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SnackUpon Creates An RSS Feed Tailored To Your Tastes
Posted by Adam Pash at 9:00 AM on September 18, 2008
Yahoo Pipes mashup SnackUpon takes the ideas behind two popular web applications—Delicious and StumbleUpon—and creates a customised RSS feed that delivers content you might like based on your Delicious bookmarks. The idea is brilliant: You already subscribe to sites with your newsreader because they deliver content that you like, but you don't have much control over what content the publisher of that site covers. With SnackUpon, it's like you've created a blog that publishes content based solely on your likes. Granted, that assumes the SnackUpon works as advertised, but after testing it out on my Delicious account, this is one feed I'm planning to keep in my newsreader. If you plug in your Delicious ID, let's hear how well SnackUpon matches your taste in the comments.
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Quine
Posted 3:49 PM 18/9/08
Looks awesome! Yahoo Pipes is really cool.
Quine
bfos7215
Posted 7:46 AM 19/9/08
Could the input be any RSS feed? I would like to have SnackUpon be sourced from my starred or shared items in Google Reader.
bfos7215
Jordan Sissel
Posted 3:13 PM 19/9/08
Sounds like a reasonable request. If nobody gets to it before me, I'll look into adding it.
Jordan Sissel
kentbrew
Posted 1:49 AM 20/9/08
Jordan: you might want to consider moving randomtags.py over to a service like appspot ... if this gets nuts it could melt semicomplete.com into a puddle. :)
kentbrew
KeatonPashosh
Posted 1:00 AM 19/9/08
As RSS becomes more and more popular it is interesting to see what kinds of things people do with it. Managing the deluge seems to be one of the hardest things, especially since most RSS readers act like email applications, leaving articles unread and demanding of attention— I couldn't think of anything much more stressful than an overflowing inbox. One neat solution I have seen (Disclaimer: It's produced by some people in my office) is Melkjug (http://www.melkjug.org), which thinks outside the inbox model and focuses instead on filtering.
KeatonPashosh