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RE: [syndication] ANN: groove tool "NewsClient"
Howdy,
A very
nice tool indeed. I'm very glad indeed to see RSS getting into the Groove,
as it were[1].
A
couple of comments/bug-reports:
* I can't immediately see any way to manually edit a feed's preferences (eg.
change the title or
description)
* 'Create a custom channel' is a little misleading, having you go through
Moreover. While
this is indeed a great feature,
perhaps rename this to 'Create a custom Moreover feed'
and have 'Create a
custom channel' provide a form (name, data url,
...).
* In 'Browse' view, clicking on some of the news items causes an 'Error in
ShowLinkedNewsItem:
'null' is not an object'
error. This does not occur in 'Headlines' view.
Overall, a great job, folks.
Rael
We're
producing a Groove-based news client tool. It's available (Alpha-2
release) for some early testing if anyone here would like to. We think
it's quite functional and moderately stable; there are a few tweaks, and
one major feature still missing. During the alpha & beta tests the
tool will be free; the final version will be a commercial product, but
we've not worked on pricing at this stage.
Supports RSS 0.9x, 1.0 and scriptingNews formats.
Reads OCS and OPML channel lists.
(The major missing feature, if anyone's interested, is something in the
vein of SuperOpenRatings: having Groove users comment on news items
and/or rate them, and feeding "public" comments back to a SOAP server which
republishes them in turn as an RSS feed. Early days, for this
piece...)