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  Robert

  1 year ago

  so THIS is what you were hinting at. I'll have to find some time to mess with it soon...
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  http-kentbrewster.com-

  1 year ago

  Hey, this is pretty neat, Carlo. About a year ago I wrote a badge-any-feed-with-Pipes page, here:
  
  http://kentbrewster.com/badger/
  
  ... and learned a lot about how non-technical users interact with services like this. Two things:
  
  You ought to consider case-hardening it and offering it as a single-line JS include ... much of your target audience won't want to deal with putting a DIV in the body and some SCRIPT tags elsewhere.
  
  Also: have you thought about using the Pipes Fetch Feed module to automatically discover a user's feeds? Many will stumble over the difference between their profile page:
  
  http://twitter.com/kentbrew
  
  ... and the feed from their profile page:
  
  http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/26227...
  
  Congratulations; it's great to see services like this popping up!
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  http-kentbrewster.com-

  1 year ago

  Whoops, messed up the link to Case-Hardened JavaScript. Please edit my original reply and delete this one?
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  Carlo Zottmann

  1 year ago

  Thanks for the kind words and suggestions, Kent! I appreciate it. :)
  
  Yeah, an one-line JS include -- I've started working on it and made great progress. The one big stumbling block I've found is Safari ignoring the added CSS link tag. Awesomes. :/ But yes, it's definitely on my list. I've just tried to go with the "release early, release often" idea.
  
  Same thing w/ feed discovery. Pipes is a slight PITA when it comes to reliably getting feed metadata like feed title, feed generator etc. So I do this on escaloop, not with Pipes. So I'll probably end up adding it "here" instead of "there". Soon... :)
  
  bq. Whoops, messed up the link to Case-Hardened JavaScript. Please edit my original reply and delete this one?
  
  What link?
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  Jem

  1 year ago

  Hmmm....how to contact you about BetterSearch...?? Thanks.
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  Carlo Zottmann

  1 year ago

  Jem, mail me at carlo at zottmann.org.
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