Library clips

It seems Bloglines may be ready to listen to their users, isn’t the forum for this sort of thing, anyone listening out there….

Anyway it seems you can leave a comment or trackback at Read/WriteWeb, which the Bloglines crew will scan.

Well where do I start, all this stuff is scattered over many posts, maybe my last Rojo post may be a good start.

Anyway here is the list:

• River of News for all subscription, also at the folder level

  At the moment when you click on a folder you still have to view contents by feed, what about viewing all items by folder all mixed up sorted by date.

• Feed for every folder (see Rojo, Feedmarker)
• Search in just one feed/s, also search in a folder/s, search in just title, with an RSS to boot (check box system)

  Come on, this will allow customised microcontent

• Personalisation option (see searchfox)
• Citation search feed
• Non-local search feeds from other RSS engines or social bookmarks from within Bloglines (see BlogBridge)
• Flagged items to read later should go in a flagged folder (aggregate these instead of them just being scattered)
• Ability to rename a folder
• Clips blog to be a proper blog
• A feed for the Public reader version
• Allow to customise the presentation for the public version, also already show the latest items as a river of news, ie. a proper Public RSS Aggregator…similar to Blogdigger Groups
• Virtual desktop perspective of your account…see Fyuze
• RSS for clippings folders…like Newsgator Online
• If all folders have feeds, can these be shared in a folksonomy…leads to local community discovery
• If all clippings folders have feeds, can these be shared in a folksonomy…leads to local community discovery
• Blog this (to a non-local blog)
• Bookmark this (to an non-local clippings account)
• Comment this (like RSS Bandit)
• Print this
• Bloglines citation for every item
• Contacts address book for when you email items
• Remix (splice & filter feeds)
• Clip to an offline client like Qumana
• Remove duplicate URL feature…like FeedDigest
• Threading like URL’s (see Sharpreader)
• Collapse similar items (new and old), like Google News and Memeorandom
• Notifier like Sharpreader, even limit to select feeds or folders
• OPML at the folder level, or even select feeds (check box) to put in an OPML (see Feedmarker)
• Choice to expand/collapse feed contents on the main page…like Rojo

Oh yeah, and somehow show a community view around an item (similar to the Sharpreader threading feature mentioned above, but in a different visual view)…see NusEye.

…well at least some of these features anyway!

So we have seen many Public RSS Aggregators of late and other types that just focus on the displaying part, such as some virtual desktops like Fyuze.

Well Robin Good has introduced us to Backbase, all you have to do is check out his example to get the idea.

Besides showing the latest content in each column (you can even hide these) it also shows the feed, and also an archive.

If you click on an item a pop up box or a box docked on the bottom of your screen will show the contents of that item, then click to the native site if you wish…there are also icons to print or email the item.

Now the best till last…sure you can search, but the advanced search allows to search in fields like:

Full-text (Boolean)
Title (Boolean)
Author (Boolean)
Date range
All sources or (one or multiple)

These are great especially the last feature, as Bloglines only searches in all your subscriptions, you can’t limit to just one feed, you have to do it via an RSS engine.

Wait there’s more:

Give your search a name and save it, then tab to Saved Searches, viola an RSS feed.

So now you can filter content to the most microscopic denominator from within the reader…only thing missing is to search within a category.

You may only like some of Robin’s content so to alleviate RSS overload ( scrolling through all his content) just view the content you want.
In the example you may choose to see items in your RSS reader from:
only two of his sources, when the term “rss” only appears in the title and the author has to be “Robin” (handy to see articles from only one author in a group blog).

They hope to introduce OPML importing in the future, it just depends how popular Backbase becomes to warrant further development.

Here is another example from their website.

To create your own you have to download it to your server, that’s an obstacle for me.

Check this out, web 2.0 to the max!

Ning enables you to clone or make your own web 2.0 applications.

Make your own del.icio.us, or wiki, or blog, or anything.

How good is this for us non-techies, now we can stop complaining about the features of the applications out there and make our own instead.

What a great idea as so many of us are frustrated, if only I knew programming etc…this is truly leveraging the pool of talent of the web 2.0 users.

A machine to press your own…this is a hallmark product.

Here’s the FAQ on cloning or building your own app.

Join the Ning pivot folksonomy which is to share bookmarks of Ning apps people have created…browse by applications, users , tags, or content types.

Now what can I make…

[via TechCrunch]