On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Mailing List <maillistin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> For some weird reason, I couldn't post from my previous email id. So I > have had to create a new one. > > > This is the probable set of features: > 1) Subscribe to RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds > 2) Download podcasts and save in the file system. > 3) Freely configure your keyboard shortcuts > 4) Search through all downloaded articles > 5) Categorize and query your subscriptions with a flexible tag system > 6) Integrate any data source through a flexible filter and plugin system > possibly through "extension system" (Opera/Chromium). Firefox is still > running in a terrible beta and I really don't mind shifting to a "browser" > if it gets my work done. For the time being, I am in Opera. > 7) Automatically remove unwanted articles through a "killfile" (this is > something that no one has implemented) > 8) Define "meta feeds" using a powerful query language > 9) Port and exporting your subscriptions with the widely used OPML format > 10) Keep all your feeds in sync with Google Reader (they have an API for > that!) > 11) Download all the articles in one single pane; for example the you tube > videos and fetch complete articles. > 12) There is a lot of things happening in medical field. For example, there > is a web site called as Mendeley (www.mendeley.com) which allows one to > store the articles and meta data. Suppose the feed reader were to be > integrated with Mendeley AND Twitter, the existing data/RSS feeds can be > cross checked in REAL time. I think, one has to port their API (someone has > to think about making a plug in for this!). > This RSS Reader, in my humble opinion, would then become a "content > discovery platform". You can use this reader to search for stuff of your > choice. Get an API of say "Hacker News or Digg", tag by keywords say "ruby" > and everything related to "ruby" would be there in it. > Then see for the contextual linkage- how well the articles are related by > means of a simple tag cloud. Voila! You have the best content offline :) > Is this possible? > > The listed suggestions are not cool. It has to be either implemented from > ground up or some other way. Or a GUI needs to be provided. > > What is the opinion? > > Interesting project idea. Many of us could get together and build a fresh new reader from ground up. That would be fun :) > Please provide suggestions! > > - > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
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