I have to admit the first time I heard about pubsubhubbub I was pretty skeptical. I mean your telling me that every rss feed is going to need to change and be more active, PIPE DREAM… Of course I failed myself by just reading the “hub bub” and not taking the time to read the actual protocol. …

Here’s another first for me, a Greasemonkey script to put Search links into the nav area of Google Reader.
Userscripts.org
Unfortunately I didn’t have time to build in a way to store search topics in cookies, maybe next version.
I was surprised at the lack of search operators. I expected to be able to search just the title or return only unread …

This is just the beginning of a project i’ve been wanting to kick start for some time now. If you’ve read this blog before you’ve heard me mention a .net rss engine I built for my own web based feed reader. This is the open source version of that engine written in python with a mysql backend. …

There are a number of search engines that are exposing their results as RSS feeds. From this I had an idea and built a little app at work that collected RSS posts from about 40+ search engines to help track brands across the internet. It occurred to me that others might want to do the same thing so …

I’ve been making tons of updates to my RSS Reader but I’ve been very lax in updating on this blog. So here’s a Flickr Slideshow of the work as it stands.

I’ve annotated the screenshots on Flickr. You can view those here RSS Reader Set

This was the first idea I had when I saw the mini-window real-time friendfeed. It moves the main content of twitter over a bit and puts a friendfeed window on the left. I also got it to put a search bar over the home section.
Get it here, friendfeed_on_twitter.user.js
Here’s just the search bar script, twitter_search.user.js
I also found out that …

I ran across the need to decrypt some stored procedures. I’m writing an interface to a large enterprise application that the company I work for makes. I just want to see the stored procedure code so I could understand what it was doing. Everytime I asked for access to the source code it was like I was …

I’ve found that there are just a ton of articles that I can’t really read. I took a look at the older unread articles and most are either not that interesting to me or about something I already read. I figure those articles can just go away and I’ll never know or care, so I built in articles …

I’m about half way through setting up a new feature called bundles on my rss reader. I’ve found that following rss via tags is a pretty good way to go but sometimes I’m doing research on an overarching topic and I need a something to bring it all together.
As it stands now a bundle is a group …

Until I get the time to create a new video, I’ll just update pieces.
This is the side navigation for my media.home application as it pertains to my news reader.

Tag Cloud – This opens a tag cloud that shows the current tags associated with unread articles. After I’m finished reading the articles directly associated with a chosen tag, I’m prompted …