I have actively started using a bunch of specialized web apps that provide the means to publish writing or other information. For example, I wrote recently about the reasons why Last.fm's journal is a cool place to write about music: the integration with Last.fm's music database is really great. Likewise, the integation of 43Places' geographic database with posts there is equally cool. I anticipate that dozens more of these domain-specific solutions will be rolled out, similarly integrated with specialized domain-specific databases.
So, my online life has recently fragmented. For the past few years, I have divided my writing between Get Real and my personal blog, A Working Model, where I have been writing on topics like politics, karate, travel, and music. My rapid migration to these other services has led to me trying to duct tape things together in some way, using RSS feeds. Today, my A Working Model blog includes feeds rendered in the right margin from Get Real, 43Places, Last.fm, my del.icio.us bookmarks, and a travel schedule. But the contraption that I have created to make this work is rickety. I have been using Feeddigest to manage these feeds, for example, and for no reason that I can understand, sometimes javascript calls to the Feeddigest service time out.
Just as I was getting fed up with this mess, someone introduced me to Netvibes, which is a new Ajax web app, that attempts to provide a perhaps better MyWeb. The idea is a way to pull together your favorite RSS feeds -- like an RSS reader -- but a format more like a portal.
What I would like, though, is something different: to be able to define a Netvibes portal, pulling together all these threads of my online life, and publish it so that it is accessible to others. They don't support that yet, but I intend to start the begging and whining.
1. Peter Cooper on September 23, 2005 04:26 AM writes...
FeedDigest had a bad day yesterday, so you may have experienced a little of that.
Our servers are (currently) in Houston, and for some reason our upstream provider's DNS servers crashed out (our data center has been semi-evacuated, not sure if that was related to it). All is resolved now, and everything's caught back up to normal, but things were a little sketchy yesterday, with some requests failing.
Thanks for giving us a try though, and as FeedDigest becomes better funded, better provisioned, and more established, I'm sure overall reliability and stability will reach the level that even the most demanding user requires.
Also note that we have a "local proxy/cache" script in beta which allows FeedDigest users to run a local script that, in the event of FeedDigest failing, means your digests will still continue to run 100%. This will help most users reach a 100%, or close enough to, reliability. It's available on our forum for adventurous users.
(As an aside, this blog has been down for the last two hours.. it went down while I wrote this comment back then and I've been reloading regularly ever since)
Permalink to Comment2. David Parket on September 26, 2005 10:06 PM writes...
You should check out Protopage ( http://www.protopage.com ) too if you're into this kind of stuff
Permalink to Comment3. David Parket on September 26, 2005 10:10 PM writes...
Just looking at my last comment - it must look like generic spam. Really though, Protopage.com is another AJAX start page like netvibes and google.com/ig etc etc
Permalink to Comment4. Stowe Boyd on September 27, 2005 08:22 AM writes...
Actually, I was there yesterday. I haven't signed up yet, but will.
- Stowe
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