[ubuntu-in] Ideas for a RSS Reader

[Abhishek Puri]

Hi All,

Here is the "idea" for the RSS Reader. Please put in your ideas and
contribute.

1) It's possible to develop in Adobe Air (I have no knowledge about this
thing):
<
http://www.thetechlabs.com/tech-tutorials/xml/creating-an-air-rss-reader-application-from-scratch-with-flex-puremvc/
>

But can help to get you ideas to focus on what you need.

2) Similarly,
http://visualrinse.com/2008/09/24/how-to-build-a-simple-rss-reader-with-jquery/might
help you; for "natural query" ?

3) I had forwarded a link to Kumar on the a server based deployed RSS reader
called as News Blur. I have written to the developer for an "offline
version" because to be honest, I don't understand why should I trust my
"data" to an unknown person. Luckily, he's made an open source solution. If
you search Duckduckgo for news blur, you'd find a lot of relevant links.
*https://github.com/vvarp/NewsBlur* is the source code for the application.

I wonder how much "natural language processing" can take place in the
offline mode. He's done it in a simple manner. What others have done by
"PostRank", he's done on the fly by perhaps Keyword Filtering.

4) Last but not the least. There is another open source *RSS reader called
as Vienna on Mac OS. *
Here's something I have liked : http://www.vienna-rss.org/?page_id=27 i.e.
ability to get the complete article in the reader.

5) I have debated the idea of having a browser+RSS combo; there are
excellent open source browsers (Midori/Arora) based on web kit. Should it be
integrated/extended? I would prefer some sort of integration because that
would help to browse through the article in the reading pane. Alternatively,
Thunderbird has an option called as Thunderbird which adds "browser
functionality" inside the mail client. I tried it but found it buggy and
useless.

6) Would it be possible to improve upon the existing Feed Reader+ browser
combination in existing open source product? No one can stop us from forking
a thunderbird release with a better RSS reader if the developers are not
interested for a better RSS reader in the long run. The advantages are
obvious. A mail client+already existing code+better option for a RSS
reader.

This fairly rounds up the ideas. Is anyone interested?

Thanks!
Dr. A. Puri
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