Wow! I am excited.

at Saturday, February 11, 2006

Why?
Because I have become productive after a long span of time. :)

It was just last night when I thought it would be cool to have a software that would tell me when one of my blog-friends has posted a new post. Opening all of them wasn't really the best of the ideas. So, I googled for it. Didn't find anything worthy enough. Then, it struck me.

Why don't I write one myself?

Didn't seem like a tough task. It was enough for me to get started. A few hours of !sleeping and here it stands, the pre pre alpha version of the app.

Brief description:

  • It takes a normal text file with the blog names to be polled as the input.
  • It tells you the last post date on these blogs.
  • Works only for blogger, well atleast for now.
  • Since it is only one night old, may have bugs.
One thing I observed is that it started off as a simple webpage poller. But now, I can think of so many features that can be added to it. e.g.
  • Find the number of new posts after a given date.
  • Get all the new posts after a given date.
  • Get the comment(s) on the post(s).
  • Extend from blogger to other popular ones like LJ.
  • Scan the profile and get info like email id, IM, etc.
  • Suggestions and comments that I get from friends
Apoorv gets his personalized copy and free updates ;). He is the reason why it is there in place.

People interested in getting there hands on it, drop me a mail.

7 Comments:

  1. Pal said...
    Sat Feb 11, 03:48:00 PM IST
    abe, why don't u publish this somewhere? say sourceforge?
    I'd like to have a copy of the app too :)
    Neeta said...
    Mon Feb 13, 12:01:00 AM IST
    sounds cool..btw what do u do?
    Apoorv Gawde said...
    Mon Feb 13, 11:24:00 AM IST
    Thanks buddy, appreciate it.
    Neeta said...
    Tue Feb 14, 01:58:00 PM IST
    software engg..huh..
    i guess u dropped in a smiley for one of blogs..tht way i landed..!
    Neha said...
    Sat May 27, 10:13:00 AM IST
    but dont we get all these features by default?? i mean they are provided by blogpost!!
    i dunnoo....too illiterate when it comes to computers...
    puneet said...
    Sat May 27, 11:34:00 AM IST
    hahaha .... but the whole fun lies is making sumthin urself ... but anyway, i have ditched the idea now tho ....
    sudhindra said...
    Sat Oct 21, 02:07:00 AM IST
    abey have u heard of rss.. that is what it is supposed to do.. also you do not need to publish it either.. there are scrapers that will help u publish the rss for you.. and u can use google home page or any rss reader to get notified.... duh

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