Syndic8.com is now accepting registrations

["Jeff Barr" <jeff@vertexdev.com>]

Hi Everyone,

Well, as always its taken a bit longer than planned, but I now 
have the skeleton of a syndication evangelism site running 
at www.syndic8.com.

None of the sections have any permanent content yet. Instead, each 
one contains a page or so describing what I expect to have in the 
section. Please go ahead and read these, and let the list know 
what you think.

The only functioning code is in the user registration section. 
You might as well go ahead and register now, and make sure
that you can log in. My plan is that most of the services will 
be available only to registered users. Please go ahead and 
register, and report any bugs or problems to me. 

Next on my list is posting of my existing set of feeds, and then 
rendering of the feed list in OCS. This will happen within a 
week or so.

I have planned (in my head) a very cool system that will allow 
registered users to extend the feed table by defining additional 
columns (which will be stored separately) and a custom rendering 
into XML for these columns. In this way, the core data will be 
clean and not slanted toward any particular client, but it will 
be customizable so as to be able to serve those clients. For 
example, I want to store a couple of extra flags and values that 
will be mainly useful to Headline Viewer. I will define these as 
additional columns that will be stored separately. There is a 
picture of this system on the XML page.

Once we have all of this, then I will work on the core of the
site -- a centralized list of desired feeds, and a simple and
elegant workflow mechanism that will let us coordinate our
efforts to get sites to syndicate. 

I want to make this a community site in the best possible sense 
of the word. I also want to make sure that those who put the most 
in to the site get the most out. In particular, I am not going to 
permit very much "read-only" access. If you want the data, you 
are going to have to participate. 

For now we can use syndication to discuss this; if things get 
really busy then I will set up a separate list.

Enjoy,

Jeff;

PS - Blame Outlook XP for any formatting issues with this
     message. It likes to remove random newlines from messages
     that are in plain-text format.

Jeff Barr - Vertex Development - (mailto:jeff@vertexdev.com)
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