Re: [syndication] Re: RSS Monkey is out

[James Lindën <jlinden@assimilatethe.net>]

Why not just an RSS to WML parser? This would provide the lightweight data
that PDA really needs, without much hassle. I would even be willing to make
my RSS to WML parser available to the general public for this purpose.

James Lindën / KodeKrash
http://www.assimilatethe.net


----- Original Message -----
From: <markkraft@yahoo.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 8:35 AM
Subject: [syndication] Re: RSS Monkey is out


> I found a new use for RSS Monkey that I have been playing around with
> this weekend.
>
> I got a Handspring recently that has gotten me really into AvantGo,
> largely due to a really sweet LJ AvantGo client which supports
> posting at hotsyncs. (http://www.moobug.co.uk/pocketlj)
>
> For those not familiar, AvantGo allows you to save websites to your
> PDA for later reading. The problem is that the web wasn't made for
> PDAs. You can burn through a lot of your available memory really
> quickly and the formatting leaves a lot to be desired. If you want
> AvantGo to save a weblog and all the stories it links to, well... it
> will try to save every link on the page. With site navigation and a
> huge blogroll, that's enough data to choke a horse.
>
> Unlike HTML, RSS feeds are considerably less cluttered. However, to
> the best of my knowledge there isn't a RSS reader for PalmOS. You
> can, however, send your favorite RSS feeds to RSS Monkey and have it
> generate clean, friendly html pages.
>
> This works best with RSS feeds that syndicate the body text too.
> Metafilter, for example.
>
> Mark
> LiveJournal.com
>
> --- In syndication@y..., { d m p } <dmp@f...> wrote:
> > Hi Syndicators --
> >
> > That new RSS software I mentioned? It's out, and it's even cooler
> than I'd
> > said before.
> >
> > RSS Monkey is a really simple, really customizable, personal RSS
> > aggregator. It's easy to install (upload, untar, chmod, and change
> one line
> > and it's working). You can use it to produce whole pages, or as an
> SSI, or
> > (and here's where things get interesting) to produce javascript
> versions of
> > any RSS feed. So now you can offer your visitors one easy cut-and-
> paste
> > line to put your headlines on their site.
> >
> > You can check out the monkey here:
> > http://brandbenbrown.com/display.html/rssmonkey
> >
> > And you can play with my install of it here:
> > http://powazek.com/rss/monkey/
> >
> > I also posted an example of the javascript syndication here:
> > http://www.powazek.com/zoom/log/archive/00000221.shtml
> >
> > Personally, I'm stoked!
> >
> > -- Derek
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -+-
> > Derek M. Powazek, real person
> >  home - http://powazek.com/log/
> >  work - http://powazek.com/forhire/
> >  book - http://designforcommunity.com/
>
>
>
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