So you blog, tweet, put photos on flickr, bookmark on delicious, and so on, and you expect your friends to subscribe to blogger, twitter, flickr, and so on to see what your doing?
Do them a favor.
friendfeed.com and sweetcron.com will aggregate all of your sources for your friends.
Here's mine:
http://friendfeed.com/davecs855
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I like FriendFeed - I was able to see your info all in one place. I think I'll use it, too. Twitter did not see very usefil to me but I could have missed the point....
Thanks Dave. When "there has to be a better way" somebody is probably already developing the application. Great time saver !!!
Have you looked into how these agregation systems are implemented? I'm curious about what languages are being used. There are now so many to choose from like pytho, perl, php etc.
Nigel
I found an (old-ish) article here: http://www.vldb.org/conf/2006/p1219-kowalkiewicz.pdf suggesting that this is done with XPath. But that really is just a mechanism for parsing XML trees. To make agregation (and similar tasks) easy to do we need very high level abstractions and I don't think we have that yet. I'd like to be able to say "If there is a thingy around here on the page then put it about here on my page".
Nigel
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