Re: [syndication] Re: Channel 3475 - Please advise

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

That sounds pretty complicated. Maybe Dan will write the software for us?
;-> Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Swartz" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 5:37 AM
Subject: [syndication] Re: Channel 3475 - Please advise


> Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:
>
> >> Netscape made it one. Can we do the same?
> > I don't know. Can we?
>
> Yeah, I think so -- and that's what Dan is proposing.
>
> If we put something in the HEAD tag of the document, then each system
could
> have a Bookmarklet (like blogThis and Manila Express) that said "Add this
to
> My.UserLand". When they clicked the bookmarklet, My Userland (or whatever)
> would grab that page and search it for the right tag and then use the RSS
> file.
>
> You could do the same thing without Bookmarklets by just asking them for
the
> URL of the site they want to add.
>
> If the site doesn't have an RSS file, perhaps you can keep checking it
> anyway and notify them when the page changes.
>
> --
> [ Aaron Swartz | me@aaronsw.com | http://www.aaronsw.com ]
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