Re: [syndication] RSS 0.92 Applications

[Brian Aker <brian@tangent.org>]

andybking@yahoo.com wrote:
> as dave mentioned i'm writing a story on rss for webref.com.
> i'm looking for interesting applications of rss 0.92. can you
> let me know of any? also, 0.91 thoughts/apps (though skip the
> obvious ones of course) would be appreciated. tx
I have a few applications that are kinda neat. 

mod_index_rss allows you to take directories
from Apache servers and publish their contents via RSS. I am using
it to keep track some image directories so that I know when new
images have been published (this can be used by pretty much
anything though).
http://tangent.org/mod_index_rss/

mod_mp3  is the streaming server for Apache. You can request
information from the server via RSS (for instance you can
either ask for the collection of music that the server is
sending or you can search on a pattern and get an RSS
list of just what was in that pattern).
http://media.tangent.org/

For Slashdot (this is not installed yet on Slashdot, but I do
have it on Slashcode.com) the new search engine takes
requests and will respond via RSS. So you can search for
Comments/users/Stories and have it return the data
via RSS. Just about every component of Slash including
the problem tracker will spit out RSS if you ask it to 
(so for instance I can follow new reports on certain bugs
based on their bug ID and have Evolution display them for
me). BTW, if you are a Linux user and have not tried
Evolution, then you should. It has some great features
for an Outlook like application.
http://slashcode.com/

	-Brian

--
_______________________________________________________
Brian Aker, brian@tangent.org 
Slashdot Senior Developer
Seattle, Washington
http://tangent.org/~brian/
http://slashdot.org/
_______________________________________________________
You can't grep a dead tree.