> i'm curious however if the integration to the client is necessary short
> term. i know that's the process with Evolution, GAIM, etc, but i'm
> curious as to whether or not it'd be sufficient to simply index the
> local cache. blogs, after all, tend to be far less real time than
> email/im. 

We already index web pages that you view if you have the Firefox
extension installed.

The trick is to index blogs that you haven't seen yet, but to whose
feeds you are subscribed.

Nat