Archive for October, 2006

MetaRSS Diagram

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

Essentiall, MetaRSS is comprised of the following components:

A cron job
An indexer
Metafilter content
An HTML cache
The user interface

The process is initiated by a user request for an RSS feed. This is currently done with a Greasemonkey script or a bookmarklet. The request simply feeds the user interface a URL. The user interface caches the […]

SourceForge

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

MetaRSS was approved, though DNS still has not updated.
More to come.

MetaRSS: The Open Source Project

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

It’s no secret: MetaRSS was hacked together with the best of intentions in the least amount of time possible. As such, MetaRSS went live in alpha and never saw much further development. Since that time, the name has been taken by another company, several bugs have been discovered (more on that later), reported, […]