Grand unified feed aggregation dohicky
Dear Lazyweb,
Currently, my LJ friends list (via the regular boring web interface) is my RSS feed aggregater. I want to replace it with a feed (RSS+LJ+facebook+twitter+xyz) reader with the following characteristics:
* MUST be web based. MAY use that newfangled AJAX. MUST not suck on non-IE browsers.
* MUST display stuff in chronological order, rather than reverse-chronological. When I go to read stuff, I repeatedly hit the "previous 25 entries" link until I see something I recognize, then keep browser back-arrowing till I hit the most recent, then hit reload to see what's come in since I first hit the front page. LAME.
* MUST have a temporal bookmark sort of feature. SHOULD let me explicitly indicate at some point in the timeline that I've read up through here, and next time I hit the main page, the firehose of feeds displays from then on. MAY use some other magic "he's read this already" technology, if it doesn't suck.
* MUST be able to display friends-only entries from LJ/twitter/facebook/whatever. MAY require that I trust this 3rd party with my service-specific passwords.
* SHOULD have some auto-truncating feature on all entries over N pixels long. I love thornyc's long photo entries (e.g., the super-recent gay Life magazine photos from the early 70s), but I don't always want to scroll through the whole darn thing.
I really don't want to write this myself. But what are my options?
Currently, my LJ friends list (via the regular boring web interface) is my RSS feed aggregater. I want to replace it with a feed (RSS+LJ+facebook+twitter+xyz) reader with the following characteristics:
* MUST be web based. MAY use that newfangled AJAX. MUST not suck on non-IE browsers.
* MUST display stuff in chronological order, rather than reverse-chronological. When I go to read stuff, I repeatedly hit the "previous 25 entries" link until I see something I recognize, then keep browser back-arrowing till I hit the most recent, then hit reload to see what's come in since I first hit the front page. LAME.
* MUST have a temporal bookmark sort of feature. SHOULD let me explicitly indicate at some point in the timeline that I've read up through here, and next time I hit the main page, the firehose of feeds displays from then on. MAY use some other magic "he's read this already" technology, if it doesn't suck.
* MUST be able to display friends-only entries from LJ/twitter/facebook/whatever. MAY require that I trust this 3rd party with my service-specific passwords.
* SHOULD have some auto-truncating feature on all entries over N pixels long. I love thornyc's long photo entries (e.g., the super-recent gay Life magazine photos from the early 70s), but I don't always want to scroll through the whole darn thing.
I really don't want to write this myself. But what are my options?