Library clips

Haven’t used this but it seems interesting.

From the website:

“Quece is a new search technology that enables Internet users to find information on the web by chatting with their computer”

“Quece will translate your thoughts directly into a highly accurate search request”

[via IM chat with chopianissima]

Bookmarklet that pops up a box with a list of all feed URL’s on the current page you are viewing…the idea is that you can choose one to preview or graze before you commit to subscribing.

This is kind of similar to an older post about a bookmarklet to make a list of any type of URL’s on a current page, but this one above is limiting it to feed URL’s.

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TechCrunch points to Webaroo an offline webstorage service.

What I like is that you can index a batch of websites to view offline…you will be able to browse any page on that website, like you are on the web. Also if a website links to an external webpage, you can index just that webpage as well…I wonder if you can search all the websites you have indexed in one go (in case each website doesn’t have its own search box).

Webaroo have also organised webpacks, these are topic packs you can download to browse and search offline.

RSS Reading

What if you are on the train on the way home with a laptop on your lap with no connection to read feeds?

All you have to do before you leave work is fire up your desktop RSS Reader, then index all the webpages (not websites neccessarily, although this would be good…so if you subscribe to 50 feeds, you download the index of 50 whole websites, or maybe you can just index the webpage of every post in your RSS Reader)…and also index all the outgoing links from every item from every feed in your RSS Reader.

This way when you are on the train, you can launch your desktop RSS Reader and read the latest posts, if they are only summaries just click to the native post, even browse around that site (if the whole site is indexed opposed to just the webpage).

When reading a post in your RSS reader click on a hyperlink in the body of a post, this will open up that webpage.

So, I guess, it will emulate an experience like you are online.

Read, Research, and Draft (the blog post process)

When I read feeds I like to bookmark, so if your desktop Feed Reader has a bookmarks clippings section you are in business.
I also like to clip/draft posts to blog about, if you use a desktop blogging client, then you are in business once again.

Although when I’m drafting a post I like to retrieve and maybe reference some of my old posts and webpages I point to in those posts, so I would need to index offline my whole blog, and each outgoing link (hyperlinked webpage).

Maybe I’d also like to index the webpage of each “read” item in my RSS Reader, or at least the one’s I have bookmarked.

Then when you are back online you can publish all your posts, collect all your unread items, and hop on the train again for your offline blogging process.

Email

If I’m online I can collect all my new emails, and read the new mail in my desktop email client offline, the only thing is that if there are hyperlinks in these email’s, I won’t be able to connect to these URL’s as I’m not online.
I wonder if Webaroo can index all hyperlinks in your new mail automatically, so when you read your new mail offline you can click to URL’s just like the online experience.

UPDATED 27/04/06: Feedbite : Reading List folksonomy

Feedbite allows you to splice and filter feeds, then you can share them and discover other feeds, and bundles of feeds. aggRSSive comes straight to mind as a service that allows you to splice feeds and share them…some others.

You can also tag your spliced/filtered feeds for sharing and discovery…so it is kind of a spliced feed folksonomy, but not a native feed folksonomy.
At the same time you can view contents of your spliced/filtered feeds, so this makes it a newsmaster (river of news) folksonomy.

The only thing missing is an OPML for each bundle (spliced/filtered feeds), this would make it a Reading List folksonomy as well.

Features

Bundle - create a group of feeds…shareable
(Feeds can’t be on their own, they must be part of a bundle)

Feedbite - filtered keyword/s over all the feeds in bundle

My feed - create your own feed (and add it to a bundle)…from the FAQ:
“The best part of the My Feeds option is the ‘Add to My Feed’ link you will find next to all the articles. While you’re reading, if you find something interesting, just click that link and you can add the article to your feed and add your commentary”.
This feature is similar to FeedXS, and LinkRSS, and publi.sh…but it is more like a linkblog.

Browse

Browse the latest or most popular bundles or browse them via the inbuilt categories page (you can search for bundle names).
When you hover over a bundle on the front page it brings up the latest items on the adjacent column.
You’ll notice you can save a bundle, and also save an item to your feed.

Here are all the bundles in the Internet category.

For each bundle in the list there is:
- a link to the category it belongs in
- a spliced feed
- save the bundle to your user account
- search full-text of the bundle (every item/post in every feed)
- view the feeds in the bundle
- look at the user account who created this bundle

River of News folksonomy

This is where it becomes powerful, not only can you make and share spliced feeds, but you can view the contents in your own newmaster topic page, and as mentioned you can search full-text…equally great is that you can view contents from just one feed, just like Blogdigger Groups and Kinja.

There is also an advanced search:
- search for bundles
- search a user
- search a category
- search a bundle (full-text post searching)

How is this different from Kinja?

Not only can you create your own bundle, but you can collect other bundles, even clone/edit them into new bundles

Create as many bundles as you like under the one account…your personal page lists all your bundles plus the ones you have collected, hover over one to see the river of news

You can filter for keywords when creating a bundle…see more

Neither can filter for just one feed

You can’t import an OPML (batch load heaps of feeds in one go), unlike in Kinja

Built in search to find feeds to add to your bundle (not sure what engine it uses)

You can’t tag each feed…therefore it isn’t a feed folksonomy, but…

You can tag your bundles…this makes it a spliced feed folksonomy…although it doesn’t seem they have implemented tag discovery as of yet
(this is like tagging your spliced feeds, so it is a folksonomy for spliced feeds but not for native feeds…whereas Kinja is a folksonomy for native feeds, you can tag your feeds and each of your tags will have an OPML)

It lacks an OPML for each bundle so it is not yet a Reading List Folksonomy…whereas Kinja has this feature for each tag, but since you can’t tag your account in Kinja you can’t maximise sharing and discovery
- When you add feeds to Kinja you can tag them, all feeds with a tag can be viewed as a river of news as well (generates a spliced feed, and an OPML Reading List)…this also applies to the aggregated community level
- When you search in Kinja it lists heaps of feeds with this search term, this also generates a spliced feed and an OPML Reading List

Since you can’t tag native feeds, when looking at content from just one feed it can’t list related native feeds that also have this tag, Kinja has this feature

Kinja also lists a statistics profile for each native feed, including backlinks

Create your own feed, as many as you like
- Basically like a link-log (lacks permalinks, there not a link blog), add a title, and the URL you are pointing to, add a description…if you skip the URL field and just add content in the desciption, it would like blogging a post (max. 1024 characters).
- When you are reading posts (river of news) from any bundle you can add a post to one of your feeds
- I wonder if there is a bookmarket to add the webpage you are viewing to your feed

- You can use these feeds as a digest from your bundles, create one for each bundle…add items from a bundle to your feed (kind of like clipping the best posts from your bundle)…MySyndicaat has a digest like this, but my concern was to be able to clip from your RSS reader like reBlog.

Actually the downside of this in Feedbite is that your custom feed has to belong in a bundle, so maybe make a bundle where your custom feed is the only feed.

Here is my user space.

Here is a bundle
…from this bundle I can clip posts to a feed I created, then I made a new bundle with just this feed in it, so you can view it (this is like a clip blog).

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