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morningDigger
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Eric Sornoso
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dsandlerFeb 24, 2006
I've always liked the MAKEbot, and hooking this new ping feature up to other feeds would be cool, but I'd be afraid of IM-bubble overload with more than one or two high-volume feeds. I mean, that's what feed readers are for, right? They organize lots of feeds in a way you can reasonably digest. The bummer is that they're not immediate like the MAKEbot---there's a polling delay you're supposed to observe.[Warning, self-link follows.] If you use a desktop feed reader, you can get the same kind of "push" (rapid updates, not once-an-hour) with FeedTree, and it works for any feed---not just Digg. (Just to give you an idea, there are enough Digg subscribers that we get new dugg links pretty rapidly---a new burst every 10 minutes or so, without hammering digg.com's servers.) <a class="user" href="http://feedtree.net/">http://feedtree.net/</a>I actually just wrote about Digg on FeedTree a couple of days ago: <a class="user" href="http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/02/21/digg-scribe-tree/">http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/02/21/digg-scribe-tree/</a>So, it's an alternative way to get your Digg fix. Let me know what you think.
lane_montgomeryFeb 24, 2006
I'll have to try it with my cell phone. It would be cool to have digg stories sent to your phone as a text as they hit the front page!
enthemFeb 24, 2006
TO: lane.montgomeryI thought about that too, but after a little while, it will become very annoying! BEleive me!--"If you think you know everything, you should know about <a class="user" href="http://www.enthem.com">http://www.enthem.com</a> by now"
makezineFeb 24, 2006Submitter
Mojave- the makebot is not activebuddy (but activebuddy is a *great* platform) - ours is perl and we worked with aol to get it going. you're right, making bots is easy, we hope more people will make bots and have all sorts of wonderful ways to get information in one of the best ways (my opinion) - instant message.
Closed AccountFeb 26, 2006
Whoa, awesome.
planckscnstFeb 28, 2006
glich,If that's Lotus Sametime you're talking about, you should try the latest Gaim. There is a plugin for Sametime. I tried it out in my office and it's awesome. I love it.montek,It's not just about IM. It's about push content. With push, the server won't have so many thousands of requests every second from users checking to see if there is new content. Instead, the server knows when there is new content and pushes it right to the users. Also, with push, it becomes easy to select if you want to send out content to a specific group of people (testers or paying subscribers, etc.) before sending it to the rest of the people. Also, as a user, you will know immediately when new content is available - you don't wait for a poll every say, hour or day or whatever the feedreader decides. It comes in right away. If you don't want to be bothered, just let it collect the messages and come back to read them later.