Recently, I wrote about an update to RSSmeme where the developer, Benjamin Golub, had added FriendFeed as a source to track shared stores. Just tapping in to this API gave his app an instant crawl speed increase, recognition of shares would start to appear within minutes instead of hours.
I just caught a post by Benjamin Golub, the developer of RSSmeme, in which he reveals some upcoming changes to his popular service:
RSSmeme is about to be faster than ever at finding the hot news of the day. Everyone knows that FriendFeed is fast; and I’m not talking about the speed at which the site loads (which is very fast). FriendFeed is extremely quick at crawling. RSSmeme takes 7 hours to do a round trip of it’s nearly 15000 feeds but FriendFeed is able to pick up your shared items in minutes.
About a week ago, Corvida and I kicked off a plan that is now known as RSS Reset. In my original post, I said I would check back periodically and let you know how I was doing. And here we are!
In the first followup post, I listed the 40-odd subscriptions I felt could survive the cut (and that I was still interested in following). I’m not going to re-list all of them here, but let’s touch on the changes:
I already have news about the little RSS reset project that I kicked off earlier today!
Corvida has made her move over at ReadWriteWeb. Hopefully we will get some more enterprising souls to give the project a go.
Caleb Elston, the creator of Toluu, has been a strong supporter of this move. He has decided to join us and should announcing this on his blog! Welcome, Caleb! Be sure to check out his FriendFeed Room if you need help or have questions.
Also, he has hooked me up with a bunch of invites to Toluu. So if you want to experience it for yourself, please email me at phil(at)scribkin.com and I’ll shoot one off to you. See you there!
Although not exactly in the same category as above, my post was featured on TechMeme! At this point, it’s no longer front-page news, but that’s ok because I took a screenshot.
More after the break…
Tonight, I was chatting with Corvida, and the topic of RSS feed overflow came up. We were both frustrated because there was so much new (potentially great) content being produced every day, that we couldn’t keep up!
A radical new plan was hatched that we both agreed to abide by, starting today. We would dump all our RSS feeds out of Google Reader and only add new feeds based on a set of rules:
This plan will be in effect for 1 month. We will be dumping our current profiles on Toluu and will make sure it stays in sync with our new OPMLs.
In addition, I will make sure any feed I add gets sent as a tweet from Toluu and I will try to re-visit my feed list week during the month and explain any additions or changes.
I am completely open to suggestions for small, quality site feeds inside or outside the realm of social media as well as links to any google reader shared items feeds!
I’m looking forward to this excitement, both because it hopefully will make my RSS feed reading more manageable, but also because I am adding a huge social filter in to the mix. I am expecting the best reads to be more visible, while still keeping an eye on the little guy.
As I was catching up in Google Reader this morning, I noticed this item in my RSSmeme FriendFeed feed. I highlighted the new change — it now appends all Google Reader shared item notes!
I’m not sure when this was added, but I think it is very .. err, noteworthy! No pun intended.
Another bullet point on the long list called reasons why RSSmeme is awesome.
If you want to get your own custom RSSmeme FriendFeed feed, simply go here and put in your FriendFeed nickname. Then, subscribe to the resulting RSS feed.