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- Foo667, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm using the Firefox plugin 'RSS Ticker' to add a bar to the bottom of firefox that ticks the latest updates from Slashdot, Penny Arcade and Digg. It's very unobtrusive and lets me keep up with the latest updates without needing to revisit the site front pages. It automatically checks the feeds once every x mins or on demand, and you can mark feeds/items as read so they disappear.
It works a bit like an inbox in that regard. I really like it. - themurph2099, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I use RSS for almost every site I visit (including this one) through my Google Homepage. A friend of mine uses Bloglines too. I love RSS.
- dontera, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@jesusphreak, I felt like you a year ago.. any readers I tried just didnt do it for me, but then I found RSS Bandit and became a convert.. give it a try, well worth the download (its open source, available on sourceforge)
- alecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In other news, a tutorial on how to make your own AJAX engine.. with AJAX..
- illicium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This isn't really RSS in *Ajax*, per se, more along the lines of a php script that chews up ajax feeds for some simple js. Reading actual rss in javascript has probably been done before, and isn't really harder than this
- br0ck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are two workarounds that you can use to avoid all of the database wrapper nonsense in the linked article. One is to create a local page to just echo the contents of the RSS. The other is to use netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalBrowserRead"); to enable the external connection. Both are documented in the comments below the article at http://ajax.phpmagazine.net/2005/11/ajax_rss_reader_step_by_step_t.html
- KnightMareInc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use a bunch of RSS feeds on google home and in utorrent.Digg is one of the feeds.
- hasbeen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah I've felt like that for a long time. The main problem is really finding a good reader. I prefer an online reader, but haven't found one that really suits me. Bloglines is probably one of the best online readers, though it still lacks some critical features.
I currently use FeedReader (offline reader), they've made a lot of progress over the years. For linux I highly recommend Liferea. Both are completely free. My friend swears by FeedDemon, but that isn't free. - santu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You should consider giving a try at netvibes.com. It even has built-in digg support.
- n1qaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use RssReader 1.0.88 very easy to find content and add content. good offline reader.
- jnagel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've been interested in doing this for a long time! Great to see a well documented and explained example.
- hardcoreUFO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1NewsFire is a fantastic reader. It is open constantly on my desktop, and saves me from having to surf to 100 different sites for news and views.
- Warpling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's insanely hard, just use Flex, there's a tutorial that will take about < 20 lines of code
- mink78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Google Personalized Homepage RSS feeds work really well, and you can get a GMail RSS feed. Makes my life a little easier, and puts all the content I am looking for on one page (Slashdot, Techcrunch, and of course, Digg!)
- heysuburbia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I set up 15 Wii feeds on my site that display all the content at once and one feed that displays just Wii content from Digg:
http://wiinintendo.net/feeds.php - kiddailey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I do. Before RSS I used to surf a collection of sites during the day repeatedly and probably wasted a ton of time doing so. Now I can instead quickly scan the headlines and summaries and only go to the sites when there's something I'm actually interested in. The only issue I have with it is that for some sites (like Digg.com's main page feed), there's simply too much content to keep up with anymore :)
For newsreaders, if you're running OS X, the two that I have enjoyed the most are Netnewswire (which has a free version) and Newsfire:
http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire
http://www.newsfirerss.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Use the one at Monkeychow.org on your own server for a good web-based experience. I use it to track 130+ sites.
- DeezKnots, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use digg.com on my protopage. "http://protopage.com/shane_curren"
I want to be able to create a PERL script that reads other sites RSS news... like digg news etc. This was usefull, but a seems like a pain in the ass sence they are using PHP and MySQL. I thought these RSS feeds were simple XML files with universal formatting that I could have a PERL script read and spit out the data the way I or the user would want. GRRR. $dugg++; - mbrindam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use the Sage plugin for firefox as my reader... it's another excellent one.
- sirsteveh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did this a few days ago for a site I'm developing. Only, instead of using a database for it, I used an XML file (easier for the guys in charge to edit, they don't program), and instead of having it horribly complex, it took about 20 lines. Instead of being a standalone script, it's a list of feeds on the right hand side of the browser.
- bobba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a folder in my firefox bookmarks toolbar which I populate with RSS feeds. I click it, it drops down, I pick which feed I want to look at and choose the headline I'm interested in. Basic, but always on hand and quick.
- cheifchuck0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1der... this look hard to do.
- davidcoallier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok, so let's break it down. illicium, I don't know if you do not understand the principle of ajax but you sure seem to not have a clue about it.
Plus, the package DB is no longer maintained, we made it go to MDB2 directly which is faster, more flexible and under development also very usefull to use with it's brother MDB2_Schema.
Nice script though, well described, simple, quick. Good for anyone who doesn't want to do it :-) - jmaguire123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0For anyone interested in a slightly different AJAX RSS example, you can see one that I have assembled. It relies on a cronjob to fetch Digg's RSS feed, then caches it locally. This is to get around the same origin browser security policy.
http://www.jmaguire.com/downloads/source_code/java ... - davidcoallier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh I forgot, perhaps one could use XML_Feed_Parser instead of XML_RSS which will give you much more ability if you want to fetch rss1-2 atom1, opml, feeds. Which might be what you really want.
- alikuru, on 03/04/2009, -0/+0I was searching for a similar article, but this seems like requiring some more knowledge than I have :) I am going to use MagpieRSS class I think. Thanks for sharing.
- JeremyCouch, on 12/22/2008, -0/+0A year ago I tried out all the free ones like RSS Bandit and even some trials of ones you have to pay for and at the time found Thunderbird to be as good as any. It really lacks in some areas though and I've recently switched to ff extension Wizz RSS. It's much more convenient and works in the sidebar. Might give it a try.
- whizack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This whole tutorial is somewhat misleading, since writing a php/c# page to return an XML page could be easily transformed using an XSLT stylesheet and implemented natively into the page instead of requiring client side scripting.
In the case of RSS feeds, there is typically no RSS feed that is not cached due to the amount of traffic/load on the site from many RSS readers.
The viability of an AJAX RSS reader is insignificant when the XML consumed is not readily changing on a regular basis to necessitate "lazy loading" or "refresh-less updating".
If you want some good examples of lazy loaded RSS aggregators, look at live.com and google personalized pages, both employ lazy loading of RSS feeds and it does nothing for readability or visualization of the page itself, and if the site employed asynchronous web requests in C# it would potentially provide the same loading experience as any client side methods implemented in the tutorial.
One implementation that utilizes this method successfully is Google's RSS aggregation web app, "Google Reader" or whatever.
But I doubt everyone is so interested in this tutorial because they wanted to copy some web app that hardly anyone uses as is. - sylenzednuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool, I was interested into this. I am currently using Netvibes and it also shows which tracks have I turned my ears to recently so that I don't have to load the junky last.fm site everytime.
- nearlygod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I used a set of scripts from www.dhtmlgoodies.com (http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/index.html?whichScript=dragable-boxes) to add RSS to my website (www.nearlygod.com). It seems to be a pretty full featured implementation and works well for me.
- jesusphreak, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Quick question...how many of you actually use RSS? I've never really used it, but I think it might be because I've never found a really solid RSS reader.
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