ColdFusion RSS Aggregator

Posted At : October 11, 2006 11:17 PM | Posted By : Rob Gonda
Related Categories: Coldfusion

Not sure who's behind this yet, but my FeedDemon just picked up a new ColdFusion RSS Aggregator: cffeeds.com It's a nice simple design, fast, not sure what advantages it would have over MXNA, nonetheless, yet another CF resource that's worth mentioning.

posted on October 11, 2006 at 11:17 PM by Rob Gonda

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I can't find my feed on there, this agg must suck.

Just kidding. But seriously, do we really need another agg?

# Posted By todd sharp | 10/11/06 11:45 PM

hi Rob - i'm not sure if we do really - also with great news aggregators like bloglines, google reader this really doesn't appear to anything new??

# Posted By nick tong | 10/12/06 4:34 AM

First, why are you not on fullasagoog?

Interestingly I found cffeeds last night as I was contemplating making another aggregator myself. I dont' see a need for the kind cffeeds.com is, as fullasagoog does well in that regard, but I thought it would be very handy for us to have the ability to fine tune by category the items in the final feed.

Something like:
[coldfusion] Beginner, Moderate, Advanced, Product Promotion Specific, OS Specific, Flex Integration, etc.
[flash] Beginner, Moderate, Advanced, Product Promotion Specific, OS Specific, Flex Integration, etc.
[js] Beginner, Moderate, Advanced, Product Promotion Specific, OS Specific, Flex Integration, etc
[etc]

So some may opt for all, others just advanced and OS, etc. At that point one could easily extend it to other languages and technologies, etc. My other thought was that the aggregator would be opt in. I don't think it is right to just take the feeds without at least a passive 'sure, go for it' email or something.

Maybe there is already something like that out there? I haven't found a cf version of it yet, but just staretd looking.

# Posted By Joshua Cyr | 10/12/06 9:55 AM

Guilty. I put this up about a month and a half ago before I had ever heard of FullAsGoog. My intent was never compitition with that site, nor any of the sites that allow you to bring in your own feeds. Wasn't ever really planning to go anywhere with it, it was just a neat place for me to get a bunch of CF articles in one place to peek at.

As far as permission, my thought process was that in most cases it's only grabbing the short feed (sending people to your blog to get the full story), and it gives full credit to the blog that owns it before you get there. If anyone is uncomfortable with it listed there, shoot an email to rss@cffeeds.com.

# Posted By Christopher | 10/12/06 4:15 PM

I have to support Christopher here. If you run a blog and if you offer a rss feed, then that is in my eyes a clear "go ahead" to any subscriber, be it a private person or an aggregator. Sure it'd be nice to get a notification just to know where you are aggregated, but I don't think aggregators are obliged to do this either.

# Posted By Trond Ulseth | 10/13/06 4:42 AM

That is a good point. Options are usually a good thing. And more importantly not everyone is aware of all the options out there. It is easy to forget that.

Still not sure about the aggregator permissions thing. I suppose it all depends on the aggregator. If it sends traffic and has a good rep, then great. If it is focused on scraping and misleading the content, and getting google adwords clicks, then not so good. CFFeeds seems just fine from that perspective.

# Posted By Joshua Cyr | 10/13/06 10:11 AM

I agree with you all. RSS feeds are public, thus can be used for any purpose... that's aggregation, and what Web2.0 is all about (horrible name I know, but I like the shift). Joshua's idea is good, but it would require to rate every blog entry, and unless you allow visitors to do it, no one would actually go through that process...

# Posted By Rob Gonda | 10/16/06 12:14 AM

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