Feedster Now Listing Top 100 Feeds
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Feedster Now Offering My Feedster for
RSS Feeds
Feedster Now Offering My Feedster for
RSS Feeds
12/18/2003 02:15 AMOkay, if you were avoiding using RSS feeds because you didn't want to
(or couldn't) install any software, you've got a new option. RSS
search engine Feedster is now offering My Feedster, a Web-based RSS
aggregator. MyFeedster is located at...
Feedster Creates Political Feeds
Feedster Creates Political Feeds
02/17/2004 01:27 AMRSS feed search engine Feedster has started a new section designed to
aggregate news an opinions for the American presidential elections in
November. You're invited to both submit your candidate-supportin'...
Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom.
Chapter 8: Parsing and Using Feeds
Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom.
Chapter 8: Parsing and Using Feeds
06/05/2005 11:48 PMIn this section, we'll look at the two major alternatives for parsing
feeds, MagpieRSS and the Ultraliberal Feed Parser. Both parsers are
libraries, both convert feeds into native data structures and neither
cares whether a feed is RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or Atom. By O'Reilly. 0603
Updated all the 0.9 RSS feeds to 2.0
feeds
Updated all the 0.9 RSS feeds to 2.0
feeds
03/13/2003 10:14 AMFor those of you who have no idea what this means, you can either
ignore it, or read up on...
KDE and Feedster
KDE and Feedster
03/19/2003 10:27 PMKDE and Feedster
Although I mentioned this last week, now that made KDE News, its
even more official (although is that more definitive than a CVS
archive? Depends on your point of view I guess):
You already have
KNewsTicker and you often hit the popular sites for the latest
news. But have you tried Feedster, the RSS search engine?
Now, the latest KDE CVS includes support for Feedster in
the elegant form of a web shortcut. [_Go_]
My Feedster
My Feedster
09/13/2004 03:33 AMThose of you that use Feedster aggreator from time
to time be sure to add Geek News Central to your list on their site.
[Geek News Central
Feedster ID]
Feedster
Feedster
03/14/2003 12:59 PMAs we reported last week the group that used the knock of name Foogle
has seen the legal light and...
What About Feedster ?
What About Feedster ?
03/11/2003 11:55 AMWhat About Feedster ? And other Roogle Stuff
I was just chatting with Sooz
and we came up with feedster. And feedster.com was available so
I just grabbed it.
Comments? Like it ? Hate it? Loathe it beyond all
description? Leave feedback here.
Other stuff -- I've been tending to infrastructure today so far to
keep things running and I have RSS output of search results working
but I keep getting XML errors. And the indexing is going
well. Any gurus out there ? I'd love some help. Feel
free to IM me.
"Feedster"
"Feedster"
03/14/2003 02:44 AMFeedster Top 100
Feedster Top 100
01/18/2004 04:55 PMVery surprisingly we made Feedsters top 100 read list. We are sitting
at 81 tied with a bunch of other...
Feedster Gets a Bit More Attention
Feedster Gets a Bit More Attention
03/19/2003 10:27 PMFeedster Gets a Bit More Attention
I was just interviewed about Feedster by an Infoworld
reporter. Interesting. Now I'm not praising this by any
means but we've put less* marketing effort into
Feedster than I have for any other product in my career. That's
a testimony to the power of blogs if I ever saw one.
*that could also be written as "no marketing effort at all".
How to Add Feedster to Mozilla
How to Add Feedster to Mozilla
03/19/2003 10:27 PMHow to Add Feedster to Mozilla and Other Cool Mozilla Stuff
From "Andy a true MacDaddy of Mozilla" (at least from my biased
perspective) comes how to add Feedster as a search option right to
Mozilla.
Feedstering Mozilla
Time to set up a new Mozilla keyword
shortcut RSS.
A few steps in the process: [_Go_]
.. (steps to do this)
Scree
nshot of the resulting dialog. Now, you can type "rss foo"
in the url bar to search for foo on feedster.
Very nice.And if you're into Mozilla (heck even if you're
not) then you should check out:
Infoworld, Feedster, RSS
Infoworld, Feedster, RSS
03/19/2003 10:27 PMInfoworld on Weblogs
Wow. I had no idea this was going online yesterday just a few
hours after I spoke to her (Cathleen is the new Infoworld editor for
blogs for Infoworld):
Unlike
typical Web search tools such as Google that index Web content at the
page level, RSS-focused search engines index RSS feeds and do so more
frequently and at a finer level of granularity. "There is a huge need
for this capability in blogs. Blogs are heavily nested and interlinked. We take
that data stream and go all the way with it. We are getting the whole
information feed, storing it, and indexing it," Johnson said. more..
.
Interestingly their own search engine doesn't even have this
indexed. Link /
Picture. So I went and looked for their RSS feed using Syndic8 and
went to add it to Feedster and .... it was already in
our database. I went and checked using our "Drill" function to
look at all posts from InfoWorld and there it was.
Their search results, unfortunately, aren't very good though since
their RSS is just article titles, not full content. Hrm....
Thanks
to Sentence & Solas who blogged this before I did. Much
appreciated.
Feedster -- DeDuped !
Feedster -- DeDuped !
03/19/2003 10:27 PMFeedster -- DeDuped !
Ok. Based on really strong user feedback, I'm going to take
this live earlier than I had expected. What I'm referencing is
the experimental de-duping I blogged about last night.
Here's the issue:
You're a blogger. You publish content at both micro and macro
levels. In particular you have multiple RSS feeds syndicated out
for different content views. For a publisher and for a reader,
that's great. Extreme microtargeting of the audience w/ little
more effort than checking a box in Radio (categories) or Movable type
(can't remember the feature name).
Here's the problem from a search perspective:
Identical posts but with different urls clutter up the search
results. You know it feels wrong but you may not even be aware
of why.
The solution
Smart De-duping. As part of the indexing process, we're
calculating a post level "signature" and then filtering by that rather
than by the url. Here's a picture of before and after side by side.
One thing ... I haven't (yet) put in a Google like prompt "We
eliminated some duplicate results, click here to redo the
search". That'll come in the next day or two but I want to make
some improvements in the overall result set display so that it fits in
better. If anyone desperately needs the duped results, let me
know and I'll restore it at a separate url.
Anyone Want a Feedster Bookmarklet ?
Anyone Want a Feedster Bookmarklet ?
03/19/2003 10:27 PMAnyone Want a Feedster Bookmarklet ?
I was thinking it would be really useful to just highlight some
text on a webpage and click a bookmarklet in your browser link
bar and have it do a feedster search. Matt Mower gets all the
credit for this idea. And, well of course, Bottom Feeder
who already has this working.
Anyway ... I just update to IE 6 which seems to have disabled
bookmarklets. I can drag it to the links bar andeven though I
say Yes its ok to add it, it seems to just disappear into the
void. Anyone know anything?
So I have most of the code for this but I can't test the pesky
thing. Arrggh!
Analyzing Feedster
Analyzing Feedster
03/19/2003 10:27 PMAnalyzing Feedster
Wow. The single most cogent write up of Feedster yet. I
took the time to add *a lot* of comments to his analysis. So if
you care, surf on over to David Davies:
Feedster is different from Google - vive la
difference
How do RSS search engines differ from 'conventional' HTML search
engines such as Google? [_Go_]
David -- thanks for caring. I appreciate it. And as a
developer, I absolutely *loved* being described as "the canonical
example of an RSS search engine".
feedster adds ads
feedster adds ads
08/15/2004 07:10 PMkanoodle's powering the ads
"Feedster version 2"
"Feedster version 2"
07/16/2004 08:45 PMFeedster is one year old
Feedster is one year old
03/08/2004 11:28 PMFeedster just celebrated
their first birthday, and they've given thanks to a long
list of friends.
My name is in their list, and I'd like to return the thanks by
congratulating them on their success over the past 12 months.
Feedster has become as important to me as Google in my searching
tasks, which is no small feat. I'm betting they'll see even greater
success in the year to come.
PubSub vs. Feedster
PubSub vs. Feedster
01/22/2004 02:41 AMIt seems to me that both PubSub and Feedster provide feeds of searches
run against many RSS feeds. My question, to whoever (Scott, maybe?),
is this: What the real differences here? Or are they providing
something that's functionally equivalent? Anyone tried both and care
to comment?...
Feedster Unveils New Look
Feedster Unveils New Look
07/12/2004 12:21 PMSource: ClickZ - The revamped site ... will have a new look and feel,
with the search results page more closely resembling what users are
used to with larger search engines... The revamped Feedster will also
offer the ability to...
Feedster has a RSS Aggreator
Feedster has a RSS Aggreator
12/23/2003 03:55 AMI am not sure when this was launched but Feedster has a RSS Aggreator
that you can use on-line just...
Feedster Re-Launched
Feedster Re-Launched
07/16/2004 03:31 AMIt's being dubbed Feedster 2.0, congratulations to the Feedster
team on the re-launch. Feedster is a premier search engine that culls
over 700,000 RSS feeds. [Feedster]
Feedster reloaded
Feedster reloaded
07/16/2004 11:55 AM
Congratulations to Scott Johnson and the rest of the
Feedster gang for the launch of
Feedster version 2. There are lots of new features to digest, but the
ones that most interest me are those that enhance cross-blog
conversation. At
this
URL, for example, I can find a tidy summary of the reaction to
this
item:
..."Feedster Builder"
"Feedster Builder"
11/14/2003 03:32 AM"politics.feedster.com"
"politics.feedster.com"
07/24/2004 03:02 PMFeedster Actually Works
Feedster Actually Works
03/14/2003 05:09 PMFeedster Actually Works
I know this going to sound silly -- but now I **know** Feedster
works. A friend of mine just bought an iPod and they were asking
me about the FM radio adapter. I know I saw one talked about in
the blog-o-sphere recently so I ran a query for iPod and came up with the result. How damn cool. It
really is like searching either your short term memory or searching
conversations you just happened to listen in on.
A lot of times developers don't actually use the things they
build. Or use them peripherally at best. It really is cool
when they work and you have that "ah ha" moment.
Feedster Update
Feedster Update
03/13/2003 07:30 PMFeedster Update
A couple of new things:
- Searches for three letter words are now working again. Hey
you didn't think the KDE folks would be interested if we couldn't
search for them, did you? Examples:
- Hit highlighting is done within the results -- click above and
see
The obligatory back end stuff continues as well but that's just
boring.
Feedster claim
Feedster claim
12/19/2004 03:12 PM<div style="display: none;"><P
align='center'><A
href='http://feedster.com/claimfeed.php?key=77eb9d22c843510addee5e91ec
6e9498'>No Need to Click Here - I'm just claiming my feed at
Feedster</A></P> </div>...
DMOZ Listing and Value?
DMOZ Listing and Value?
08/05/2002 10:45 PM"I have looked at the PR of each directory listing and found the DMOZ
category page has PR=5, the Yahoo catogory page has PR=3, and the
Looksmart page has PR=1. "
Listing Shares
Listing Shares
05/25/2004 02:11 AMAnd that's Not All Folks: Welcome to KDE
Enhanced by Feedster
And that's Not All Folks: Welcome to KDE
Enhanced by Feedster
03/13/2003 02:16 PMAnd that's Not All Folks: Welcome to KDE Enhanced by Feedster
And wait ! There's more. And this one is just plain
damn wonderful. If you are a user of KDE, Feedster has now been
integrated into KDE. For right now you have to
install it yourself but it has already been checked into the CVS tree
for the 3.2 release. Let me quote from the documentation:
Not really eye-candy, but I had to place this somewhere. I have
commited a .desktop file for Konqueror's shortcuts to CVS HEAD. If you
can't wait for KDE 3.2, you can download the .desktop file here. [_Go_]
Here's how it works:
- In a url bar you can now type something like this:
rss:Canadian or blog:Canadian or
feedster:Canadian
- The search is automagically sent to Feedster and you get the
results!
Feedster + KDE -- Two Great Tastes that Taste Great
Together !
What is KDE ?
In case you're not a part of the Open Source community, you may
wonder "What's he saying?" Or "What's KDE?" Or the ever popular
"Is he on crack?". To quote from the KDE.org site:
KDE is a powerful Open Source graphical desktop
environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use,
contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the
technological superiority of the Unix operating system. [_Go_]
KDE runs on top of Linux / Unix and provides the windows, menus,
overall environment, the look and feel, etc. Please note that is
a simplified explanation that doesn't take into account lots of
things. I know its not 100% accurate.
Depending on how you measure it, KDE is the #1 or
#2 windowing environment for Linux. Now do you
see why I'm excited?
How this Happened
Now I'd love to tell you this was my idea. It wasn't.
I'd also love to tell you that this was part of our strategy.
Nope. Like so many *good* things, it was actually kind of
random. Yesterday out of the blue, I got an IM from a fellow
blogger, the.amazing.us / Rob Kaper, who also works on
KDE. He came up with idea, implemented the idea and the
committed it to the CVS repository for KDE 3.2 (due year end).
Wow! And to think, we released Feedster last Thursday, got
Slashdotted on Sunday and changed the name on Tuesday. And now
its already embedded in KDE ?
The Thank Yous
Thank you to everyone who pitched in:
- Rob Kaper who did all the work
and really deserves all the credit (Netherlands)
- Ditesh who tested it
(Malaysia)
- Sooz who pointed out that not
everyone knows what KDE is
- A few folks who I don't have urls for (unfortunately but
particular thanks to Macandyed, Jasonlotito and Traumwind)
Feedster Morning Update
Feedster Morning Update
03/20/2003 08:33 AMFeedster Morning Update
Good Morning Blogdom! (Sorry, woke up with strange memories of old
Robin Williams movies and I just couldn't resist). Not a
whole heck of a lot to say save that the index took another 20%
increase in size last night to 120,000+ posts.. Wah Hoo.
The bookmarklets have already been well received by at least one happy user. Today's back
end work mostly so don't expect any dramatic changes. We're
continuing to tune "frequency of blog checking algorithms" which is
obviously an area of big concern for everyone.
And while I won't blog much about Feedster today, I will cover some
other things in the next few posts.
Feedster Gnomedex Blog
Feedster Gnomedex Blog
10/28/2003 11:08 PMFeedster Gnomedex Blog
Carrying out my silly (but functional) tradition of a different
blogging tool for travel, my Gnomedex blog is here:
http://feedster.com/superblog/
and rss: http://feedster.com
/superblog//?q=node/feed
And apparently my Gnomdex Daily News is causing trouble. :-)
GGSearch is Coming to Feedster
GGSearch is Coming to Feedster
10/28/2003 11:08 PMGGSearch is Coming to Feedster
I've had some interesting IM chats with Pieter and he's updating
GGSearch for Feedster. GGSearch is a client side (for Windows)
tool for more easily building Google searches and its actually pretty
darn cool. The way it works is it builds up a search query and
then sends it to the browser. Pieter made a conscious decision
to avoid the Soap api for Google and he's going to apply the *same
approach to Feedster -- just build up a url. Give Pieter any
comments you have on how a client side API for Feedster might
work.
*Note: We do have a Soap API for Feedster although it is currently
undocumented.
Feedster Contest -- We Have (Several)
Winnahs
Feedster Contest -- We Have (Several)
Winnahs
12/31/2004 01:03 PMAs I mentioned a while ago, Feedster had a developer content going on.
You can get the details at http://www.feedster.com/contest.php . Even
cooler, you can get a list of the...
Technorati and Feedster Getting
Political
Technorati and Feedster Getting
Political
07/23/2004 01:22 PMBoth Technorati and Feedster will be providing political coverage for
the Democratic National Convention next week, only in slightly
different ways. Technorati will be providing real-time analysis of the
"political...
eweek overview of the new feedster
eweek overview of the new feedster
07/19/2004 01:21 AMsounds like they're making a lot of moves in the right directions
Feedster, Being Busy and Doing da Gnome!
Feedster, Being Busy and Doing da Gnome!
10/28/2003 11:08 PMFeedster, Being Busy and Doing da Gnome!
Well Gnomedex keeps drawing
closer and getting ready to be away (again) and doign some special
stuff for Gnomedex keeps knocking blogging off my list. Sorry
about that. Here are some interesting links:
Grok Description matches for Feedster Now Listing Top 100 Feeds
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Feedster Now Listing Top 100 Feeds
