Jul 24, 2007
Engadget pipes
I was perusing Yahoo Pipes today (gotta love it) and was somewhat shocked (and impressed!) to happen upon some 70-80 custom Engadget feeds. Users have created custom feeds for everything from honing in on Apple and Wii and BlackBerry news to combining Engadget and Gizmodo into a single, mammoth gadget news feed. But oddly enough, despite our vaguely controversial decision to post Apple and iPhone-free versions of our classic and Mobile feeds for the sanity of many over-saturated readers, the many requests for a Microsoft-free version of Engadget have still gone unfulfilled by the user base. Perhaps more surprising still, no one’s bothered to build a feed that filters out my posts.
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Slightly related, I subscribe to a few tag specific feeds for Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/tag/breaking+news/rss.xml and the Features & Announcements ones), and a couple of times a week, they seem to hiccup and repost the last 10-15 old entries. I’ve noticed the problem in both NewsGator Online and NetNewsWire (synced to NGO), so I’m not sure if it’s aggregator specific.
Is this a known issue?
Not the first time I’ve heard this, but we haven’t been able to reproduce it… will check it out.
I tried to use Pipes to just get your live blog comments ( both “factual” and “snotty” ) when you are at big events, but I could never get them to hit my phone as you wrote them. I will try again for whatever next thing you are live blogging at…
( from WWDC 2007 )
9:54AM – VIPs are chitchatting amongst themselves. Phil Schiller is gabbing with Eric “doesn’t have an iPhone” Schmidt.
10:04AM – Steve! Huge applause
10:05AM – Oh, he’s a happy one today. Look at that big grin on his face.
Liveblog content won’t work, everything posted after the break doesn’t show up in RSS.
Oh, you and your modesty! I’d be surprised if no one has made a feed with your posts exclusively.