Feedpaper

February 16th, 2004

Blake and I have been trying to figure out what to do with the right side of LISFeeds for a while. Blake came up with an incredible idea: A Daypop type page for the weblogs that we display on the site. Perfect. Now, how to build it?

Today while in the shower (I do my best thinking in the shower) I thought that Feedster might be able to help out, because they are behind the new John Kerry Aggregator. I didn’t have much time to spend online today, let alone send an IM to Scott re: my shower idea. Thus, when I read over at John Batelle’s weblog that anyone can build a Feedpaper, I did the patented Hip Hip Hooray, Suweeeeet, and Jenny’s Happy Dance all at once. After I picked myself off the floor and cared for my wounds, I IM’d Scott with another Suweeeeet!! and a virtual “I’m not worthy” and quickly started to create my own Feedpaper. The link should be live here soon (it takes a bit of time to create). A few features include:

1) You will get a simple code to place on your website which will display your Feedpaper (you can play with the colors too).

2) An RSS Feed for all the sources in your Feedpaper.

3) A search feature.

4) Up to ten feeds to put into your personalized Feedpaper.

While there hasn’t been an “official” announcement yet (They have been showing it off at Demo 2004), I do have a few suggestions for future releases of this product:

1) The ability to arrange the feeds in the Feedpaper according to popularity. The best way to measure this would probably be the number of times a specific post gets linked. This would be perfect for LISFeeds because we wanted the most popular posts on top.

2) Obviously, the ability to add more than 10 feeds (not that I’m complaining).

Update - Maybe I jumped the gun on this new service. My Feedpaper still hasn’t been created. I’m sure that they are just working out some of the kinks.

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