http://blogs.divisibleprime.com/ronin/articles/2006/09/04/venus en-us 40 Stuff <p><a href="http://intertwingly.net/blog">Sam Ruby</a> has been giving out plenty of examples from his <a href="http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/">version</a> of the <a href="http://www.planetplanet.org/">Planet</a> software, called Venus.</p> <p>Here are the posts so far: <a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/09/02/Venus-Reading-Lists">Reading Lists</a>, <a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/09/01/Venus-Filters">Filters</a>, <a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/09/03/MeMeme">MeMeme</a>, <a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/09/04/Stream-Editing">Stream Editing</a>.</p> <p>For me, what this needs is to be hooked up to a real database. So the configuration, including the list of subscriptions, and the cache of feeds would be stored in some relational schema. The reason why I think this is important is that for me it opens the data to be used by many different apps without needing access to the filesystem. Sam gives a good <a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/09/03/MeMeme">example</a> of using Ruby to re-use the data contained in the feed cache. </p> <p>Once something like that is in place it could start moving towards being more of a feedreader than just an aggregator of feeds.</p> <p>I think the coolest part about this is(as <a href="http://bitworking.org">Joe Gregario</a> pointed <a href="http://bitworking.org/news/Venus_Filters">out</a>, it transforms all of the data into Atom as part of the filtering process. It opens many possibilities, most of which I would bet haven&#8217;t even been conceived of yet.</p> <p>And now I realise that <a href="http://tvrss.co.uk">tvrss</a> is almost exactly the same as Planet, but for a specific source of data. Oh well, it&#8217;s character building.</p> Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:50:00 +0100 urn:uuid:30cce32f-7cf2-491b-97dc-859aead9d9e0 Kerry http://blogs.divisibleprime.com/ronin/articles/2006/09/04/venus Tech Syndication